Wait… I need someone to re-confirm the email theory ? Is that true that people do not get decision emails so far are rejected :-s
@maiphuong Only recruited athletes so far have gotten likely letters (which is only a small handful anyway), but no one gets a formal decision until the 18th. Don’t worry 
@dr0wning I meant to say I was deferred. The theory was that those who got emails were in or out. And the rates lower but I’d say you’re near the upper part of the group. I mean the people above us have been accepted to their first choice and would withdraw from Chicago right?
You’re also in a pool with people whose preference for Chicago was strong enough that they passed on applying SCEA to HYPS in order to apply EA to UofC and whose credentials are strong enough that they were not willing to apply ED and commit to any other school before they heard from UofC and from whatever HYPS school(s) would be their next-best option(s). Chicago is a real first choice for some top students in the US. It’s not a hedge-your-bet-if-you-can’t-get-into-an-Ivy scenario for them.
Exactly.
I’m a bit worried, as I keep learning about more and more aspects that I love about UChicago (the Common Core, the Houses, the Institute of Politics), which I was not aware of when I wrote my essays. This makes me worry because I am not able to speak about these thinks I love about UChicago in my essays, and which will make me even more depressed if I get rejected. Just hoping I’ll get accepted and have the chance to take advantage of the best college in the world.
*things, not thinks.
Why is the date for UChicago so late aaahhh! All of my friends ED/EA results are already coming out and I have to wait another week…hopefully it’ll all be worth it!
I am applying RD and I sent both Sat and Act scores already. However, at UChicago, my Sat is 1470/1690 putting me at about the 30th percentile while my act is 35/36, putting me at the 70th or so percentile. Will they still see my Sat score if I don’t report it on the common app?
@PorkyPig12: If you don’t self-submit it into CommonApp and don’t send official scores to the college, they won’t see your SAT score. I got a pretty bad score on my SAT Composite and I didn’t submit it since it was much lower than my ACT scores.
@exacademic I completely agree, but that’s not the entire applicant pool. If given the choice, more people would take Harvard over Chicago. I realize that’s a blanket statement and an assumption, but its reasonable. Chicago is definitely not a hedge bet school, as you said. My point is that the pool does lack the HYPS SCEA people, which is still something.
But it has all the MIT/Caltech people. Or, some. That’s something.
@exacademic I agree with you, but @alpha525 does bring up the point that in the overall pool of early applicants to selective schools, the HYPS SCEA people are out. Personally, I was conflicted about EDing because I really love UChicago, but I realized that I would be happy at either school. It doesn’t mean that I was hedging my bets. UChicago was my first choice and still is one of my top choice schools.
@tutututututuru Oh f me you’re right.
@DominicBayer it was only after I submitted that I started hearing the horror stories about the weather, lol. So I guess I’m the opposite, but I still love UChicago
@dr0wning Unfortunately, I would have to say that this will be harder than ED Columbia…although its a different process.
Not to mention the Ivy League ED crowd.
I think UChicago’s acceptance rate is probably a little “soft” (driven by some clearly unqualified applicants drawn to the U by the admissions office’s marketing materials) compared to some schools of similar selectivity, but there are still far more qualified applicants than places.
@NotVerySmart Right, the Ivy League ED crowd, so not HYPS and MIT and Caltech are competitive here.
I think the absence of HYPS applicants is at least one reason why EA is definitely easier.
Still, tons of Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Penn and Dartmouth kids are likely also in the applicant pool, and I have no reason to doubt that they are any less qualified than we are. Think about it, we were competing against EXACTLY these very kids in the ED round, and now we are only doing it all over again with them. To some extent, yes, it’s easier, but the advantage is marginal at best.