<p>or absolutely a horrible one? discuss, post your predictions/rationale, etc. etc.</p>
<p>Perhaps, if they have too many cross-admits with HYPSMC, they will end up taking a ton off the waitlist… I personally would go to one of those schools over UofC if admitted, but I’m not speaking for everyone, and could be entirely incorrect. Anyways, it’s all luck once you’re on the waitlist, and if you were waitlisted and plan on taking a spot on the list, best of luck to you!</p>
<p>I think it’ll be a better one.</p>
<p>a) the economy continuing to suck; exacerbating this is Chicago’s pretty mediocre aid program
b) larger amount of HYPMS cross-admits</p>
<p>But it’s impossible to say for sure. This year has been a strange one.</p>
<p>I predictit will also be a better one. Not only does Chicago’s aid program suck, but I feel like Chicago is starting to accept more “academic superstars” with less intellectual passion and more amazing stats. This leads, obviously, to more cross-admits. Furthermore, with a 42% increase in applications, there’s no method of predicting the yield. Some guy in another thread said it very nicely: “All bets are off.”</p>
<p>I actually think it won’t be that great. While I agree that the economy blows and that there will be a larger amount of HYPSM cross-admits, Chicago’s appeal over its peers is increasing and the 42% increase in apps not only resulted in a larger amount of HYPSM cross-admits but a lot of waitlists with great numbers. For example, ppl who got into Caltech, top Ivies (likelies, not ED obviously) got waitlisted at Chicago from my school which means that the adcoms are trying their best to look for fit and increase their yield (which is Nondorf’s primary objective btw, not lowering the admissions rate). Thus there will be a large waitlist and while they will probably take more off it than usual (because they might have been conservative with the dramatic shift in applications, worried about overenrollment, etc), your chances aren’t necessarily better because the size of the waitlist could be huge.</p>
<p>Either way, don’t count on getting off the waitlist b/c I think I saw somewhere that most years they accept about 5-15 ppl off the waitlist? Not sure about it, but you can just google this.</p>
<p>Regardless of what the college admissions world is right now, UChicago definitely won’t take more than 150 waitlisters. And I’m being very very very generous with that number. That would be more than 10% of the incoming freshman class for heaven’s sake. Even if they did take 150 waitlisters, there are so many of them that the odds of any one person getting picked are slim. But like someone said earlier, all bets ARE off.</p>