<p>I would honestly say at this point, after seeing the RD decisions threads for Wash U and UChicago, that their admissions difficulty for REGULAR decision (not early–ED to Wash U is easier than ED to say, Cornell) is on par with the lower Ivies (i.e. Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, UPenn). In fact, a school like Dartmouth probably takes a higher proportion of underqualified people than Chicago does, because Dartmouth does so much athletic recruiting (Chicago doesn’t strike me as a school that does very much athletic recruiting at all… I know they do some, but not as much as the Ivies it seems).</p>