<p>For local (midwest) applicants Northwestern, WashU and UMichigan are usually the places that UChicago is loosing some cross-admits because of perceived “no social life and all work” image and usually better financial aid / scholarships at those schools. Even UIUC gets some in-state people who were admitted to UChicago but choose to go to UIUC to save money and have a life.</p>
<p>Nationally all ivies, Stanford, MIT, Duke and JHU are typically “other places” UChicago competes against. It typically (not always) looses to most of those in cross-admits (except JHU). Exception cases are “hard-core UChicago fans” and people who are set on Economics as their major (by the way some of those later “downgrade” from Economics to Polisci or some other major because the math requirements are very high here).</p>