<p>My S got a letter in the mail today stating they would not be able to offer him a spot this year for the class of 2012. I didn't know if they are done pulling from the wait list, but thought I'd throw this out there as an FYI.</p>
<p>He is totally excited about the school he had committed to and sent a deposit but it is kind of nice to have closure.</p>
<p>Good luck to anyone else on the UChicago list.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info-- I just finished reading Libby's post to the blog about it:</p>
<p>Chicago's</a> Uncommon Application: New developments with the waiting list</p>
<p>So it sounds like a few (how many is a "few?" Math majors, get on it!) students will be offered a chance to stay on the summer waitlist, and everybody else will be told that they will no longer need to wait. I think that's a great policy-- if you're let go from the waitlist, you can go to the school you deposited to with excitement and security, and if you're moved to the summer waitlist, you know that the admissions office really, really, really looked at your file carefully and recognized your potential to be in our class.</p>
<p>bbkitty, you also remind me that the most important part of this whole process (from the satisfaction with your college experience point of view) is that you go to the school you deposited to excited and open. You can always complain about how your college stinks, but it's much harder (and more rewarding) to realize how awesome the people you've met are, how interesting your classes are, etc.</p>
<p>And just remember, while you might be really disappointed about not coming to Chicago, I can promise you that there are students here who are equally disappointed about not getting in somewhere else.</p>
<p>They over-admitted this year by way too much. I saw a figure like 1350? It was supposed to be closer to 1100.</p>
<p>Things will go wild next year. Say they over-enroll this year. Chicago gets another bump in US news come August to like 7th-8th (very likely) and then adopts the Common Application. Consequently, more applicants while having to adjust downwards next year's class size, all while still not knowing how much the yield will go up.</p>
<p>I'm just confused how the university is going to survive with so many students. I mean, we're overcrowded as it is. AND they're trying to boost the figure of students in housing to 75%. AND they have to fit more first-years in the dorms, a task they could barely do LAST YEAR, having to put people into Blackstone. It was really unwise to admit so many students, even though we admitted less than the year before.</p>
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<p>Well, I wouldn't say it's very likely, or even likely. I think it'll probably keep its 9th rank. If we do get a boost, it's going to be absolute chaos.</p>
<p>phuriku, I don't know where you got that 1,100 figure, but Chicago hasn't had a class that small in many years. I think the target now is 1,300. Maybe 1,250. </p>
<p>As for boosting the percentage of students in housing to 75%, that would take construction of another couple dorms the size of the as-yet-uncompleted new one. That may be a long-term goal, but it's not happening before you get your PhD. It's probably not happening before you get tenure.</p>
<p>I posted this earlier on the waitlist success stories thread </p>
<p>My son's friend was offered a spot on the extended waitlist, with the same caveats mentioned in Libby's blog.</p>
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phuriku, I don't know where you got that 1,100 figure, but Chicago hasn't had a class that small in many years. I think the target now is 1,300. Maybe 1,250.
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<p>It was a (perhaps inaccurate) estimate that compensated for the fact that the university has over-admitted for the past few years and significantly over-admitted last year with 1300 matriculants.</p>
<p>If we had to move first-years into Blackstone last year, and the graduating class has approximately 1200 students, then, assuming the percentage of students in housing is fairly static, the university will have to, in addition to repeating the action of moving students into Blackstone last year, provide housing for an extra 150 students. My estimate was too low since I assumed that a decent number had to be accommodated in Blackstone when realistically, only 20 or so students maximum would have had to move there. So my estimate should've been 1180 or so.</p>
<p>There may, of course, be factors that I haven't put into consideration.</p>
<p>Chicago</a> Maroon | Admissions yield for 2012 hits 39 percent</p>
<p>I've been placed on the summer waitlist. All the letter says about amounts is that they "propose that * remain on a relatively short summer waiting list which [their] office plans to keep in force through the middle of the summer."</p>
<p>So I went from
Deferred --> Waitlisted --> Summer Waitlist</p>
<p>UChicago is really making we work for any chance of an acceptance! But I'm not going to lie, it feels pretty good that they liked me enough to keep me on the "relatively short" waitlist. I guess it means I was sort of close to being accepted (or at least that's what my ego thinks!)</p>
<p>You're right, phuriku, about 1,300 being too many, but I think 1,250 is the number they're shooting for. They wouldn't have to balance out last year's overadmission completely, because they lose students (transfers, drop-outs), and students move off campus (a number they know pretty precisely now), and they can admit fewer transfers. But you are probably right that if 1,350 students show up in September, there will be a lot of forced triples in the Shoreland.</p>
<p>On the other hand, some of those 1,350 students are going to be going to Harvard, Princeton, Duke, etc. We don't know how many are actually going to show up. (My son was supposed to be in a forced triple this year, but one of the kids simply never arrived.)</p>
<p>TheIndividual-- I know it means that the admissions committee has spend lots more time talking about you than they did talking about me.</p>
<p>If it makes people feel any better, I have a lot of good friends (real life good friends, not just people who have talked to me a lot over CC) who were also waitlisted, and it's been an angsty, annoying process for me too! Like I've said before, though, the University of Chicago-waitlist pool is a really cool one, and those kids are scattering to the winds to rock out at other colleges. I won't have the opportunity to go to school with them and learn from them.</p>
<p>A "summer melt" is usually expected... a student says he's coming back and tranfers, leaving an empty bed in housing; a student takes a year off or defers a year and her seat is left wide open. Students moving off-campus, graduating early, going abroad, etc. means that there's some deal of wiggle room... it also probably accounts for why I've seen all sorts of different "official" enrollment numbers.</p>
<p>Do I have any fellow summer waitlistees on CC? I would assume there would be at least 100 or so, considering the original wait list was 1000+.</p>
<p>Is a summer waitlist usually used, or is it just b/c of the chaotic admissions this year?
Does that go for other schools as well? Should we expect other schools to make use of a summer waitlist?</p>
<p>Summer waitlists are typically maintained as a hedge against summer melt off. That is, those who have sent in a deposit, but for some reason, perhaps getting admitted to another school, decide not to attend.</p>
<p>I'm here on the summer wait list with you, TheIndividual. I have no idea how many they left on the list though; "a few" can be 10 or 100.</p>
<p>my son is an admitted student but he may attend an elite LAC if he gets off their waitlist. He loves Chicago but may go elsewhere if the FA is better. He knows he may be waiting until August to hear from the LAC. Most schools have orientation in mid to late August but Chicago's in in September so I imagine that there will be some people getting off Chicago's waitlist in August. Good luck to everyone.</p>
<p>Waitlist limbo until August? Only mighty generous FA indeed would make it worth it.</p>
<p>I do not think that the "life of the mind" thing is worth an extra 5- 10K per year. My son plans some graduate study, maybe law, and that will add another 150k to his education financing. I am just finishing up my med school loans and I am 55 years old. I don't want to strap him with as much debt as I took on.</p>
<p>My D was on the waitlist, but has not heard anything whether she's on the summer list or not at all. Has everyone gotten a response from them one way or the other? </p>
<p>Thankfully, she's really starting to get excited about the school she enrolled in!</p>