UChicago EA Admissions Rate?

phuriku
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:49:23 +0000

It’s likely the difference between 1 and 5 being admitted and 1 and 4 being admitted, so I don’t know why everyone is freaking out.

But let us sort this out logically, as you all should be doing as prospective applicants to a university where you will be doing a lot of logical reasoning. Let us ask ourselves, what is Nondorf’s goal? The answer to this is probably to lower the admissions rate, but also to gain marginally better students. As for the former, not only must the number of applications be increased, but the yield must also remain the same or become better. What is really bad for yield is admitting a lot of students who are not eager to attend Chicago or applied ED somewhere else. These things may often be seen through one’s essays, and there’s also the question on the application as to why the applicant wants to attend Chicago. If a non-enthusiastic response is given, that is a sign that the applicant should be rejected or waitlisted, since he may be a detriment to high yield. Now, many of the “new” applicants are probably not ones who would fit at Chicago anyway and will likely be rejected, at least if Nondorf is smart about yield, and according to his history, he is.

In other words: if you really want to attend the university, your chances at admission probably won’t be that different from last year. So take a deep breath, and go do something that will distract yourself from the admittedly extremely stressful admissions process.