<p>What are the admissions statistics for Early Action (ie: Admit Rate, SAT Score, etc.)?</p>
<p>And on a side note, how important is it to have an interview at UChicago. I live in NJ so it may be difficult to arrange an interview, but I was just wondering how advantageous the interview is.</p>
<p>I'd respond to this in my own words, but I don't think I have any more to add than what our resident expert idad has already said in this</a> post:</p>
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The numbers came from the Maroon.
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The College saw a rise in the number of Early Action applications to 3,068—an increase of 11 percent from last year. Of those applicants, 1,385, or 40 percent of those who applied early, were accepted. Only 26 percent of those who applied regular decision, along with those who had been deferred from early decision, were given offers to attend the U of C.</p>
<p>Actually, if one includes those who were deferred EA and later admitted, those admitted from the EA pool rises, and those admitted from the RD pool declines.</p>
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<p>Like a lot of other applicants, I requested an interview but never got contacted, and I was accepted anyway. From what I've read, the important thing is that you actually request the interview; whether you end up getting one is up to fate, and in all honesty, it's not designed to hurt.</p>
<p>Just to be a little more precise, since I studied those numbers carefully in the exchange from which the above quote was taken:</p>
<p>It's not completely clear, but it looks like 1,385 (45%) of the Early Action applicants were accepted either Early Action or Regular Decision. The Early Action acceptees were probably around 1,230 -- i.e., 40%, a number the Admissions Office used repeatedly. If that's the case, then the acceptance rate on Regular Decision applicants -- without counting deferred EAs -- was about 31%. The only accurate description of the 26% figure (which the Admissions Office also uses) is the admission percentage for applications other than those accepted Early Action.</p>
<p>As far as I know, Chicago (like almost everywhere else) doesn't report separately the stats of its Early Action admittees, or even the stats of its admittees as a group, just those of the class that actually shows up. The stats of those offered admission are probably on average somewhat higher than those of the enrolled class. Early Action acceptances are about 1/3 of the total acceptances, so it would be surprising if the EA stats were really meaningfully different from the RD stats. At Early Decision schools, where the student is committed to attend if accepted ED, there's a well-known incentive for the college to make any stretches it plans to make there, rather than in the RD round. But that incentive is much less at an EA school.</p>