<p>Does the University of Chicago reject early action applicants or do they only defer?</p>
<p>They reject them.</p>
<p>they reject</p>
<p>I’m flabbergasted. There isn’t one reject so far. Maybe I’m just “soft rejected”.</p>
<p>i got rejected</p>
<p>hey, if you got rejected or deferred, dont be discouraged.</p>
<p>Early Action pools consist of the most competitive applicants in the country; just cuz chicago defers/rejects you doesn’t mean you dont have a shot at other great colleges.</p>
<p>oh, and to answre your question lol, yeah they do reject some ppl =/</p>
<p>@collegeftw: I thought EA pool would be weaker? Because the RD pool consists of HYPSM applicants, and if they think they can get in anyway… no need to EA.</p>
<p>Er, no, there are plenty of HYPSM applicants who EA Chicago (or Georgetown). It’s nonrestrictive, so there’s no reason not to. </p>
<p>And early pools in general tend to be stronger (athletes and legacies notwithstanding) just because to apply somewhere EA you have to have your **** together two months earlier. This tends to mean better organized students, which means more top students.</p>
<p>Harvard, Princeton don’t have early.
Yale and Stanford and Single Choice and Restrict Early Action, respectively. I’m shooting for RD Stanford and Harvard even though I was accepted EA for Chicago.
Only MIT is nonrestrictive EA.</p>
<p>Correct me if I’m wrong.</p>
<p>There aren’t very many rejects because people here tend to be a bit stronger academically and because no one really wants to post if they were rejected 
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<p>The only question is whether they rejected or deferred the majority of applicants, and I do not know the answer to that.</p>
<p>@Wolves, it is estimated that 1580 were accepted, and 1500 deferred. So I guess the rest are rejected. That’s right about half rejected. It certainly doesn’t seem that way on the results thread.</p>
<p>I hope that’s true. It seems highly unlikely though, unless CC is like entirely the top 25% of applicants</p>
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<p>I’m in this camp. Top applicants who want a better chance of an early admission than Yale/Stanford SCEA/REA offers have no reason not to try for non-restrictive EA at Chicago. Besides MIT and Caltech, which obviously don’t suit everyone’s academic strengths, it’s the only T10 university with a non-binding/non-restrictive early program.</p>
<p>Ah. So all things considered, if I were deferred, I would be at least average, if not above average in the RD pool?</p>
<p>I think that’s fair to say.</p>
<p>Of course, only the top 10% of the RD pool actually gets in.</p>
<p>@Impero: Where did you find that ~1580 were accepted and 1500 deferred? Can you provide us with the link of the source?</p>
<p>you also have to consider the notion that some rejects might be too upset and/or embarrassed to post their status/stats. therefore, we don’t see many here on CC.</p>
<p>what were your stats like iamoronam? I want to get into u of c and im a junior. Whatwere your highschool scores and gpa</p>
<p>Soccerboy, you may want to be resourceful and check out the results thread, just a few threads above this one.</p>