Bingo!
Thank you for the info. So they are in the stage to try to secure full pay students for 2026 now.
1 Like
The same thing happened in the same timeframe last year (2020), though they claimed they would start to look at the WL in May.
in May, did you hear of more people getting off for the fall or was it only for the following year like for us it’s 2026
I think they are almost done now. I don’t recall anybody getting off the WL in May anymore.
Yes - because no one this fall will be applying as a full-pay 
@Transfer20212025 perhaps you should also have asked whether everyone who’s been pulled from w/l for '25/'26 were first-time applicants from the RD round. There tends to be a pretty large number of competitive candidates in that round who are full pay.
Why? Do you predict that classes will be online this time too?
1 Like
UChicago has stated their intention to return to normal, conditions permitting, including in-person classes and labs. However, it’s too early to announce specifics yet. A lot depends on how much of the campus opts for vaccination and what the public health situation is in Chicago and around the country, since they will obviously comply with those guidelines and requirements.
1 Like
LOL. I know you are gonna jump on and try to make water murky. We are trying to get the facts and you apparently have nothing to offer.
Thanks for sharing, really appreciate! 
The facts of which you speak, @Transfer20212025 , is really only a single fact - that several on this board (I believe I counted five) came off the wait list and were full pays. Is that the totality of your evidence for your confident assertion that Chicago only takes full pays from its wait list? At UChicago you would have been taught that analysis of the facts is a virtue, not a source of murkiness.
-
I don’t know the numbers of AOs at Chicago, but there must be dozens of them. Most are fairly recent grads. Many if not most received financial aid themselves as students. They would not willingly carry out a scheme of the sort you are asserting. Any guidance to that effect coming from above would be stoutly resisted. It would only take one of them to blow the whistle. It hasn’t happened.
-
On this board we have the direct evidence of Laura quoting her AO as saying that the very same holistic considerations apply at the w-l stage as at all earlier stages. That too is a fact - unless you believe her AO is lying. Mwfan also told us of a student admitted off the wait list with FA. There’s another fact.
-
Do a risk-reward analysis. Why would a great university with a long history of need-blind admissions deviate from that heavily emphasized and longstanding policy for such a trivial purpose? The numbers involved at this stage of the game cannot be significant, whreas the reputational downside and the great probabilty of an anonymous letter being sent over the transom to the Maroon offices are considerable. Why would the Dean of Admissions take that risk even if so disposed?
-
Aside from the smallness of your sample, you might ask yourself whether there are any other possible explanations for these facts of yours. I can think of one: It seems highly likely that the demographic of the subset of those who remain on the w-l and vigorously follow up with Admissions would be different from that of the applicant pool in its totality. It makes sense to me that talented kids needing FA will generally have snagged good offers from other schools by the end of the ordinary admissions cycles. They will have an incentive to not look those gift horses in the mouth. Their departure from the w-l will leave a higher proportion on it without that same financial urgency. Ordinary need-blind selection from that list will accordingly yield more of them.
-
It may sound quaint to say it, but it’s also a matter of honor in my book. The sort of bad faith you are alleging would be more than simply damaging reputationally, it would be wholly inconsistent with the ideals of this university.
Let us have some analysis that meets these points.
2 Likes
Haha. I am a software engineer with a MS degree in Engineering and I think I know how to do analysis.
It isn’t a question of what you think, it is what you have demonstrated to others.
1 Like
And I am so worried about vaccination rate at this point. Now that many who wanted to get vaccinated got vaccinated, other crowd who doesn’t want to get vaccinated is going to left without vaccination. And colleges giving this religious and health exemptions will only make the things worse. And now that they said mask is not mandatory after vaccination, many are not going to wear the mask even if they are unvaccinated. Finally with many variants all over the world, vaccine may not be as effective. When is this Covid 19, 20, 21, 22…going to end?
1 Like
It may take a long time. But please know that the people at UChicago are smarter than the virus and were able to work around it and get their stuff done this year. Next year will be even better!
So - wait a minute - you are a PARENT?? Folks, we have another case of UCDS.
3 Likes
I just got off the waitlist for the class of 2026!
4 Likes
Congrats!!! I have to decide if I want to go through with this and take the gap year by May 3rd! Reach out if you want to discuss this since we’re both in the same boat!
omg thank you so much, we literally are on the same boat! can you dm or something?
Congrats! also what region are you from?
Thank you for the well wishes! Just an update but I got the call yesterday that I was admitted to the class of 2026 for UChicago. I am so grateful for the opportunity and I wish all of you much luck; I was informed that the waitlist for 2025 is closed via the phone call.
I am from New York and didn’t apply as full pay originally for the class of 2025 though, for the class of 2026, I would probably be paying most if not all of the tuition for the first year. Hope this helps!
1 Like