<p>UChicago has already topped Princeton over the years in most national university rankings and in some of the current world university rankings. But I am speaking specifically of admissions; endowment has no effect on admissions. Princeton had an 8.4% admit rate last year (assuming its applications didn’t drop this year). UChicago will be in the 9% range in the next few years.</p>
<p>Funny to read this article about how things have changed. This was from 1988-89 when UChicago’s admit rate dropped from 61% to 48%:</p>
<p>[Report</a> on College Admissions and Financial Aid](<a href=“http://www.uchicago.edu/about/documents/chicagorecord/11-4-99/admissions.html]Report”>http://www.uchicago.edu/about/documents/chicagorecord/11-4-99/admissions.html)</p>