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There is a difference between “being in the running” and likely being accepted. An applicant to Yale can have superb grades and test scores, but being “in the running” there means a 6-7% shot at admission.</p>
<p>That said, Chicago has long claimed to place little emphasis on [test</a> scores](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/2761509-post3.html]test”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/2761509-post3.html). How (or if) this will change with the departure of Ted O’Neill remains to be seen.</p>