UChicago in the US news and world report RANKINGS

College Search & Selection
1

<p>Why is UCHICAGO ranked so high in the rankings when their acceptance rate is only 27.9%?</p>

2

<p>Those who cannot figure this out on their own do not apply.</p>

3

<p>Have you ever looked at their essay prompts? That’s why. And judging how good a school is by acceptance rate is stupid.</p>

4

<p>I do not understand. exactly why???</p>

5

<p>Two reasons, mainly:</p>

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<li><p>Its application is notoriously difficult to complete, it doesn’t get many of those “Oh, I’ll just shoot them an application for the heck of it” applications which pad the number of applicants at many other schools of comparable quality.</p></li>
<li><p>The applicant pool for Chicago is considered to be highly “self-selective.” Chicago doesn’t (and doesn’t TRY to) appeal to a wide variety of students (typically just hard-working and intellectual students…as opposed to jocks, frat boys, and social butterflies) so the ones who don’t fit this mold typically don’t even apply. In other words, the ones who won’t fit well get weeded out before they even apply, as opposed to weeded out by the admissions staff after they apply.</p></li>
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6

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Probably because acceptance rate counts for a whopping 1.5% of the ranking score. </p>

<p>It really doesn’t take that much effort to look at the methodology. </p>

<p>:rolleyes:</p>

7

<p>when they see what college u attended in job applications, do they consider the ACADEMIC strength of the school or the school overall (by using the us news and world report rankings)?</p>

<p>because the school rank overall may include stuff like how big sports are in the school and stuff.</p>

8

<p>Sigh. It depends. Any reasonably sophisticated employer that wants you to use your BRAINS in the job will be interested in your academics, and will most likely know about the reputation of the U of C and the elite LACs and so forth.</p>

<p>Re the U of C: it is not only that the application–previously known as the “Uncommon Application” is more difficult to complete, it is that until this year the U of C didn’t accept the Common App at all. Resulting in a smaller, more intentional and more select applicant pool.</p>