Congratulations! That’s great news! Thanks for sharing!
@carey46 again congratulations. This is s provisional acceptance and considered a likely letter. You will get the formal acceptance on the RD release date. This is when you will have the opportunity to accept the offer and make the subsequent deposit.
My son received one if these for the class of 2021.
I hope you attend. Although extremely challenging, my son is extremely happy at UChicago.
Wishing you all the best !!!
Has anyone accepted EA seen a financial package?
@yogadi Yes - I received mine on Monday, about two weeks after everything was completed.
Are the ED1 stats available yet, or will they not be available until after the March decisions? I curious if admissions are similar to last year’s 17% admit from ED1
Where did you get the 17% admit rate from last year? Any of those were simply estimates.
I seem to remember U Chicago not releasing the data by ED I, ED II, and RD, but maybe they finally did, just late. I would be interested in seeing the breakdown because I thought I saw/heard that their RD rate was something like 1-2% because they took so many kids ED and EA, but I don’t think I ever saw an official report. If anyone has last year’s data, that would be great to see.
I don’t believe that they officially release by pathway. They do talk to it at UChicago kick-off events. The numbers that you see on this website are the people who have attended these and we’ve kind of pieced them together. They really should be looked at in that light.
RD rate was 4% last year, according to attendees at admitted events, but we don’t know whether that refers to new RD applicants or everyone including deferreds. Would caution against using the prior year to gauge what will happen this year since the new ED policy is still evolving in terms of who is applying under which type of plan, and things like “Test Optional” and targeted scholarships will have an impact on overall numbers. Also, admit rates aren’t the same thing as personal probabilities. If a candidate has a weak application, applying ED1 won’t help (since they get a good number of fine applications in that pool). If you are a strong candidate for UChicago, your chances in RD are going to be a lot higher than 4%.
BTW that letter from Nondorf is a Likely Letter, not a formal acceptance. You can submit your deposit at this time, but it still is a conditional approval.
@fluffnut9 did you receive something in the mail or was it only in the portal? thanks!
Good CC article on LL’s (pertains to comments #558 and 569):
https://www.collegeconfidential.com/articles/whats-a-likely-letter/
@yogadi just in the portal
If we were deferred, how do we send in our grades from first semester? There wasn’t any place in the portal, and I don’t know if there’s a place on the commonapp to do it
Does anyone know the ED acceptance rate this year? Just ED. Not including EA, unless that’s the only number that exists. Thanks.
@CreativeName295 - ask your guidance counselor to forward your mid-year transcript by 2/1. You may also self-report via the portal if you attend a US school. I think my son just selected “other”(or some such) for choice of document.
@collegemomjam- hopefully there will be some early admit events and news will leak out on the number of earlies accepted (EA and/or ED). We already know that the number of early applications was north of 15,000. In the two years since they began the ED option, they have never disclosed - not even informally - the number of EDI or EDII applications.
Why are they so secretive with their Early stats? Is it because they are trying to control stats somewhat in order to maintain a high yield and therefore high rank? With all due respect to this elite school, I see their name come up a lot when people are informally discussing the various schools that seem to be trying to manipulate their numbers a bit. Between all of the different (recently changed) application options, ED I, ED II, EA, and RD AND being test optional, it just seems strange to me. I know a lot of schools do this to a certain extent, but they seem to be extreme and the fact that they don’t release stats like the other schools do really makes me wonder what’s going on.
^@collegemomjam - not sure, perhaps they believe that when everyone knows all these admit rates, they might be discouraged from applying in the admission plan that truly is the best match for them. Stanford has ceased publishing admit rates altogether. I think this is an increasing trend and more might embrace the practice.
Once upon a time no one really cared about admit rates as such - they cared about fit. Maybe in this stats-crazy world of college applications, the schools might be trying to return to something a bit more sane.
^ Test optional might be a way to bring in more low-income applicants, as it was offered in the context of their new outreach to this group. There is probably a cynical explanation, as well as a perfectly reasonable explanation, for pretty much all the admission policy changes. The one thing that’s been constant is that Admissions changes up the policy quite often. Best to take nothing for granted if applying.