@JBStillFlying is that conjecture or did it come from admissions? My daughter directly emailed admissions and asked If I apply EA but am deferred will I be able to select ED2 at that time and then send in the ED agreement. The response was If a student applies EA and receives a defer outcome she will automatically be moved to the RD application timeline and will receive a final determination in March. This was over the summer and perhaps they have changed their mind on this now?
@acdchai yes - that is true. RD is the default. Did she ask what happens if she specifically calls up her admissions counselor and requests to be moved to EDII and can they please forward the commitment document for her, her family and counsellor to sign?
It’s not conjecture: it’s based on 1) direct information contained in an outreach e-mail to the alums; and 2) common sense.
Yes she replied and asked for a direct clarification and they said EA deferred could only go to RD. This was in July. I personally agree that it is common sense that one should be allowed to switch to ED2. If she is deferred and can’t ED2 to UChicago she will potentially ED2 to another school which certainly isn’t beneficial to UChicago. She wanted to see merit offers from a few schools before she was ready to commit to ED somewhere so ED2 made more sense for her. But also didn’t want to give up on the chance to be admitted EA. This was a really tough year to be a senior!
Just searched the site and it appears that they recently added a paragraph about changing your decision plan and being able to apply ED2 after being deferred EA. Nice. Would have been nicer if they had searched their emails and let people know who had asked this question that they had changed their minds.
So just to clarify, it is possible to switch from EA to ED II in the event of a deferral? @acdchai
Yes the website now specifically mentions it. Read it if it applies to you about what to do and the date you have to have the agreement in by which is Jan 1. Not to be a total kill joy here. But if they send out EA decisions after school is out for winter break there will be no way to get the school counselor to sign the ED agreement in time. sigh. I assume they will accept that document a few days late but arrrggghhh more complicated.
@adchai82 I hear ya! The kids have been whipsawed on so many fronts. Three of my daughter’s schools changed their priority/early admission dates and/or policies. One went on the CommonAp (guaranteed to lower OOS admission rates), and of course the new PSAT/SAT.
Does anyone know when decisions are coming out?
Apparently last year was 12/18, so people are predicting 12/16 for EA this year. And since ED is usually released earlier, that might be 12/9. But then, UChicago was still accepting application material around 11/22 and they were a bit slow on the application checklist stuff, so both dates might be a week later or even two. Just my guess 
Apparently ED and EA decisions will come out at the same time. That information came from the school directly when someone called and asked.
Also, most of us are predicting decisions to come out between December 16th-19th.
I applied ED- I want to hear back so badly!
EA result will definitely come out later than all other schools’ ED notification dates. Sine Johns Hopkins University will release on 16th, UChicago EA will come out after 16th. But I don’t see why they will release EA and ED on the same day. ED applicants will definitely come if admitted, so I think it should come earlier.
Did UChicago send emails a week or so before the date when results were released last year? If so, the results may not come out this Friday.
Do the schools coordinate their release dates? Doesn’t that risk looking like they are colluding? Obviously they know when the other schools tend to release but if they are talking about coordinating release dates I’d think they could get in trouble with the law.
Guessing that UChicago will stick to some “Mid” December time frame as that is their own self-imposed deadline. But “Mid” can be anywhere from the 12th - 20th. Since many high schools get out mid-late the week before Christmas, they could feasibly push it to the 22nd or 23rd. These are guesses, btw.
I wouldn’t think so, as long as the admissions decisions are independent.
There is one very good reason to coordinate release dates for EA/ED. Having ED earlier than EA allows accepted ED students to withdraw from any EA schools they also applied to. This prevents ED schools from affecting the EA school’s yield, and the EA schools can possibly tune their acceptances based upon the revised set of kids still in the hunt.
Hey guys, I’m the one who posted on a different thread that I called admissions and the lady on the phone said EA results come out at the same time as ED. This really surprised me; I agree with everyone who says it makes more sense for ED to come out first. Could she have been wrong?
Totally agree that it makes sense to have the ED release date before EA. I’m just wondering how much date fixing is going on among this small group of elite schools. I’d think they would want to be very careful about that. Pretty much any small group of producers would have the Justice Dept. breathing down their necks if they were coordinating all their product release dates because it would look suspicious - are they trying to divy up the market? That sort of thing.
DECISIONS COME OUT ON 12/17!!! https://prospects.uchicago.edu/decisions
That is from 2014.
Wait I’m confused. Is the statement from 2014 or 2016?