<p>Individuals with URM & athletic differences are not the only ones with lower “numbers” to admitted. My S was admitted while people with much higher GPA’s were not. If one reviews past posts by Libby Pearson, she goes to great lengths to explain that GPA and test scores come somewhere at the bottom of the admission considerations. Further, a scan of this and past years’ admits posted on this forum will show a great deal of variation in numbers of those admitted. No overall conclusion can be drawn except that Libby was being accurate in her description of the process. Although a little dated, I would hazard a guess that the overall process is probably not much different than this: <a href=“University of Chicago News”>University of Chicago News;
<p>(There is a little peek into what Ted O’Neill thinks of athletes in the article as well.)</p>