UChicago 2017-2018 Admission's Statistic Hints

LoveTheBard
Sat, 03 Feb 2018 22:53:05 +0000

@JBStillFlying - “Bullying” was my husband’s choice of words - I said “strong-arming.”

And yes, deferring a perfectly qualified applicant that has applied EA and telling them that if they really want to be accepted, they should apply ED2 amounts to strong-arming them. Either accept the kid or don’t accept them. Do what HYPS and M do – let them choose you over other schools with all of the data at their disposal. Don’t back them into a corner, insinuating that their best (or perhaps only) chance to get in is by forsaking all others. It’s just wrong.

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.

And, while I don’t mind your snark (I’ve shown enough of my own with my “big boy pants” comment), I do think that both your analogy and #E(D)Too comment amount to a straw man.

I’d be all for getting rid of any and all ED programs. I have no problem with EA and SCEA, the power imbalance of ED in general and ED2 in particular, especially when coupled with EA deferrals.

I’d love to see something like the British system or Med school ranking systems. You are limited to 5 (maybe 10) schools that you rank in order, only one of which can be Oxford or Cambridge (or in the US, a lettered school)