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Originally Posted by ragnarjonsson
It’s actually shocking to see that there are only two scandinavians so far

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<p>Oh, I am Scandinavian as well (but with an English last name) and I maintain some fluency in the Swedish language.</p>

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Originally Posted by phuriku
*Remember, Chicago has had no problem in getting the best students in the past years even with a higher admit rate. For example, Chicago is in the top 5 nationally for Rhodes Scholars and is first nationally for Fulbright scholars, and creates more PhDs percentage-wise among its undergraduate students than Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.</p>

<p>If you really think they’re scared of admitting the best students for yield, you’re apparently terribly uninformed of the university’s mission. The university cares much more about getting the best students than it does about the general admission rate…</p>

<p>…There was a 10% admit rate, for Christ’s sake. Just accept that Chicago’s admissions process has become extremely selective and simultaneously rather arbitrary. This is the only way to approach the results we have seen in the past 30 hours.*

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<p>Magnificent points, phuriku. Thank you for posting.</p>