<p>From this:</p>
<p>O’Neill’s admissions philosophy has always reflected the character of the University. </p>
<p>“Of course, everything we have worked for in admissions, [including] our resistance to trying to seek more applications, even if they are unsuitable, just for the sake of looking better in the eyes of US News and World Report, our understanding that standardized test scores are not the honest measure of a student’s ability or soul—these are the things of which our office is proud,” he said in an e-mail interview."</p>
<p>[O?Neill</a> to leave admissions office in June ? The Chicago Maroon](<a href=“Delays keep Proof from silver screen – Chicago Maroon”>Delays keep Proof from silver screen – Chicago Maroon)</p>
<p>To This:</p>
<p>"“I doubt we’re going to see these kinds of surges year after year. I think that’s probably not realistic. I think where it will level off I can’t predict—we may go up or down in terms of applications next year, and then level off. I suppose you could say we should be able to get as many applicants as the Ivies, but I think we’ve already surpassed a number of the Ivies in application numbers,” he said.</p>
<p>Four Ivy League schools—Cornell with 40,006 applicants, Harvard with 35,022, Columbia with 33,460, and UPenn with 31,219—surpassed the College in terms of applicants. However, Brown, Dartmouth, Yale, and Princeton all received fewer applications than UChicago.</p>
<p>For Boyer, numbers aren’t the whole story.
“I’m not so concerned about the numbers as I am that we are communicating about the school and telling the kids that might consider coming here. If everyone who likes our kind of education knows about us, then I’m satisfied.”</p>
<p>Sad.</p>