<p>Have any African Americans on here been rejected from Uchicago or/ Columbia ED? I'm applying there next year, and many people on here think that if you are a URM you will automatically get in to practically anywhere you apply.</p>
<p>Not so much outright rejected, but I know African-Americans that were deferred from Columbia. So it is possible. </p>
<p>And I can’t say for sure, but some say ED isn’t a big boost, some say it is. Nonetheless, they wouldn’t accept you if you have really bad grades and nothing to offer, even if you are black.</p>
<p>I don’t have stats for Chicago, but Columbia and all ivies reject about 75% of AA applicants. There’s definitely a boost, AA’s are accepted at twice the rate of the none hooked, but it’s far from a sure thing.</p>
<p>[The</a> State of Black Student Freshman Enrollments at the Nation’s Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities](<a href=“http://www.jbhe.com/features/61_enrollments.html]The”>The State of Black Student Freshman Enrollments at the Nation’s Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities)</p>
<p>The Black acceptance rate for UChicago was 48.7 percent for the Class of 2012.</p>
<p>Going by hmom5’s post, AA applicants have a 25% acceptance rate at an ivy, compared to an unhooked, which is about 12%. Just generally speaking, of course! It’s “far from a sure thing” because 25% is still low. </p>
<p>Another way to see any pattern is to look through the threads that list acceptances/rejections at each school following ED decisions. These lists are not the complete list but it gives a “sense”.</p>
<p>Some schools have “appeared” to accept many more blacks / URM this year than in years past. Brown, for instance, accepted a much higher proportion of blacks and Hispanics than previous years, but percentages are misleading because numbers are still small. There’s a thread on that, and an article as well.</p>
<p>@kwu do you think that the number of AA acceptances for Uchicago are doubled for EA? I’ll be most likely applying EA</p>