stats of EA

JHS
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:14:41 +0000

[U of C acceptance rate hits record low - The Chicago Maroon](From Lance to Laundromats, band fad clasps campus wrists – Chicago Maroon)
Here’s the Maroon article from last spring that does a pretty good job of presenting the historical numbers. It doesn’t address the EA admissions rates per se, but you can see that consistently about a third of all acceptances come in the EA round. (The chart makes it look like EA acceptances were less than a third of all acceptances last year, but I think that can’t be true, and that something’s wrong with the chart. EA applications represented just under 1/3 of all applications, and no one suggested that it was harder to be accepted EA than RD last year. I’m certain EA acceptances were slightly more than 1/3 of total acceptances last year.) Four years ago, the EA acceptance percentage was about 50%; last year it was under 33%.