UChicago remains an outlier

marlowe1
Sat, 05 Aug 2023 18:32:56 +0000

Penn also has ED2 [see correction below]and yet the super-rich are represented there at 3.2 times the norm. And four of the colleges in the 2nd-tier group (Wustl, JHU, Emory and Vanderbilt) have ED2 and also have much greater representation than Chicago.

it’s hard for me to see how there could be much of a connection, but, if anything, you’d assume that the super-rich, being immune from financial pressures, would be more likely to take the ED option, either 1 or 2, wherever they can. Anyhow, that is a point always made in discussions of ED generally by those who don’t like it at Chicago. It has even been suggested that it’s a covert tool especially designed to capture wealthy kids. The plain figures above refute any such suggestion for Chicago, whatever the effects or motives may be elsewhere.

Correction: as pointed out below (thanks, @momofboiler1 ) there’s only ED1 at Penn. My mistake; it was included in a list purporting to show schools offering ED2. I believe the other schools named above do offer it.