UChicago remains an outlier

marlowe1
Sat, 05 Aug 2023 14:08:34 +0000

These tables shows another significant difference between Chicago and its ivy-plus peers. If we pull out the data from Figure A.4 (Attendance rates) and place it beside the data from Figure A.6 (Application rates) for this highest category of the super-rich, we see that while all the schools boost these applicants by their admissions policies, Chicago does this least of all. To see the total picture requires putting the tables together.

School Apps Attendees Boost
Dartmouth 1.9x 3.3x 2.3x
Duke 1.5x 3.3x 2.2x
Penn 1.3x 3.2x 2.5x
Brown 1.4x 2.6x 1.9x
Yale 1.3x 2.9x 2.2x
Harvard 1.2x 2.3x 1.9x
Stanford 1.1x 3.4x 3.1x
Princeton 1.1x 1.9x 1.7x
Cornell 1.1x 1.7x 1.5x
Columbia 1.0x 2.3x 2.3x
MIT 0.7x 1.1x 1.6x
Chicago 0.8x 1.0x 1.25x

I conclude that you have to give the Chicago Admissions office some credit for not running after the super-rich. They are being admitted in roughly the proportion they deserve to be on the basis of their academic qualifications. My previous speculations about the lack of interest this demographic would have in Chicago are therefore only partly correct; it must be equally the case that the school itself isn’t interested in applicants just because they’re rich. Bravo, Jim Nondorf.