Uchicago Official Early Action Class of 2012 Results

[phuriku]

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Phuriku: I usually find your posts informative but I have to scratch my head at this most recent post. What sort of data set are you basing this comment on - “Minorities with low stats getting in”? Stuff that you’ve read here on CC? Ppl whom you’ve met at school? Anecdotal evidence? What happened to critical inquiry at Chicago? Addressing a topic like this absolutely requires responsibility on your part to make sure that you have the evidence to back up your argument.

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<p>The problem here is that there is no evidence to judge by. You have to judge by anecdotal evidence and the people you meet, all while keeping in mind that you’re only meeting a sample of the student body.</p>

<p>I said what I said based on feel… not on hard statistics. Does anybody have the link to the acceptance thread from last year? Just look through the entries and compare them with the entries here, and I think you’ll see a great difference. Although CCers are generally not typical applicants, I think it’s fair to judge past CC results with current CC results to see patterns in admissions.</p>

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None of here, as far as I know, have been privy to discussion between Z. and Ted O’Neil. We have no information other than hearsay to address these supposed machinations on the part of Z.

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<p>Everything I’ve said makes sense from looking at past actions from Zimmer. Nearly everything he has done thus far as president has contributed to our ranking in U.S. News. For example, he said that one of his goals was to decrease the acceptance rate to 25% in less than 5 years. What purpose would such an action serve other than to increase our rank? Then does it not make sense to want to make the average incoming freshman’s SAT higher? And to make nearly all acceptances to be in the top 10% of their graduating high school class? Perhaps I should remind you of the criteria for U.S. News rankings:</p>

<p>[America’s</a> Best Colleges 2008: Undergraduate Ranking Criteria and Weights – U.S.News & World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/about/weight_brief.php]America’s”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/about/weight_brief.php)</p>

<p>15% of the ranking is based on student selectivity, 50% of this ranking is SAT/ACT scores, 40% is percentage of top 10% of graduating h.s. class, and 10% is acceptance rate.</p>

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Moreover, given that UChi is dealing with a huge increase in numbers of applicants, one would expect that they would run into similar admissions issues as those facing the more popular Ivies. So how would you deal with problem? Make the U of C less popular and go back to the days of accepting 78% of a “self-selecting” applicant pool?

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<p>I don’t see any problem with doing exactly how we’ve been doing it in past years. Admitting the students who fit the best into UChicago. These students are NOT the people with the best stats.</p>