Waitlisted 
Dang, 67 of the 85 decisions here were waitlists. That’s a waitlist rate of 78.8%.
I think I only saw 4 or 5 acceptances, which is quite strange for a place like CC. Maybe they’re trying to protect their yield to compete with HYPS? 
@jk1998 what does yours say?
@soph1112 yes please do 
We’re still a small sample size. I don’t think that’s particularly indicative of UChicago purposely wistlisting a lot of people to compete with HYP
I had the same letter
@blerghnn, yeah same message. Guess I was being a little optimistic haha. Good luck to everyone for the rest of their decisions --hopefully it will get better x
also waitlisted…not going to lie I’m pretty disappointed…I worked so hard on my essays
Wait listed. Yay. Well I let this be an excuse for not doing anything today so probably should be productive now. Wait listed at washu and UChicago which is not good news for Duke or Yale or Pton
@ballerina1205 same here…
@jk1998 Yeah, it’s a small sample size, but even for this, a waitlist rate of over 75% is quite strange. Especially for the CC community, the lack of acceptances here is quite discomforting.
i saw this online. Thought it might help
Advice for Waitlisted Students
We know many of you are wondering what you might be able to do after receiving a waitlist decision. Here are some (hopefully helpful) tips and bits of information I have for waitlisted students wondering “where do I go from here?”
First and foremost…
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Take a second to pause, relax, enjoy a delicious food treat, and think about something that isn’t college just for a moment. I promise: it will help!
OK, now for the facts!
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The only thing you need to do to be considered part of our waiting list is to accept your place on the waitlist through your UChicago Account. And, it’s perfectly fine if you don’t want to remain on our wait list! If you have been accepted to a college you would prefer to attend, it is OK to decline your place on the waiting list, too, and this can also be done through your UChicago account. -
We do hope to be able to admit students off of the waitlist, but do not know how many students we will be able to admit. In past years, our ability to take students from our waiting list has ranged widely, from zero to many dozens of students.
Remember, our ability to take students off of the waitlist this year is independent of our ability to do so in past years—when we know we will have more beds in our dorms than admitted students deciding to attend to fill them, we offer those places to students on our waiting list.
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Our waitlist is not ranked, meaning that no priority or placement is given to certain students on our waitlist vs. other students. You have a place in a pool of students who have been waitlisted rather than a ranked position in a line. -
We do not yet know if or when we will be able to extend offers of admission to students off of the waiting list. Therefore, it is imperative that waitlisted students accept and secure a place at a school to which you have been accepted by May 1, the national reply date for all colleges. We strongly encourage you to look carefully and thoughtfully at your options, and to find a place at a school that will be a good intellectual, social, and financial fit for you should UChicago not become an option. -
You may wish to indicate your continued interest in UChicago by emailing your regional admissions counselor. It only advised to send a brief email indicating that UChicago is still a top choice for you, and it’s ok to wait to do this—we strongly encourage you to wait, consider the other options you have as further decisions roll in, and then decide whether or not UChicago remains your top choice with knowledge of your other amazing possibilities. Submitting other additional material such as recommendation letters, additional essays, etc is not necessary, nor do we recommend doing so. -
We strongly discourage waitlisted students from visiting campus. Your likelihood of admission from the waiting list is not affected by a campus visit, and we won’t be able to offer you any additional information here that we couldn’t otherwise offer you by phone or by email. We want to encourage you and your parents to use your time, resources, and energy to visit schools to which you have been accepted, so that you can determine which of your (likely awesome!) options will be the best fit for you.
Rejected but with a an sat of 1410/2110 that was expected. Congrats to everyone who got in!
You know what Uchicago? Screw you!
Let me tell you guys a little bit about what I’ve done. I shall try not to sound arrogant but this is my life’s work and I’m freaking proud of it.
I have changed the lives of “thousands” of my Fellow LGBT brethren in my country through various ways and I made it quite clear that I would devote my entire life to uplifting my community.
U freaking Chicago waitlisted me. I guess helping people lead better lives does not count as worthy enough for Chicago.
If grades and stats are the only things that matter, Uchicago must be filled with robots and I wouldn’t wanna got there (Sat-2170, Sat 2- 780,770, GPA- 100 percentile in the entire country)
For the record I went with the Waldo prompt. I have a 35 ACT, go to a rural school in Wisconsin, etc. Portrait of a waitlisted-er.
@lauraazumah I also found that… and got excited by the “more beds than students” comment but then I realised it’s from 2 yrs ago
Here is the waitlisted applicants thread. 
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/1870807-official-university-of-chicago-2020-waitlisted-applicants-thread.html?new=1
@rahuilmars231 you have the wrong attitude about this. Instead of bashing UChicago, look at it from their perspective. They can’t accept everyone. They can accept maybe 10% of everyone who applies. Do your credentials look Chicago worthy? I can’t be the judge of that. However, there are many other candidates doing powerful things in their communities with better stats than you that were denied. And there were students that did worse qualitatively than you and were accepted. Instead of cursing Chicago, put that energy into other things. The waiting list is better than a rejection. Good luck.
Someone please find the statistics for this and last year’s regular decision statistics, especially the percentage of people wait listed!
@janevyl fingers crossed we will get in