<p>ohiomom, there’s a misconception on this thread, started by persons that either can’t read or are hyper-sensitive to any type of non gushing commentary about uchi. i never said that attending any particular institution would be determinative of success. There are very successful people who graduated from uchi as there are burnouts from the ivys. the original poster was wondering if he could get into uchi and i said that his chances were good since uchi accepted 40% of their applications. a couple of posters took that as a slight even though that is the number on all guidebooks. they then felt compelled to come up with scenarios such as if uchi doubled their applications, then their admits would be much lower, really ridiculous stuff, which would put uchi in a better light. These people should be more concerned with other threads on this forum that deals with the safety of the areas surrounding uchi and the overall unfriendliness of the student body than whether uchi accepts 40% of their applicants. you are correct, uchi is not for everybody, hence their low yield. i would also take the words of the parents at the reception with a grain of salt. what do you really expect them to say? that they were stuck with uchi because they got turned down by, say, dartmouth? people do get defensive about their child and i understand that. the only reliable indicator is the yield which would give a better indication of first choice or safety. another poster stated that amherst has a 39% yield, a little bit higher than uchi. what does that indicate? that amherst is also a safety school, for the same applicants that use uchi as a safety school. does that diminish the prestige of amherst? i think not, so i just don’t understand why uchi people are so uptight. that same previous poster also tried to mislead by stating the williams yield was equally low, but in actuality it was close to 50%. thus williams (for whatever reason) is usually a real first choice school. the numbers don’t lie.</p>