<p>Accepted +20k
soooo excited. especially with my sub-par SAT scores.
Any other AA’s get accepted??</p>
<p>@azn
first of all - asian REPRESENT. haha.</p>
<p>2) ur question brought up a really great question. Chicago is a liberal arts schools, grounded in humanities education. Thus, even though in today’s day and age science is takign a big hold and forever expanding, I read somewhere that liberal arts schools wanted “scholars, future leaders, philosophers” or something like that. So maybe if you said you wanted to do philosophy instead of chemical engineering, you held a better chance? idk</p>
<p>Deferred! But going to Northwestern University so it’s K. U of C was my second choice anyway. GL everyone else.</p>
<p>and in answer to ur question, I chose political science (not very asian I know lol), and my main essay was about my interaction with American History, a subject that I really like.</p>
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<p>omg! you’re kinda crazy :)</p>
<p>For stats-crazed people, here’s an analysis given the 1580 statistic:</p>
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<li>Last year, Chicago admitted about 1670 students EA. So this year, there were 5% less admits despite an 18.5% rise in applications.</li>
<li>If Chicago admits 95% of RD applicants as well compared to last year (which is expected), then there will be 3450 total admits.</li>
<li>Assuming a projected class size of 1414 as last year, then the expected yield is 41%, in comparison to the 39% of last year.</li>
<li>If the RD application growth is 18.5% as it was in EA, then there will be approximately 23000 total applications. If 3450 total are admitted, as projected, this will constitute a 15% acceptance rate.</li>
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<p>And finally, and… DO NOT READ IF YOU WERE DEFERRED:
- This means there will be 1870 RD acceptances. Assuming that about 1500 apps were denied during the EA round (which is probably a little lower in reality), there will be 20k total apps in contention. So the RD acceptance rate will be approximately 9.4%. (This, however, is only slightly lower than last year’s RD acceptance rate of 11%.)</p>
<p>@InvisibleMonster: I try :P</p>
<p>@phuriku: No problem on the data; I am glad someone gave the effort to do the computations. Also, the stats seem in line with the discussion I’ve read on how UC had a higher than expect yield EA last year and had some issues with that.</p>
<p>@phuriku: Haha too late. I sort of knew, though, what I was in for when I got deferred. Do you know if having applied EA confers any sort of advantage in the RD round?</p>
<p>Impero: I actually do think that you will be given a slight advantage under the condition that you send in extra materials showing your interest in the school. If there is a truly qualified applicant who can contribute something to the school, and this person applies early action, then refuses to give up after being deferred, that says something about their interest in the school and their character.</p>
<p>I know a student who got deferred, waitlisted, then eventually denied. They applied the next year and got in, despite the fact that their application was virtually the same. Chicago likes determination (and love).</p>
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<p>Where did you even find them all? When I’m in the phoenix thing, it only shows just over 100 admitted students’ profiles…</p>
<p>If you go to mark your spot, you can click on any region and it gives you a list of all current profiles and a list of all who haven’t responded yet.</p>
<p>if you go to the mark your spot section and look at each country/district, there will be a list of people who have published their profiles and a number of the ones remaining to do so, all of whom were admitted. I’m guessing this is how 1580 was counted.</p>
<p>For those of you deferred and listing your stats, know that it’s really not about your SAT score and GPA. It’s about how you fit into the UChicago community and your intellectual curiosity. For UChicago, as long as your stats are excellent (but not necessarily perfect), they look mostly at your essays and recs.</p>
<p>i’m really sorry that sucks- for chicago it’s about your essay more than anything… my stats aren’t as good as yours but i worked my ass off on my essay and that, i think, is what got me in. although academics have something to do with it because they gave me a $5000 per year academic scholarship (something for which i did not apply)</p>
<p>@phuriku you said they accepted 1580 apps and denied about 1500 this EA round. Does an acceptance rate of 50% sound right to you, even in EA?</p>
<p>chloe: That figure doesn’t include the deferred apps. Basically, the reason I said there were 1580 accepted apps and 1500 denied apps was because then I could deduce that there were about 4000 deferred apps that will be included in the RD pool for consideration.</p>
<p>The acceptance rate for EA was, as mentioned earlier by originalthought, 22.7%. I deduced elsewhere that the RD acceptance rate will be ~9.4%, with the final acceptance rate for the class of 2015 being 15%.</p>
<p>maybe i didnt read close enough. chicago is a LIBERAL ARTS school? I knew that it liked liberal arts, but not so heavily. If chicago is actually liberal arts and not heavily science based i dont think i would go…</p>
<p>That’s actually really not true. UChicago is very heavily research-based. The science classes are extremely competitive and there’s so much research opps. around here, its unbelievable. Students here can very feasibly begin working with a professor in their first year. UChicago is not an engineering school, but it certainly is a science and math school. Most of the people I know are premed and there are many math/physics/bio/chem majors as well. What is true though is that the core is very important and while there are people who dislike the core (classes like Humanities/ Social sciences core, etc.), there are many future scientists who love the core (like me). And since the core is a requirement, its really not worthwhile to hate it. So while UChicago is a great research-based science school, it also requires you to read Marx and Plato, analyze texts, write papers, learn about different civilizations, and basically expand your horizons and try to understand the world a little better. So if you want to single-mindedly pursue science and only science, maybe UChicago’s not the school for you.</p>
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<p>The hard sciences are part of a liberal arts curriculum. You’re confusing liberal arts and humanities.</p>
<p>what percentage of deferred usually gets accepted in the spring?
thanks!</p>