<p>JHS, thanks for bringing that portion up too. Chicago has no way of roping kids into it, and a lot of students who would have applied to Chicago ED if the option was available try their luck at other schools and get in. I’m proud of Chicago for offering EA instead of ED, but at the same time, you’ll have kids comparing offers from Swarthmore, Princeton, Harvard, MIT, Yale etc., ie. the schools that offer a similar experience to Chicago but in different packaging.</p>
<p>There are, though, more than a handful of students (I’m one of them, for instance) who apply to Chicago EA and call it a day. Chicago was by far and away my first choice, except for one week in November in which I thought that a smaller, closer-to-home school would have been better for me (this school would have been Colgate). Once I got in, and once I settled my feelings about leaving home and my family, I was golden.</p>