<p>Does anybody know how many applications were received at UChicago this year? I've heard numbers as high as over 30,000, which would make their acceptance rate on the same level as Ivy League schools. Can anyone confirm or deny?</p>
<p>Look at this thread:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/1105802-number-chicago-application-15ers.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/1105802-number-chicago-application-15ers.html</a></p>
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<p>So their acceptance rate was around 6.2%?</p>
<p>Uchicago has an average class size 1350, yield 36-38%, and every year Uchicago admits about 3500.
Calculation:
If following conditions are met:
Total application: 21669
Admitted: 3500
Yield:37% equals to 1350 students</p>
<p>Reference:</p>
<p><a href=“Delays keep Proof from silver screen – Chicago Maroon”>Delays keep Proof from silver screen – Chicago Maroon;
<p><a href=“From Lance to Laundromats, band fad clasps campus wrists – Chicago Maroon”>From Lance to Laundromats, band fad clasps campus wrists – Chicago Maroon;
<p>Then the acceptance rate is: 1350/37%/21669=16.8% or</p>
<p>3500/21669=16.2%</p>
<p>They are hoping their yield is higher than normal though meaning the rate will be lower than that. I think they were hoping for 15% or so a couple months ago, I don’t know what it ended up being.</p>
<p>The yield was 39% last year, up from 36% the previous year. I’m sure the admissions team was hoping for 41-42% yield this year, especially with the increase in financial aid. </p>
<p>So 1350/.41 = 3293 admitted at most. With 21,669 applications, this means admissions rate is 15.2%.</p>
<p>More meaningful, IMO, would be a breakdown of EA and RD acceptance rates.</p>
<p>Pardon me if I’m wrong, but isn’t there a difference between acceptance and admittance?</p>
<p>There should be, but people use them interchangeably. What you (and I) think “admittance” should mean is called “enrollment” if you want to use the term that is both precise and conventional. </p>
<p>So we say that colleges accept or admit students, and then some percentage of those students enroll, and those are the ones who actually attend the college. “Acceptance rate” and “admission rate” invariably mean the same thing. Sometimes, though, colleges will use the term “admitted class” to mean the same thing as “enrolled class”, but I think the latter is gaining ground as the preferred term.</p>
<p>So what I’m trying to get at is that people are confusing the number of students accepted with the number of students actually enrolled.</p>
<p>There may be some people who are so confused, but there is no evidence above that this confusion is notable. But if you are satisfied with an existence proof, comrade, then the proof is trivial.</p>