<p>I just read an article about UChicago and many other universities' increase in applicants this year. If I'm correct, there are about 6800 applicants who applied under early action, and that is about 18.5% increase from last year!</p>
<p>Urgh, just felt like sharing lol Anyway, good luck everyone! :)</p>
<p>I’m screwed :D.</p>
<p>6960 EA applicants to be exact. </p>
<p>So, assuming an acceptance rate of ~ 20%, around 1392 spots. Ugh.</p>
<p>Wasn’t the EA acceptance rate last year 27%? Would the increase really make it go down to 20%? o_O</p>
<p>I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure colleges don’t release the number of early applicants this early in the season. Where did you get those numbers?</p>
<p>Well if they accept the same number of people they did last year which is about 1700. The acceptance rate would actually be around 24 percent.</p>
<p>They will probably take ~ 1600 then. Well, that’s good news for all of us ;)</p>
<p>I would definitely not make the assumption that they’re going to admit as many people EA this year as they did last year. Last year, hurt themselves by admitting so many students EA, as RD received a 42% increase in applications, which, considering the many more students they had admitted EA, it drover RD acceptance rate down to 12%. It seems likely to me that they’ll want to accept fewer EA, and defer a greater number so that regular decision is not so brutal.</p>
<p>Actually the class of 2014’s RD rate was about 18 percent. Although they might not accept the same amount they accepted last year EA, they could accept the same amount of people to further drive down their regular decision rate.</p>
<p>False. The total acceptance (EA+RD) rate was 18%. And the point isn’t to drive down regular decision acceptance rate, as the only statistic reported and seen by most people (who don’t do side calculations by looking up EA acceptance rate) is total acceptance rate (EA+RD acceptance/EA+RD applications.)</p>
<p>Oh sorry you are right their RD rate was about 12%.</p>