UChicago EA Admissions Rate?

Cue7
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:23:25 +0000

JHS,

I should have been a tad more careful in word selection in my previous post, but I meant to say the respective “College of Arts & Sciences” at the schools I mention above that have them. So, I meant to say Penn’s College of Arts and Sciences, and Cornell’s College of Arts & Sciences. Dartmouth only has one college, so that’s all I had to identify. I didn’t include Brown on my list because, as you said, they receive signficantly more apps than UPenn, Cornell, etc. for their College (in comparison to the others’ College of A&S).

UPenn receives about 16K apps for their College of A&S. Check here:

[Penn Admissions: Incoming Class Profile](http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/profile/)

Penn received 22,808 apps total, and I’m assuming Wharton undergrad receives at least 4500 apps, and the other programs (Nursing, engineering, etc.) receive at least 2K apps combined.

Cornell’s College of Arts & Sciences received 16,288 apps this past year. Check here:

http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000003.pdf

Also, as you stated, Dartmouth received 17,768 apps last year, but the past two years have seen STEEP increases for Dartmouth. Go here for info on that: [TheDartmouth.com | College receives record number of applications](http://thedartmouth.com/2009/01/15/news/admissions) . This year, at least according to the early pool, numbers seem to have stabilized a bit (with early apps only up 3 percent).

You can go here for info on that: [TheDartmouth.com | Number of ED applications up 3 percent](http://thedartmouth.com/2009/11/03/news/ednumbers)

So I’m going on the assumption this year that UPenn, Cornell, and Dartmouth may see a moderate increase in applications (maybe around 5-10% or so total), but this would keep the College of Arts & Sciences and College at all of these schools in the 16K-18k range. To be fair, just in case there is more of an uptick, I should have adjusted my range to the 17K-19K range for these schools.

From all of these camps, I have not heard of early apps being up 30-40%, and the early word from Dartmouth is the bump is not nearly that significant. The alums in charge of interviewing at Chicago, though, have already stated that apps are “way up” for U of C.

In any case, I should have adjusted my scale slightly, but I don’t think my numbers were “way off base” in terms of the College of A&S at the schools that have them. I’m not including the apps sent to the Ag school, hotel school, engineering, etc. because there’s no overlap there with Chicago.

If Chicago gets 16K-17K apps this year, and Penn and Cornell have a healthy increase to say, 17,500 apps for each of their College of A&S, and Dartmouth has say, 18500 apps today, Chicago would certainly be “in the ball park” of the lower ivies this year, at least much more so now than from not terribly long ago, where Chicago would receive maybe 40% fewer apps than the colleges of these other schools. (For example, in late 90s, I believe Chicago received around 6K applications, whereas Penn, Cornell, and Dartmouth received around 10K applications for their colleges).