<p>2.7? Dude…c’mon.</p>
<p>In response to firecracker3: Asian, Literature major, 2400 SAT, 3.96 GPA. Waitlisted! Haha, clearly I’m not unique enough. Congrats to all those accepted!</p>
<p>it’s unreasonable and pointless for anyone not involved in the admission process to try to get in their head and understand their motives. as students, we’ll never know exactly and completely why we got accepted or rejected or waitlisted. people with 2400 and 4.0 get rejected, people with 2200 and 3.8 get in. our logic might be that good grades and test scores SHOULD get you in, but clearly it doesn’t always seem so. if you can’t reason why certain people get in and some people don’t with 100% confidence, try not to estimate what’s in the admissions office’s head.</p>
<p>Waitlisted…</p>
<p>I am an International student, do I still have a chance or should I interpret this as a rejection?</p>
<p>highseas,</p>
<p>I’m interested in what your friend would think had he gotten accepted. Something tells me “UChicago is a home for Ivy rejects” would instead be “UChicago is just as good as the Ivies, look at <em>copious amounts of evidence</em>.”</p>
<p>@highsea </p>
<p>Although I got waitlisted and UChicago was only one of the few schools that I loved, I’d like to disagree with that. I think UChicago admissions is much more about ‘fit’ and finding students who encapsulate the unique approach that the college takes towards learning. No doubt they will be cautious about yield but they will not reject an excellent student because they think he/she will turn down UChicago for an ivy. Also, regardless of whether that statement about students at UChicago being ivy rejects is true or not, I think it is fair enough to say that Chicago is now at the level where a lot of ‘ivy standard’ students prefer the intellectual ethos of this college to ivies. </p>
<p>I am neither saying that those rejected or waitlisted today will not get into ivies nor am I claiming that the admissions officers of the schools where your friend was accepted were wrong, I am just saying different schools look for different qualities in a student.</p>
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<p>best to interpret it as a rejection and move on (but accept your place on the waitlist). very few ppl get in from the waitlist and in the case u do youll be thrilled. in case u dont… well uve already moved on right</p>
<p>I was waitlisted by Uchi then accepted by Cornell today. </p>
<p>Not a top applicant at all, but admissions are unpredictable.</p>
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Congratulations!!! so happy for u. <3 :)</p>
<p>Omg THANK YOU! 
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<p>Deferred → wait list</p>
<p>I think they’re trying to torture me.</p>
<p>Btw, congrats Alexis!</p>
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My friend applied to Chicago in hopes for merit scholarships ( he does not qualify for need based). He’ll be happy to get accepted, as I said, U Chicago is a great school.</p>
<p>But he did say a lot of kids there are Ivy rejects. it kinda felt weird due to their insecurity and competitiveness…</p>
<p>Again, congrats to all of you who got in, you worked hard and cheers!!!</p>
<p>Oh and how did you find out about Cornell?? Was it a likely letter??</p>
<p>Congratulations Alexiss, that sounds like an amazing rollercoaster ride of a day</p>
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<p>Did he go out and poll the entire student population or what? We hate Northwestern more than we feel bitter towards any of the Ivies.</p>
<p>Congrats Alexiss! And congrats to everyone that was accepted!</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone.
This day has been craaaaazzzy. </p>
<p>LOL </p>
<p>@karate
Yup. Likely email for a diversity thingy. ∩__∩</p>
<p>highsea, I think it’s better if you not try to sell waitlisted kids on this “overqualified” theory of yours. UChicago had an 8.8% acceptance rate this year, they couldn’t take a lot of kids even if they wanted them because there’s no room. That’s why people were waitlisted/turned down, even if they deserved to get in. That’s why people have good shots elsewhere, not because uchicago thought they were too good. No one is overqualified at UChicago this year- the RD rate probably rivals that of Dartmouth/Brown this year. Your assumptions are based on a couple examples of people you know and completely ignore the important role of holistic admissions’ determining fit. I know someone who was a perfect fit for UChicago, was accepted here and also to Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, waitlisted at Princeton.</p>
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Seahawks506, you are at U Chicago, of course you are speaking highly of Chicago. But Chicago was not your first choice.
Let’s not kid ourselves, givien the choice of choosing H Y P S M, few would choose chicago, of course, that not to say none will choose.</p>
<p>Waitlisted at Chicago this year is a good indication for other schools. With the adoption of common app, most people just throw in the extra app fee to apply to Chicago, does not mean they are interested in. 8.8% acceptance rate does not boost Chicago’s status, I am sorry to say.</p>
<p>Again, I am saying u chicago is a great school, but I hate the yield game.</p>
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Fit is the biggest misperception. If you attend high schools without ‘fit’ creteria, why do you have to put this creteria for college? It’s a game word that colleges try to use.</p>
<p>@highsea</p>
<p>what do you mean by “Waitlisted at Chicago this year is a good indication for other schools”. Should we expect to be waitlisted/accepted by other top schools as well? </p>
<p>ahh. i’m so nervous.</p>