@Bluebrry Sure, I was calling one last time to confirm but the people in the office at UChicago still aren’t able to disclose anything as specific as people’s regional AOs’ emails described here.
I doubt stats are important just because of the type of school WashU is (bit more than half UChicago’s yield though a great institution). If you want a real shot at coming off, you need to tell them the magic words, “I will definitely enroll if accepted”. I told them that and gave them an second semester update on the competitions I’m doing (National Chem Olympiad, PACE NSC tournament) and my summer internship at a biotechnology company.
My SAT was 2350 and my cumulative unweighted is 3.78, upwards trend with 5 APs this year. Hope that helps! If not, you can message me.
Then why are you still calling UChicago admissions? Sounds like, having told WUSTL that, and been taken off the waitlist subsequently, you are done, done, done.
Because… the poster said they were the magic words. which means that they can magically change from I will definitely enroll if accepted to I will probably enroll if accepted**
There is a difference between playing a ‘game’ and integrity. I would not let my child renege on a “I will definitely enroll if accepted” pledge. And in that I would include any shenanigan that involved enrolling, paying a deposit, then staying on another waitlist with the intent to attend the second school if accepted.
@weiba1014 thats for sure. i didn’t get a single response from uchicago when i sent them my two updates and my friend got a response in last week saying that they wouldn’t know whether they would be going to the WL until may 1 when in fact they had been contacting WLers all april…there’s been so little transparency from the beginning.
Sometimes I wish the Universities did this the way medical schools did it. You give your ranked preferences, then colleges do a match. You only get one offer from one single medical school. Would make this so much easier on everybody.
@jpa0115 I feel you. @ihs76 The schools started the game first so don’t blame our kids who already got hurt so much by those non-sense games! Please read " Art of War by Sunzi" . “all is fair in the game(war)”. At the first place, the school should not even ask the stupid question:" are you going to attend if accepted?? " . just simply accept the qualified student in order. Because they play games to protect their yield numbers. How can you blame the students saying half sentence: " I definitely will enroll if accepted " just hide another half sentence " if I am still at the same situation–no better place to go" .
UChicago and most other top private not-for-profit schools lose money educating every student. According to the IPEDS data, UChicago spends $92,382 every year on each student, clearly their COA is lower than that. Of that $66,200 is spent on instruction. So 71% of cost is dedicated to teaching related activities. Yale on the other hand only spends 64% of its total costs per student on Instruction, Princeton only 44% and Harvard 49%. UChicago only spends 6.5% on Operations and maintenance whereas Princeton spends 18%.
So its not as if Chicago is spending ungodly amounts of money on “expensive dorms” and shafting its students. Just saying…
@VeryLuckyParent@ihs76 This is not a “shenanigan”. All institutions with wait lists advise you to deposit before May 1st so you will still have an institution to attend in case things don’t work out. You get off the wait list at an institution you want to attend and you’ll lose your deposit. This happens all the time, especially with “summer melt”. I trust that you understand that. I called on Friday and got off Wednesday, as I mentioned a few posts ago.
There is a difference between enrolling and depositing.
Does anyone know if there’s still any hope left for getting in off the waitlist with a gap year?
I’m considering sending my reader an email saying I’m willing to take a gap year.
Also, I’ve been scrolling around trying to read some of the post and it looks like the university has been telling people different things (the waitlist is closed/open/(not) going to be used) – just speculating but do you think this might be because of regional differences? As in, the U takes a certain number off the Illinois waitlisted and then turns to the New York waitlisted?
@biochemnerd123 According to last year’s thread (there was a ton of conflicted information as well) gap year acceptances went out until around the 9th and then on the 12th there was a mass email letting go of the majority of students on the WL while keeping a small number for the extended WL and then there were acceptances offered as late as mid-June. It does look like they went to the gap year option a week earlier than last year, so the yield must be super high…
I might try a gap year email. As long as they haven’t denied me, I’m not giving up lol. At least I’ve committed somewhere else and I’m okay with going there, but I don’t want to give up. They’re still my number 1 choice and I did say I would do anything to get in in my LOCI (hope that didn’t sound too desperate).
@MohTamer No guaranteed transfer and if you take a gap year and take classes they probably will not give you transfer credit either. They only give transfer credit for classes that match up pretty precisely with their offerings. My son came in with 4 classes and got no credit. This was fine because we weren’t counting on credit and he would have taken the classes anyway because he was interested in taking computer science and math beyond AP but their policy was much stricter than other schools.
Would it help if my high school counselor were to call my regional admissions officer about my interest in attending UChicago, whether it’d be matriculating this year or taking a gap year? Or do you guys think it wouldn’t really change anything other than possibly knowing my status early?
