<p>Does anyone know the stats of past years for how many EA get accepted and percentages?</p>
<p>they always say its the same as regular, but i think its normally 40%. This year its probably going to be 30-35% because of the common app</p>
<p>It hangs around 35-40%.</p>
<p>Has Chicago announced how many EA applications is has received? When it does that, take 1200, divide it by the number of applications, and you'll have the approximate EA acceptance percentage for this year. The number of people accepted in the EA round hasn't varied much year to year; but the number of applications has varied a lot.</p>
<p>They haven't yet released the stats, but they should be releasing them this week. Last year, they released them on the 20th.</p>
<p>where would i find this number when it does come out?</p>
<p>(1) The Maroon will doubtless report it. So, the Maroon website.</p>
<p>(2) And 15 minutes later College Confidential.</p>
<p>^^ JHS, that's hilarious.</p>
<p>I say it's going to be around 30% this year...thanks to the Common App and harvard and princeton taking away EA/ED</p>
<p>H & P eliminated December decisions before this year. The only variable that's different is that this is the first year Chicago uses the Common App. (boo hiss)</p>
<p>30% would mean no increase in EA applications vs. last year. Without looking it up, I think last year there were a little more than 4,000 EA applications (an increase of about 25% compared 2006, accounting for ), and about 1,300 EA acceptances. There was some expectation that the EA pool would probably include a higher-than-previous percentage of Harvard and Princeton acceptees, and thus that yield from the EA pool would be lower than in prior years (i.e., fewer EA acceptees would enroll). One way or another, however, that seems not to have happened, and for the third year in a row final enrollment was somewhat higher than the target. </p>
<p>So my guess is that there will be slightly fewer EA acceptees this year. But not a lot fewer, because Chicago gets good students out of its EA pool, in part because it markets the heck out of the ones it wants from December-April.</p>
<p>There are lots of big factors swishing around that could have affected the number of EA applications: the crappy economy, continually increasing recognition of Chicago's high quality, the effect of being on the Common App, another year's worth of sophistication in the good-high-school-student world about application strategies in a world without early options at Harvard and Princeton. I will be surprised if EA applications increased as much this year as they did last year, but I will be equally surprised if they don't increase at least a little.</p>
<p>Bottom line: 30% acceptance rate in the EA pool is probably a smidgen too high. I'm guessing 27%.</p>
<p>If EA acceptances got below 30% then the overall acceptance will decrease by around 10% from last year. Chicago has spent ten years getting it down from 50% to 40%, i just don't see how its going to drop that much all of a sudden</p>
<p>it was 42% last year calm down...</p>
<p>i got all the stats lol thanks to my friend buying us news LOL</p>
<p>Are the more or less 125 Merit scholarships offered only to the EA admits?</p>
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<p>Last year's admit rate was 28%. Two years ago it was 38%. This is the first year of the common application, and I think Chicago is continuing to receive a rather large boost in popularity. I wouldn't be surprised if the total admit rate went down to 22-23%, but 18% seems a bit too optimistic.</p>
<p>"Are the more or less 125 Merit scholarships offered only to the EA admits?"</p>
<p>i sure hope not.</p>
<p>When i interviewed, i asked if there were any advantages to applying early and they said that there weren't any, so i would assume that that includes scholarships. I'm also pretty sure that they don't announce scholarships until april, so i would assume that that is because they are waiting for RD applications to be read. But i'm not sure.</p>
<p>S has a friend who was offered one of the full tuition rides as an RD applicant. And, because someone will inevitably think that EA means you've shown so much interest in Chicago they don't have to offer you $$, EA is not a detriment, either.</p>
<p>My understanding is that the faculty folks who make scholarship recommendations don't do so until fairly late in the game. Award letters don't go out until early April.</p>
<p>U</a> of C acceptance rate hits record low - The Chicago Maroon
Here's the Maroon article from last spring that does a pretty good job of presenting the historical numbers. It doesn't address the EA admissions rates per se, but you can see that consistently about a third of all acceptances come in the EA round. (The chart makes it look like EA acceptances were less than a third of all acceptances last year, but I think that can't be true, and that something's wrong with the chart. EA applications represented just under 1/3 of all applications, and no one suggested that it was harder to be accepted EA than RD last year. I'm certain EA acceptances were slightly more than 1/3 of total acceptances last year.) Four years ago, the EA acceptance percentage was about 50%; last year it was under 33%.</p>
<p>The thing that you have to remember is that even with the common app, chicago still has "The Essay," which I know from talking to some of my friends turns A LOT of people off to applying. So idk how much early action will actually go up.</p>