@dcplanner I’m doubtful about the figure…100 seems to be quite low. 6/14 kids initially got in from my school last year and 3 were later taken off the waitlist. And that’s only my school. I’m not really convinced that more than 3% of the population could be attributed to one school alone.
100 would be matriculants from – not offers to people on – the waitlist. And, for a variety of reasons, “an extremely well-respected boarding school” that’s a “feeder” might be a reliable/relied-upon source for filling out the class. Did all 6 kids who were initially accepted go to U of C?
@exacademic 8 out of 9 kids who were accepted enrolled. So yeah, UChi loves my school and we love them back.
The 100 was reported on a couple of the data websites so it’s either true or they copy each others false data… I do think though that having a counselor advocating for the wait listed students personally with an admissions advisor they have a good relationship with could certainly result in the big swing you see at your school. 6 out of 14 is already a pretty skewed number of acceptances from 1 school so clearly there is a solid relationship between the schools.
Waitlisted National Merit Scholarship Finalists, this is from the admissions ofc. Please take note that if you go to a diff. school that gives a NMF award and designate that school with the NMSC by May 1st and then accept a late offer from UChicago that you will not receive the 16000+ Uchicago award that is stackable. You would have to designate UChicago as your NMSC school before May 1st to secure that award if you get off the waitlist after May 1st. I was also told that most of the waitlist offers go out in April.
D trying to figure out whether to go to Admitted Students Weekend. Did anyone that was accepted here receive news of a financial aid award? When I called the office they said it could be a month from now that we hear about this. Isn’t that rather unusual? Don’t really want to spend the $ to go to the weekend if there’s no hope of going to the school due to no/low financial aid.
Have any accepted students received anything from Chicago in the mail?
@crockmom If you have a straight forward financial situation we found that the FA offer was slightly better than the calculator. That seemed to be true across the board for the other EA acceptances. What they expected or better. @Dilan412 for EA it took about 2 weeks to get the acceptance packet with a booklet, acceptance letter, and financial aid letter. Then after that he got a number of other letters, phone calls, invites, and packages from various groups over the next few weeks.
@Skigropple No one in my family is especially knowledgeable on these types of things, so if I originally designated another college for my #1 choice for National Merit Scholarship, how would I change that/is it possible to change it?
@Stephiey Just go to https://osa.nationalmerit.org/ an on the main page that show up it should be in red “change college choice”
Stephiey – You can change. But do what Skigropple suggests.
@Skigropple Thank you! And like you said in your previous post, we have until May 1st to do this, correct?
@kaukauna Thanks!
@dcplanner and @MurphyBrown thank you so much. I’m going to take a leap of faith and get tix for Admitted Students Weekend based on NPC and I will make call to fin aid office as well.
Just fyi last year the yield from early kids was unusually low…so I don’t think direct comparisons with last year can be done.
@Dilan412 I live literally 5 miles from the school. Nothing yet.
@Dilan412 @gummybear2016 Weird, haha. I got a massive box filled with merch, multiple letters, a certificate, brochures etc. today in the mail-- and I live 4000 miles away, across an ocean!
@toofless Yup, got the letter, and packet two days ago, waiting on the merch
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We still have not received the financial aid letter. Bummer.
Does anyone know when we will be getting our waitlist decisions?