@Marisa58 I wrote a letter a week after deferral and then I went to Chicago for an interview. By then they had my mid year report. Whether that helped or hurt I guess I will find out on Friday.
@pwil7070 Anything additional shouldn’t hurt unless it’s just repeating the same things from earlier in the application. An interview sounds good, though; demonstrating interest after all. I’m hoping it helped!
Does anyone know how many student they are admitting this year? Looking at the facebook page for the Class of 2019 there seems to be a lot of people already accepted. The last time I checked it was at least 800.
I wish I could change my name to “Batwoman” so if Uchicago rejects me I could say “I’m the superhero Uchicago deserves but not the one it needs right now”
Two things:
- a kid at my school took the gap year. But it's sort of an odd way to put it because you're not using the year to do anything impressive...after all, she was already accepted to chicago. So she took the year and worked full-time and saved TONS of money...and just started this past september. I don't know her super well but friends of hers say that she is really happy.
- on the question @marisa58 had....I was really freaking out a month ago because i didn't do an interview (there was nobody in my area to talk with me) and I didn't have any new big honors to add. So me and a friend flew up there 4 thursdays ago...it was minus 6 degrees when we landed....and hardly anybody was on the tour...they all canceled...so we got to spend a lot of time in the office and we did interviews there...then we went back to the airport...longest 10 hours of my freakin life...but i hold out hope that it had to help some, right?
woah 800 - that’s a lot. For the class of 2018 they accepted 2,304, so I’d expect a similar number this year.
@pwil7070 They will accept approx 2,670 in total and 1,426 will enroll. (based on last year’s data)
The struggle is real! I am super restless lol
I am just hoping to make it through Friday, I remember waiting for the EA decisions. Did anyone hear MIT is releasing decisions on “pie” day 3.1415?
i feel ya, just trying to distract myself with school
Today I tried to distract myself by watching 50 Shades of Grey. You can’t get lower than this 
WHAT. IS. MY. LIFE.
@spiderwoman Based on last year’s yield rate and this year’s application numbers, we’re looking at:
(Assuming 60% yield)
2416 acceptances (for a class of 1450) or 2250 (for 1350)*
Acceptance rate between 7.5 and 8%
*Class sizes have fluctuated between these two numbers, but the college is rather overenrolled at this point so I expect them to go low on the numbers here.
It funny for me to think that this time next week I will finally know where I will be going. All the waiting and stress, I’m afraid to look in the mirror afraid I will see grey hairs.
The yield rate is 55% @kaarboer
@finselmom
Chicago makes some offers to people on the waitlist who are willing to take a gap year; furthermore, any admitted Chicago student can defer a year by choice.
I had my gap year pretty planned out, so I didn’t reach out to the University for guidance, but I’m sure they’d offer it.
@spiderwoman It was 60% last year; there was a press release. 55% was for two years ago.
Edit: ah, here it is. 60.3% as of September. http://www.uchicago.edu/features/new_students_exude_uchicago_pride/
So what is your point exactly? @kaarboer
Okay does anyone know how many EA rejections were handed out?
@spiderwoman I was just updating the numbers based on the math done over in the admissions statistic thread.
the possible 7.5% acceptance rate intimidates me lol @kaarboer
at least it’s better than Stanford’s 5.1%