<p>I’m not personally offended in any way. You clearly just forgot to type something, which happens to all of us, even those of us who only speak English. </p>
<p>And you did mean what you said as a compliment, so I can see that you clearly had good intentions.</p>
<p>Milton Friedman is DA MAN!!! Not to mention that Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen just recently won the Nobel Prize.</p>
<p>On the business side, Brady Dougan, CEO of Credit Suisse, is a UChicago undergrad and Booth alum. </p>
<p>Just thinking about all this makes me depressed about how great the school is and how unlikely it is that I’ll get in…
Do you all think the school will have an even lower accept rate this year?</p>
<p>@giant sadly, yes i think the rate will be lower.</p>
<p>Hopefully not lower, Iet’s all pray to the admission god.</p>
<p>I actually am figuring that the EA acceptance rate is going to be around 11% this year. It would be lower than last year, but not that much lower.</p>
<p>Also, as much as Friedman brought a lot of attention to the University of Chicago, we must also remember that he was one of the driving forces behind Reaganomics. So yeah, he did good for the school, but bad for the country.</p>
<p>I would debate Debater1996 on that…</p>
<p>if this is a debate, i’m with debater on that.</p>
<p>I actually think debater’s probably right, there tends to be a trend once colleges become extremely selective in which more students get intimidated and decide not to apply (or that’s how it works where I live anyway, and admittedly schools here are horrible). I’m hoping this year might be the tipping point for that phenomenon…</p>
<p>Debater
When you said 11% is that number for regular decision or early action.</p>
<p>I was going to incite an argument on economics, but then I realized that this is the internet, and even in a U Chicago forum, people are going to turn into monsters. </p>
<p>So I’ll just go back to the admissions rate thing, and agree with EnoughNerve, in that I hope the admission rate will stay fairly stagnant.</p>
<p>there will be time enough for debates once we get to uchicago, methinks</p>
<p>As for EA acceptance rate, I’m sticking with 11%.</p>
<p>If Chicago again has about a 20% increase in EA applicants, and again accepts about 1400 people EA (thus filling about 100% of the class), then the admission rate will be right around 11%.</p>
<p>but they can’t accept 100% ea.</p>
<p>They just about filled the class last time. This certainly doesn’t mean that they didn’t accept anyone RD, but they offered enough spots to just about fill their class during EA. Colleges will offer more spots than are available, knowing that the amount who will matriculate isn’t nearly as high as the number who are accepted.</p>
<p>Why is it so low? Some of the ivies have around 30% acceptance.</p>
<p>huh, i stand corrected. if i get in, i’ll sell my soul to go, though.</p>
<p>@omar i think 30% is too high for ivies.</p>
<p>Nope look it up?</p>
<p>[Ivy</a> League Acceptance Rates for Class of 2017](<a href=“http://collegeapps.about.com/b/2013/04/13/ivy-league-acceptance-rates-for-class-of-2017.htm]Ivy”>http://collegeapps.about.com/b/2013/04/13/ivy-league-acceptance-rates-for-class-of-2017.htm)</p>
<p>not seeing any 30%</p>