<p>has anyone gotten their acceptance yet? Also, where do you live? Do they mail first, email first, or put it on your account first?</p>
<p>The decisions will be put online and mailed on the same day, though, obviously, snail-mail decisions will take few days to reach you. No one has received their decisions yet as tehy have not been released. :P</p>
<p>Did anyone call? What’s the most probable date (sorry, i’m lagging a few pages)?</p>
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<p>what day/time will the decisions be released?</p>
<p>lololol Hatrick just made MY day</p>
<p>C’mon, people. Read the threads. No one knows when decisions will be released. Current speculation + the fact that the admissions office is closing early tomorrow –> belief that we will get our decisions then, at 3 central, I believe.</p>
<p>As for calling, the admissions people just say that they don’t know or some other wishy-washy answer. More indicative of the fact that they don’t want to tell us, which is kind of baffling, since I don’t know what else it does besides aggravate people.</p>
<p>Has anyone considered they might not be completely done? With 6,000 applicants, I’m sure they needed to rework their plan of attack.</p>
<p>^ ^ ^ That wouldn’t explain why they added an additional early closing day on the 15th. If they were behind, I can’t imagine them deciding to take extra time off :P</p>
<p>There are several schools with more applicants than the U of Chicago and they meet the before-December 15th deadline just fine.</p>
<p>Any predictions on this year’s acceptance rate with so many applicants?</p>
<p>Nah, I doubt admissions decisions are actively being made at the moment. They’re probably just waiting for something before releasing them. ED withdrawals perhaps?</p>
<p>@mifune: Assuming Chicago doesn’t drastically change the number of students it accepts, given the increase in applications compared to last year, the acceptance rate should hang around 19-20%.</p>
<p>Mifune, those schools (Stanford, Yale, etc.) are used to having so many applicants while U of Chicago certainly isn’t. I’m fairly certain that they’re done making decisions (for the reasons that evertheoptimist stated), but I would not rule out the possibility that they’re not completely done yet. As for the acceptance rate, I’m speculating something within the range of 17-24%. I want to say that it’s going to be on the lower end of that range (but I’m hoping that it isn’t!) because Grace said that they are predicting an increase in RD applications from previous years and the number of students that they need to make a class hasn’t risen at all from last year. However, I assume we just have to wait and find out.</p>
<p>^What a poor year to apply! Well I guess in 21 hours or so we will know.</p>
<p>Chicago’s EA acceptance rate a few years ago was nearly 50%.</p>
<p>^Regardless, it also means that the Class of 2014 will be the strongest and most diverse ever. You’d be grateful for that at the other end of this if you were accepted.</p>
<p>You are absolutely correct. Perhaps Chicago will move up the rankings and join the Penn-Stanford-MIT-Caltech group due to its increase in selectivity. That seems to be its holding point when it comes to US News.</p>
<p>Do you guys think the quality of applicants has increased with the quantity. Could it just be due to the common app and heavy advertisement taken on the the University?</p>
<p>Let us hope that it’s the latter.</p>
<p>^ general tendency: bigger pool of applicants -> bigger # of qualified applicants, I guess</p>
<p>My friend’s mom called admissions today… they said that decisions would be released sometime this week, so like others on this thread, I’m calling it tomorrow because of the early closing.</p>