<p>what are the chances they will accept more than one student from my school? i know the other five applicants very well and we've all been through the same classes, have nearly identical grades/scores, are all strong writers, etc. will the fact that we're from the same small town/school hurt the chances of more than one being accepted?</p>
<p>According to their blog, it doesn't matter if multiple people apply from the same school. I hope they are telling the truth, and both me and a good friend of mine applied EA, although we have drastically different stats, I hope we both get in.</p>
<p>19 people applied to duke from my school last year, and our class size was 60. I don't know if chicago's policy is the same but i don't think they really care who else applies from your school.</p>
<p>If you're qualified, you're qualified. The only reason having those other UChicago apps from your school is intimidating is because you can put a face to those "competing" apps.</p>
<p>Depending on the quality of your high school and its location (i.e. is it in the Chicago burbs?) six apps might be normal and even expected from your school. My high school (elite NYC school) had about six or seven EA apps and all were admits. We consistently admit a lot of students who apply, and they're often the strongest students in the class (not that many apply to Chicago in comparison to other elite east coast schools) and we have had more and more attending every year. I'm sure the admissions office is tickled to have us, no matter that we are all from the same high school and we don't particularly fill any sort of diversity quotient. We're rich kids from New York City.</p>
<p>For your own sanity, though, don't think too much about you and the other applicants. If all of you are admitted, that's wonderful, but I can tell you that being admitted while your very good friend is deferred is almost not as fun as being deferred. Just remember that the process is no longer under your control.</p>
<p>i'm the only one in my school to do UChicago EA!!!!!!!</p>
<p>heck, I think if i get in, I'll be the first in a decade to go there...</p>
<p>We send a lot to Brown and Princeton; and all our athletes go to harvard lol..</p>
<p>lookingforward: i hope they're telling the truth as well</p>
<p>CNI: 19 out of 60 all applied to duke? how many of those 19 were admitted?? yikes, here i am worried about 6...lol</p>
<p>unalove: i'm not from the chicago burbs..more like small town in tennessee. 6 apps isn't normal for my school at all...most students from my school go to state universities and maybe vanderbilt. and youre right..the process really is out of my control =</p>
<p>physicphun1: good luck with chicago! i hope EA works for all of us =)</p>
<p>all 3 people from my school were accepted early</p>
<p>9 were accepted. I live in SC, so that may explain how 9 got in.</p>
<p>Wow, you guys must have amazing schools. We've got about 7 people (10 at the very most) applying to top 20 schools (I'm the only Chicago) out of a class of 515, and that's a larger number than usual.</p>
<p>Don't worry, boatloads of people from many schools I know apply/get into Chicago. I think chicago is really one of those schools that will accept all people they like rather than only 1 or 2 per school. While we're not out in Tennessee, I think it should only -help- you that you aren't from NYC/NJ/VA/MD etc.</p>
<p>geographical location is, according to the college board, not considered for Chicago applicants, so it wouldn't matter where in the country you are from. I'm inclined to believe that.</p>
<p>Only me and one other person from my school applied EA. I'm worried about it only because our grades are pretty similar, and we got recs from the same teachers. </p>
<p>Does anybody know if they separate applications by school before reading them? Because if they don't, it's pretty likely they won't even remember whose applied from which school. It seems like it might be a hassle to separate them by school, but on the other hand, they would only have to look at a school's profile once.</p>
<p>I sort of hope they don't, in case our recs are similar.</p>
<p>Ha, esentman, I understand your worries.</p>
<p>5 kids from my school applied early, and 2 of the kids that applied asked the same teachers I did for recommendations. Oh, I forgot to mention, they're both in all my classes and we're all involved in pretty much the same extracurricular activities at school. </p>
<p>yikesaroo.</p>
<p>Last year we had about 15 early applicants to Chicago. I think that number increased to around 25/30 this year.</p>
<p>Universities are willing to take on several candidates in a single year from a strong high school (see here). However, if you look into the some of the more academic literature on the matter, their clearly is some bias at most schools against admitting huge numbers from the same institutions (Georgetown is a notable exception, actively seeking to go deep into its feeder student body). The reality is, it is better to be the golden credential student from Missoula, Montana than from New York City. </p>
<p>That being said, students from big name high schools tend to do better than the general admitted pool in terms of performance once they are in college, other things equal. Its not just that good students cluster at certain preparatory schools after all, but particularly at the high school level, curricula, teachers and culture are often a major influence in forging young talent. There is a very steep acclimation process that big fish in a small pond have to go through in their freshmen year that someone from Stuyvesant or the like does not.</p>
<p>Wow very nice post</p>
<p>I was the only one in my school to apply EA...I know that one other girl will probably apply, but that's it.</p>
<p>However, I'm in a class of under 100, so this makes sense.</p>
<p>I'm the only one in my school applying EA to UChicago, and probably the only one applying to UChicago, period. Not many people from our school apply to the top schools.</p>
<p>^ Whoo. Small rural public school power. \m/</p>