UChicago 2017-2018 Admission's Statistic Hints

LoveTheBard
Sun, 04 Feb 2018 01:47:29 +0000

How appropriate that Marlowe be schooling The Bard, @marlowe1 (and perhaps vice versa)

To deny that Chicago has been gaming admissions for that coveted notch up in the USNWR ranking and/or to say that ED is the same as SCEA is ludicrous. We have come a very long way since the time when UChicago refused to use the Common App and didn’t play games with EA and ED, and we’ve come an even longer way from when fun used to go there to die. And, yes, they have every right to experiment in any way they see fit, as do I have a right to criticize their experiments. Forcing a kid to make a choice without all of the available data at hand is not allowing them to be free. It’s advantaging the school at the expense of the applicant and advantaging full-pay students over those that want to compare offers.

Things could have easily gone the other way for @takacatboy’s friend, much as they did for one of my D’s classmates. Given Penn’s penchant for filling up more than half it’s class with ED applicants, this kid probably should have applied ED to Penn; he decided instead to apply SCEA to Stanford and applied RD to Penn. Ended up not getting into either,

Chicago is the perfect school for the right kid (and would be an awful school for the wrong kid. I, for one, would have hated it; my husband loved it. I believe that @takacatboy will love it there). As a friend of mine is wont to say, “That’s why they make ice cream in both chocolate and vanilla!” Ben and Jerry’s alone list 51 flavors of ice cream (and that doesn’t include frozen yogurt or their non-dairy options!)