UChicago 2017-2018 Admission's Statistic Hints

JBStillFlying
Sun, 04 Feb 2018 01:33:16 +0000

“If UChicago really, truly wants to know that they are students’ first choice and if the school truly want to be considered in the same league as the “lettered” schools, they should, as I said earlier, put on their big boy pants and go SCEA rather than paying lip service to EA and strong-arming the RD applicants – many of whom had likely applied SCEA to HYPS or perhaps applied EA to M – into switching their apps to ED2.”

Interesting thing about those EA and RD -admits last year: they probably had no more than about a 33% yield (by pretty decent guesstimates). There’s actually another way to view all that “lip service” and “strong-arming” and that would be allowing those who had a strong preference to UChicago to signal that by applying ED. It’s pretty clear that those who didn’t most likely weren’t the most interested in attending.

As to “really, truly want(ing) to know that they are students’ first choice” - not sure what someone can do more than apply ED for that. And being “considered in the same league as the ‘lettered’ schools” most likely isn’t something that UChicago is striving for. My guess is they don’t want to shoot that low.