Hello,
There was another admitted student reception this past weekend. I went and this time I recorded the audio on my phone so I could remember exactly what Dean Nondorf said. Here is a transcript from yesterday’s reception.
Well welcome for those that I have not met, I am Jim Nondorf, Dean of Admissions and I just want to say welcome to the University of Chicago. <> This has been an incredible year for UChicago…I think its our third year in a row winning a Nobel Prize, there is just about anything you’d want to study, the latest research on the human biome, which has an interesting history, if there are any of you biome people in the group.
This is the best most amazing class we ever had <>. At least statistically speaking, you are the smartest, you are the most selective, you are the most diverse, the most whatever, you are it. We’ve had over 32000 students apply to the University this year and the admit was a little over, so 7.2%. The most selective we’ve ever been. If you were in the regular round, so if you’re like woo-ho I just got in recently, their admit rate was 4%. <> And if you were one of those students who we, in the early action round we deferred you and we came to our senses <> and admitted you in regular you had a 0.5% admit rate. <> Thank you for walking across Lake Michigan to pass the test. <>
Really you are just incredible. Your average SATs were well above 1500 this year, which is insane, so you’re very good at cheating. <> You’ve accomplished everything. You’ve formed everything. You’ve challenged everything, you name it. You’re a wonderful group of students. And I can’t thank you enough for your efforts and the time that you put into your essays. I also think that the essay prompts this year will go down in history as the best we’ve ever done. Because I laughed, I cried, it was better than at reading. Really, especially, for some reason you guys came up with some great ones, around the typos. Some of the very funniest histories and things, and you managed to stay away from the off color things… audio continued for another 10 mins
So this confirms the 7% admit rate that @Chrchill posted elsewhere. What shocked me was the extremely low admit rate for those deferred from EA.