<p>I can't give you a breakdown of acceptances by gender AND ethnicity. That information is available only for actual enrolled students.</p>
<p>The full data for acceptances won't be available until the next Common Data Set in October. However, for the current freshman class, the school accepted 469 women and 448 men. Based on the number of applications, the female acceptance rate was 20.4%. The acceptance rate for men was 25.1%.</p>
<p>As for actual enrollments at that particular school, all domestic minority groups (Af Am, Asian Am, and Latino) tilt female over male. White US students and internationals (as a group) tilt towards the male side. Thus, there are more white males enrolled than white females.</p>
<p>shennie:</p>
<p>It seems intuitive that ED would tend to tilt towards white applicants, but I'm not sure to what degree. The ED applicants from College Confidential this year certainly didn't fit that expectation.</p>
<p>I do agree with your overall premise: a well-qualified applicant benefits from an early decision application. It's kind of like driving through a city in the predawn hours before before rush-hour starts.</p>
<p>"Reacting to this years admissions statistics, ONeill expressed satisfaction. Needless to say, we felt this was not only a larger pool, but a stronger one, ONeill said."</p>
<p>I have never heard an admissions officer expressing the opposite view. ;) But it is mostly just the ripple effect of more applicants being denied ED admission, and hence submitting even more applications than they would have otherwise. A "stronger pool" might actually result in a "weaker class", as it becomes less and less likely that the student the school REALLY wants is going to accept their admissions offer.</p>
<p>For the last 4 or 5 years the "numbers" have been getting stronger at UChicago, particularly in the top 25th percentile. Whether the numbers indicate a stronger pool is another topic. Knowing O'Neill, his reference to stronger may not be synonymous with better numbers. More likely better essays, and a better demonstrated yearning for the "life of the mind."</p>
<p>"More likely better essays, and a better demonstrated yearning for the "life of the mind."</p>
<p>Probably just a lot more Ivy ED rejects (I think that's what he actually meant. ;)) (And nothing wrong with that either - they probably ARE stronger than the applicants they used to get - as to whether they'll attend, that's another matter entirely.)</p>
<p>The O'Neill reference was I believe to EA applications, so that pretty much rules out many of the Ivy's that have either SCEA or SCED, which in return benefited from those Chicago EA rejects during their RD! :)</p>