Slightly confused about U Chicagos's acceptence rate?

<p>Make of this data what you will.</p>

<p>Source: <a href=“College Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics”>College Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics;

<p>Rates of Retention for…</p>

<p>Yale-- 99%</p>

<p>Harvard–98%
MIT-- 98%
Stanford–98%
Columbia-- 98%</p>

<p>Chicago-- 97%
Northwestern-- 97%
Amherst-- 97%</p>

<p>WashU–96%
Swarthmore–96%</p>

<p>JHU-- 95%</p>

<p>Oberlin–91%</p>

<p>Reed–85%</p>

<p>I attempted to pick schools that are often cross-considered with Chicago.</p>