<p>@phuriku Alright, I’ll concede that your reasoning is pretty sound.</p>
<p>Change in early apps (all types–SCEA, EA, ED) for 2017</p>
<p>UVA: 29.3%
UChicago: 19.5%
Harvard: 14.7%
Princeton: 10.1%
Northwestern: 7%
Penn: 5.6%
Yale: 4.4%
Columbia: 1.3%
Brown: 1%
Georgetown: 0.5%
Duke: -3%
Dartmouth: -12.5%</p>
<p>Cornell, Stanford, MIT, Caltech haven’t reported yet.</p>
<p>Dartmouth’s double-digit drop surprises me. I don’t remember receiving ANY mailings from them either. So I’m just going to go on a stretch and say that it’s all in the advertising. </p>
<p>A lot of people just take advantage of the unrestricted EA UChicago has. Barring MIT, it’s the highest ranked college that offers this.</p>
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<p>Dartmouth’s double-digit drop does not surprise me at all. The school has had some very bad press in recent years (hazing practices, sexual assaults, etc). Not surprising many high school students are having second thoughts about the school.</p>
<p>^ Same with me. It’s been getting a lot of negative attention, which is my personal reason for not applying. It sounds like a cult. :S</p>
<p>Hahaha jubilee it’s funny because UChicago is ranked above MIT now. 
It’s moot though because you can apply to both, which is what I did. Unrestricted EA is the way to go! I want to have some solid options in before Christmas so I didn’t want to limit myself with SCEA. This way I should have 4-6 acceptances in the next couple weeks.</p>
<p>Stanford +3.7%</p>
<p>10,316 EA applications means 7,000+ will be rejected!!!</p>
<p>Not necessarily, in previous years they’ve deferred more people than they outright rejected.</p>
<p>well if chicago defers more than it rejects EA applicant, it’s nice news since I’m not likely to get severe depression by 18th</p>
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Did you read the Rolling Stone article (published this year I believe) on the horrendous hazing practices the administration seemed to have failed to stop? The article was so explicit and disgusting. It doesn’t live down its “Animal House-inspired” hype.</p>
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<p>Ranking, schmanking. MIT’s applicants would be more self-selective. I was going to apply to both early, but I didn’t have enough time to give it a good application. Good luck to you, though! :)</p>
<p>Well, Rolling Stone does have a tendency to overexaggerate so I wouldn’t exactly trust the article. However, there’s no doubt the administration there isn’t doing a good job.</p>
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<p>It’s hard to go a page without seeing some reference to rankings. Seriously…enough. (This isn’t directed at jubilee, but to those who seem to obsess about rankings to no end). It’s…shall I say, disgraceful to continue nitpicking over such minor differences. Chicago has cemented its position within the top 5; continuing to obsess over this makes it seem like we don’t think we deserve this position or something. You rarely if ever see HYPSMC kids do this.</p>