on the NEW Common App it says that you can ED and EDII to University of Chicago! Is this real? do you think the admissions rates will be any higher?
Lots of discussion and speculation about that here:
@GraniteStateMom Thanks so much
"do you think the admissions rates will be any higher? "
NO.
what Chicago is trying to do is increase its yield- the % of students who actually enroll at Chicago after being admitted. right now that % is far lower than at other “peer” colleges.
The overall acceptance rate will not increase.
@menloparkmom - I’m confused, Chicago’s yield is far HIGHER than most of its peers, right? Chicago has a 66% yield - only clearly surpassed by Harvard, Stanford, and MIT.
Perhaps you’re thinking of some metric other than yield?
The main reason to implement ED is to go even higher on yield.
If Chicago has a 66% yield now, that probably means it is getting 75-80% on its EA admits. Adding an ED component (actually, two of them) to the early admissions portfolio likely pushes the early admit yield above 90%, and the overall yield to 75% or higher. Which means fewer kids accepted, therefore a lower admissions rate, and looking more like HYPS.