<p>You really cannot compare Chicago to most of its “competitors.”
We found the admissions staff to be extremely honest about the character of the school. Unlike other places, it does not try to be all things to all applicants and does not make the decision to apply an easy one by using the uncommon app. If UC used the common app. (some schools do not even have supps) it would undoubtedly increase its applicant pool by if not double or triple it. Moreover, everyone in the educational stratosphere knows that Chicago is a first rate, very challenging, intellectual place. I don’t think they care all that much about their rankings and I don’t think that an applicant who is so conventional that their decision where to attend is driven by artifical
rankings or the opinions of the avg. guy is a Chicago kind of person anyway.</p>