Does anyone happen to know ED2 acceptance rate and decision release date?
Also, just wondering that when does UChicago start having ED1/ED2?
Do they just started for 2016-17 applications or earlier?
This current admission cycle is only the 2nd year of EDI/EDII. They started with 2016/17 applications (class of 2021).
The release date last year was 15 Feb, they will announce the date this year about a week before. No one really knows the ED2 acceptance rate as it is not released, but one can surmise that it was much, much higher than the ~ 2% RD rate last year. Having said all that, things will probably be a little different this year as far as admit rates go.
No, but it was 15 Feb last year so it should be around the same time this year.
@CU123 is that mean they will come out on the week of 2/4/18 ?
More likely decisions will come out 14-16 Feb.
@CU123 do you happen to know that what is the deferred rate of UChicago under EA?
@k95070 - Here is an initial stab. @CU123 might have better guesstimates.
This year is hard to say. Another thread is mentioning a bit under 10% admit rate from 13,000 early apps (total), so sounds like last year. http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/2052628-uchicago-2017-2018-admissions-statistic-hints-p1.html
If it’s like last year that would be 2/3 ED 1/3 EA. Given that EA is going to have a lot more applications than EDI, the rate is going to be fairly low - maybe around 5%? That would mean 400 EA accepts out of 8,000 apps, with 800 EDI accepts out of 5,000 apps (16% admit rate). That seems reasonable.
However, anecdotally, it appears that more EA’s were accepted this year than last. Not sure. That’s how it looks on CC, at any rate (hardly a representative sample!). So you just don’t know till more information is forthcoming.
The above information does not distinguish deferrals from outright rejections. Clearly, if your application isn’t up to par, you won’t even be deferred (although we did see an interesting range of deferred stats last year . . . ). Logically speaking, colleges want to defer as many as possible in order not to appear cruel or discouraging - and also to push down RD rates :). We can see from some other elite colleges that the majority of early’s are deferred rather than rejected. It’s a managed pool. So while it’s hard to know the rate, it’s easy to figure that it’ll be the most likely outcome from the early round (given no other information about your particular application, of course).
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@JBStillFlying I applied EA and was deferred, decided to switch to EDII. If they do defer a large amount of early applicants to avoid appearing cruel and to push down acceptance rates, is it even worth considering a deferral anything besides an easy let down?
@JBStillFlying will tell you her DD was an EA deferred to ED2 accept, so no it isn’t an easy let down.
In my D’s case, the deferral was clearly because she didn’t apply EDI 
Nothing changed about her application other than that she committed to them this time.
EDII’s outcomes, IIRC, are Accept, Reject, and Waitlist. So you need to be prepared for one of the bad ones (and obviously some who switched WERE waitlisted or rejected last year). If you are pretty sure you would have been admitted EDI given your stats and application, then EDII is for you - assuming UChicago is truly first choice. In D’s case she decided to force the issue - sort of the college-admissions equivalent of saying “marry me or we’re breaking up.” :))
Just wondering, if you get deferred from EA then decide switch to ED2, is the acceptance chance higher than for those who apply ED2 directly ?
@kl95070 No one outside the Admission Office can answer your question. And ED2 started last year according to @JBStillFlying . So the sample size is too small anyway to evaluate the odds.
There have been many huge debates on CC during last 18 months about how UChicago using ED/ED2 to shape the entering class. I am not going to go into the full gory detail. Check one out yourself:
Suffice to say indeed UChicago is likely admitting far more students from ED/ED2/EA than RD. I think the highest percentage definitively comes from ED/ED2. In other words, IF UChicago is indisputably your first choice and IF your family can afford it, you should go for ED/ED2.
Since you switched over to ED2 already, don’t fret the outcome. The decision is out of your hands by now. You will know the outcome in 10 days.
I called admissions today and they are “not quite ready” to announce exact decision date, but it is definitely next week.
OP: I don’t think anyone can generalize about people who switch to ED II after an EA deferral vs. people who apply ED II for the first time. Both groups probably include some people who are close to automatic admits if they have officially committed to Chicago as their first choice via ED and a whole bunch of people who are longshots for admission and are likely to be waitlisted or rejected whether they are in the ED II pool or the RD pool. And people in between. None of us knows how many of the ED II people accepted are in the first category or the third, either.
Logic tells you a few things. EA applicants who switched to ED II did not apply to any SCEA college (i.e., HYPS), and if they applied to some other college ED concurrently with their Chicago EA application, they were rejected or deferred. In all cases, they were willing to commit to ED when push came to shove, but something was holding them back from committing originally.
Many people applying for the first time ED II may have been disappointed SCEA applicants, or people whose EA or ED applications elsewhere were rejected or deferred. That’s almost certainly the case if the people originally filed RD applications, and then switched them to ED II in late December – but I don’t know if the dates of application and switching even make it into the decision packages the admission staff use. As with EA switchovers, none of these people applied ED I, so there was something that kept them from committing to Chicago before, but now there isn’t.
All of that isn’t very relevant information. The above can be true of very strong applicants the university would love to have, and of applicants who aren’t good candidates for admission in any guise, ED I, EA, ED II, or RD. So I suspect they just ignore it and look at the applications, although they likely remember EA applicants they deferred only a few weeks ago…
Personally, I believe (but others might dispute) that the ED II pool has a lot of very strong applicants in it from people who had a legitimate shot at SCEA admission at one of HYPS, and those people will take a number of the ED II acceptances. But last year’s results certainly showed that lots of strong deferred EA applicants who switched to ED II were also admitted, so the original ED II applicants did not hog all the slots. And who knows whether this year is going to differ from last year, since there’s only one year of history here?
And in any event, there is nothing you can do to affect any of this, and in all likelihood most of the ED II decisions have been made already. You don’t have any choice but to try to stay calm and mindful, and to see what happens a week or so from now.
^^ Could it be that last year’s EDII pool was small and that the majority were actually deferred from EA? That can’t be the case this year with 4,000 additional applications in the non-early round over last year’s number. But last year, as the new year with an unusual ED round, might have seen a dearth of applicants. Just a thought.
I doubt we will ever know the definitive answer to any of these questions, but logical reasoning will probably get us close.
^^It keeps us busy, at any rate! :-B
FYI - Chicago just posted that they are releasing ED2 decisions “late afternoon” on Thursday the 15th.