I am so anxious for Wednesday I can barely focus to study for finals AHHHH!
Same!!!
@AnxiousDad2024 I think students are making choices about where to play their ED card. Lot of the information coming out of the Harvard trial must have educated parents and students about what is really going on at some of these colleges and what their chances really are and they don’t want to throw their ED card away anymore at schools where their ED/SCEA chances aren’t really that different from regular for unhooked kids. Applications being up at Brown and Cornell makes perfect sense to me, because these were probably the two most under appreciated schools in the Ivy league and had higher admit rates for a while. Applicants may be giving them a very hard look now. They have the Ivy cachet but odds are slightly better than the other Ivy’s (slightly, still very hard to get into)
2 days, I am so nervous!!!
Good luck everyone!
does anyone know what the admit rate is for ED/EA?
I tried looking but couldn’t find anything.
42 hours and 4 mintues to go! may the gods bless my daughter.
UChicago does not publish admit rate by admission pool. Most speculators believe that the EA admit rate is lower, perhaps significantly so. Last year the combined early admission rate was only 7%, and the combined ED2/RD (not including deferrals) was likely closer to 5%. No matter how those rates translate into binding admission vs non-binding, they are still going to be pretty low.
@RobertBaratheon As the Harvard trial showed, looking at “Average Admit rates” provides little or no insight into an applicant’s chances unless you know which pool you belong to and know the admit rate for that pool. Different pools have different probabilities of admission. I am assuming it will be similar at Chicago. For an unhooked applicant like me, applying ED, the admit probability may be 15% or even lower. For a legacy kid with my same profile, the admit rate might be 50% or more and so on (pure speculation, based on what Harvard does and then assuming Chicago is probably more friendly than Harvard to its legacy applicants in an effort to cultivate its community). Public school vs private may be different. Feeder school vs non feeder may be different. It’s all very hard to tell. We all find out tomorrow 
It’s so funny to think about how future UChicago applicants will look at our discussion and feel the same amount of stress. Good Luck to all of us and to future applicants as well!
Hey Guys. Does anyone know the exact time for the decisions? Like 7Pm EST? Thank you!
They said late afternoon in their tweet, so I’m going to assume 4-5pm CT or 5-6pm ET, though I’m still probably going to check my email every 15min throughout the day.
I’m a applicant who is currently on ED1 now for this freaking hard but amazing school. and Yes lets stress together.
so true, me too. I am scared.
I’m so nervous agh!
In less than 24 hours, we shall know. . . So nervous. Best of luck to everyone! Hope at least some of us get to meet at UChicago one day!
I will be very surprised if UChicago accepts my son EA, even though their middle 50% class stats (ACT 33-35) are lower than the other two schools he was admitted to: Caltech (35-36) and MIT (34-36).
Chance me?
Applied EA.
GPA uw: 96.16 (we dont go on a 4.0 scale)
SAT: 1560
took AP: World (5), Lang (5), Bio (5), Chem (4), US (4)
currently taking AP calc BC, Macro, Gov, and Psych as well as a dual enrollment college class
EC’s:
-president of my region (which spans across the state) for my youth group. previously was the social action chair on regional board for this youth group
-part-time job since sophomore year
-soccer for many years, captain of JV
-played in high school wind ensemble since 8th grade, first chair in ensemble and orchestra
-camp counselor over the summer
-secretary of my class
-secretary of GirlUp
-photographer for yearbook club
-started a Science club this year
Your resume seems stronger then mine ?♂️