<p>^haha that would be awesome! and thanks everyone for the merit aid advice. I shall write to my regional admission officer and politely inquire :)</p>
<p>I just want to say congrats to all who admitted and to others that it will hopefully easy to move on. </p>
<p>Also, yield protection is not really a concern. UChicago does not use true measurements of interest (visits, facts you know, etc.) but does take into account fit. If you clearly know nothing about the school in your Why UChicago? essay then the school will see that you are not a good fit because you, the applicant, don’t even know why you’re a good fit.</p>
<p>Waitlisted. At this point, the waitlist pool is like RD round 2.</p>
<p>How many waitlist ppl do they accept?</p>
<p>Very few people are accepted off the waitlist, I think only 15 got in last year. Although some were also offered an acceptance+gap year I think. And RD admits do get scarves! they’re short and not very useful but nice to have :)</p>
<p>Deferred EA then accepted! Oh, and let’s refrain from playing the “Is-this-school-infected-with-Tufts-syndrome” game. (:</p>
<p>Since they reduced the number of admits by a 660 last year to this year, it is quite possible you will see more than 15. How many depends on the yield from the admitted 2700 and whether it is sufficient to fill the expected class size.</p>
<p>GAILFORCE = Goldenboy or Happyman72?</p>
<p>Don’t you have anything better to do?</p>
<p>@GAILFORCE
And if I were to post that on say, Duke’s forum, would it not be met with similar disapprobation? Given your posting history, you presume much to think that any jab on your part would be taken as a joke in this forum. In any case, if it was a joke, I apologize on gravitas’s behalf. </p>
<p>On the topic of Chicago being infected by Tufts syndrome:
With among the highest SAT score ranges (4th in the nation, I believe), SAT score percentiles (higher than HYPSM, didn’t check any others), top 10% in HS percentage (above HYPS and next to M) and GPA (similar to HYP), I find it hard to believe that UChicago is simply waitlisting/rejecting the objectively uber-qualified. I can see, however that UChicago is, as always, heavily weighing fit and interest in the school as demonstrated by the student.</p>
<p>All schools engage in yield protection. Whether it’s through waitlist (as some suggest UChicago does - although we need concrete evidence on this) or with an ED policy, schools care a lot about yield.</p>
<p>Personally, I think heavy use of ED is problematic, because it hampers student choice. Others (like highsea) seem just fine with schools using ED to yield protect, but take issue with UChicago’s unverified and alleged yield protection practices. </p>
<p>I suspect UChicago “yield protects” in some way or another. I also suspect all other top schools do as well.</p>
<p>after this RD round, I’ve lost a biiit of respect for UChicago.</p>
<p>^^Why so??</p>
<p>I want to apologize for my previous remarks. I should have exercised more restraint.</p>
<p>Sigh… I keep repeating this: all schools engage in some form of “yield protection”. While I’m not sure UChicago’s form of this is as some posters attest, I’m sure (perhaps internally) they have a sense of how yield is shaping up. Are people really going to “lose respect” for Duke or Penn or Northwestern when each of these schools fill up 45%+ of their class with early decision?</p>
<p>Moderator’s note: I gave a timeout to someone just now on this thread for not following proper open forum protocols. I am really hoping that I would not be forced to do the same with more members.</p>
<p>It is useful to discuss views. Yield protection is an important tool in a college’s arsenal to ensure people show up when they are admitted. It is not a personal attack on UC if someone would like to discuss this in an honest manner. However, throwing around words like dumb in that discussion defeats the purpose.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how many people made the waitlist?</p>
<p>@texaspg: I think on one of the threads the UChicago rep said that they define the waitlist as those who accept their place on the list, so they don’t release that information until they have that final number. It’ll be a little while more, I’m sure.</p>
<p>I read in the Chicago Maroon that they offered about 3000 people a place on the WL in 2012 and I shouldn’t think that it changed that much, though because almost 700 fewer people there are two possibilities: 1. Fewer people were offered a place on the WL because they want the number to roughly track the number of admitted students (I find this unlikely but not impossible) 2. More applicants were offered a spot on the WL maybe around 3500 to make up for the drop in admitted students and the difficulty in projecting yield (I find this more probable) but again these are just guesses baed on last year’s numbers.</p>
<p>@awkwardpenguin why have you lost respect?</p>
<p>JMHO, but I’ve been watching the admissions game for many years, including at UofC (which my son graduated from). All adcoms are highly strategic, especially in offers of merit aid. </p>
<p>But I’m not convinced you can draw meaningful inferences about how strategic they are in admissions per se. Yes, some play the waitlist game to raise their yield. But most try to admit the best students who apply, with some consideration of “fit.” They don’t get better by rejecting superior applicants. Yield itself doesn’t weigh all that heavily in rankings or reputation in any case (it weighs more on the CC discussion board).</p>
<p>Chicago maintains some preference for quirky, well-lopsided applicants – ceteris paribus. They’re far more interested in highly intellectually motivated or accomplished students in any field than they are in well-rounded, scholar-athlete, resume-builders, or obsessed grade grubbers. </p>
<p>(My son had excellent stats and all, but they saw something else that turned him into one of their most recognized alumni today. They made the right decision for him and for them. When he first visited the campus, after he was admitted, and did an overnight there, the next morning he simply said to us “This will do.” And it was so.)</p>