<p>It's official--UChicago's admit rate has dropped below that of 4 of the Ivy League Schools. Stay tuned for NEXT year:</p>
<p>7</a> of 8 Ivy League Schools Report Lower Acceptance Rates - NYTimes.com</p>
<p>Harvard 5.9
Yale 6.7
Columbia 6.9
Princeton 7.3
MIT 8.2
UChicago 8.8
Brown 9.1
Darthmouth 10.0
Duke 11.5
Penn 12.1
Northwestern 13.9
Cornell 15.2</p>
<p>Palmbe, thanks for the information. Some top school newspaper authors can not read , since in an article related to the top schools admissions rate this year, UChicago was totally omitted twice.</p>
<p>Don’t worry–the mainstream media is starting to pick up on it!</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130401/NEWS13/130409989/university-of-chicago-more-selective-than-some-ivies[/url]”>University of Chicago more selective than some Ivies;
<p>^Well, not quite “mainstream” yet. </p>
<p>Would be nice to see an article in NYT or WSJ about the turnaround at UofC, though.</p>
<p>Well if you want more news, here you go (from Time):</p>
<p>[College</a> Admissions: Ivy League Acceptance Rates Decline | TIME.com](<a href=“http://nation.time.com/2013/04/02/ivy-league-schools-accepting-even-fewer-kids/]College”>College Admissions: Ivy League Acceptance Rates Decline | TIME.com)</p>
<p>UChicago and MIT are mentioned toward the end of the article, which notes that both schools have a ~8% accept rate.</p>
<p>Hah and you neglected Stanford. Someone’s always getting dissed. This stuff is all for entertainment value as far as I’m concerned.</p>
<p>As the parent of a prospective student, the constant need of Chicago students/supporters on this site to feel superior to the Ivies is a real turnoff!</p>
<p>Actually what is ridiculous is hearing a bunch of uneducated Ivy League students claim to be Shakespeare or Einstein. As the parent of one Stanford student said, “My son got into college, he didn’t win the Nobel Prize.”</p>
<p>He would have to go to UChicago to do that, not an Ivy or Stanford or MIT.</p>
<p>mamabear, with due respect it is not a constant need to feel superior. It is about truthful correct and complete articles about the admissions rate of the TOP Universities. UChiicago is a world top university, with this year admission rate below than 4 ivy school. That is a fact, the true. We do not need to validate the true, but it is unfair seeing people omitting it. If that it is a turnoff for you sorry.I guess you will feel the same if someone deliberately bypass your kid accomplishment.</p>
<p>@mamabear1234. Interesting. If recent history is correct it has been the “very uninformed parents” who have been “brainwashing” their children to apply to only certain schools because of their “prestige” in the pseudo rankings that Chicago never before took seriously until now. Chicago has always been known as an academic powerhouse…but, it has been the “uninformed” parents, guidance counselors from poor academic backgrounds, and such who have poisoned high school students for so many years into thinking that so called “ivy” schools are what they should vie for…</p>
<p>…only recently have Chicago administrators woke up to reality to pursue “customer service” for prospective students, current students, and alumni as all great educational institutions must. As most of the hospital systems in this country followed the lead of Mayo Clinic in customer service for their patients…some very late to the party as Chicago was. Chicago having learned its lessons is charging forward to make things right in all aspects of an educational experience…not just academic anymore.</p>
<p>…I do believe there is definitely a power shift going on in this country…that shift is leaning toward Stanford. And it has a lot to do with Stanford’s proximity to the Asian powers, technology, entrepreneurs…Most of the latest important metrics in evaluating institutions are showing Stanford to become the academic leader over even Harvard…</p>
<p>…ivy league does not carry the “prestige” factor as it once use to…only few schools from that athletic league should still continue to be acknowledged as such…as only few schools from the PAC-12 should be.</p>
<p>mamabear:</p>
<p>Schools, institutionally, tend to be hyper-aware of what their peers, aspirational or otherwise, are doing. It’s funny, for even the most entrenched institutions, you’d get the sense they are all on thin ice and struggling mightily to keep up with one another. For example, I’m sure no administrator in Cambridge is particularly happy that Stanford overtook Harvard this year (by a shade) to be the most selective national university in the country. </p>
<p>For a while, UChicago didn’t play that game, but that proved to be a very bad decision for the school (and very nearly made the College irrelevant). Now that UChicago is indeed playing that game, what you’re seeing are a bunch of interested parties (students and alums) wanting to make sure that everyone knows the score.</p>
<p>gravitas2 and Cue7, great posts !! Again, just the true.</p>