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<p>According to my D, there is a very active Facebook page for admittees. Suggest you try there.</p>
<p>Just wondering - does anyone know the numbers of students admitted/deferred/rejected in this round yet? I can’t find that info.</p>
<p>1,200-1,300 admitted, 0 rejected, rest deferred.</p>
<p>People have been rejected…I know I saw at least a couple posts here on cc, and this site is disproportionately inclined towards acceptances and deferrals since it’s such a high-caliber group :)</p>
<p>I know that some applicants have been rejected, and also that early action schools are starting to trend toward outright rejection rather than deferrals. I just don’t understand why these numbers are such a secret at UChicago when other schools announce them almost immediately.</p>
<p>Old habits never die, especially when obfuscation and misdirection has served you well.</p>
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<p>If you feel UofC is some thing you want to pursue, you should not give up so early.You should keep the candle burning until the last minute. It is way to early to throw in the towel. </p>
<p>My DD was deferred/waitlisted by UofC in the Regular round. She had little hope as only handful was able to get in at that point. I told her if you want to pursue and if it is your first choice, you should regularly contact the adcom to express interest. You know what? She was selected at the end of April who was the only few got off the wait list in class of 2014. And she is graduating this coming summer with a potential medical school admission.</p>
<p>Any thoughts in here on why U of C extended it’s application deadline to 1/15. At first it was announced an extension to 1/3 due to common app technical issues and then extended to 1/15…seems odd!!!</p>
<p>The Common App issues didn’t go away so quickly, and lots of kids were panicked. Back before it went on the Common App, Chicago was completely loosey-goosey about deadlines, or at least relatively so. Even before – especially before – the current age of huge application numbers, it was a hallmark of the university that it never wanted to discourage anyone from applying – and few things are more discouraging than a deadline you don’t feel able to meet.</p>
<p>The old policy was really cute. Everyone else had their deadlines stated as EST or CST or maybe PST. At Chicago, the rule was that you were on time if it was still the due date anywhere in the world. </p>
<p>The cynics will say they just want to boost their application numbers to look more selective, and maybe the cynics are right. So what? If their staff can handle the processing and make decisions on time, and if they get 2-3 kids to enroll who wouldn’t otherwise have gotten applications in, then what’s wrong with giving people more time?</p>
<p>I’m just depressed because I know the decisions will only come out in late March, now. Last year it was around March 15?</p>
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<p>Extending the deadlines is a benefit for the applicants. The few more applications are not really important as they are a drop in the bucket. Further I also doubt that the deadlines are cast in stone at any schools. Years ago a friend who worked at Harvard shared a picture of the mail room filled to the ceiling with tons of FedEx or USPS boxes. The pictures was taken several weeks AFTER the deadlines. All the angst of getting the papers in and the extra expenses to use FedEx was in naught. </p>
<p>Fwiw, one --like me-- can be a huge critic of the lack of transparency, the past policies that RESTRICTED the applications with inane requirements, and the deliberate obfuscation of data AND applaud when the admissions’ offices extend courtesies to consider all the possible applications, including the ones that are late, and often not through the fault of the applicants but because of incompetent, clueless, and callous GC and teachers at the high school.</p>
<p>This said, and back to the context of THIS thread, the lack of response from your resident Chicago representative is telling about what the school deems essential or important to share or … continue to hide for no good reasons.</p>
<p>Perhaps, one should send them an abacus to help count the admissions envelopes. To help remain uncommon!</p>
<p>Current student here. I talked to someone in admissions today and they said they admitted 4% something early and 4% something regular, for a 4% something total admit rate.</p>
<p>Hi Mathned1! I’m a high school senior who just got waitlisted. Did the admissions person say anything about waitlists? A friend of mine told me that her friend that worked in admissions said something along the lines of “UChicago has waitlisted fewer people this year”, so do I have some sort of a chance in getting in? I know last year they didn’t accept anyone from the waitlist, so I’m curious.</p>
<p>@mathnerd - with a 9.5% drop in the number of applications this year, I truly doubt that the acceptance rate dropped from 8.8% to 4% this year. Not possible… If anything, the acceptance rate probably went up a bit. Even factoring in a higher yield this year, the acceptance rate is probably about 9.0 - 9.3%</p>
<p>Maybe the admissions person meant 4 something of the total application population EA and 4 something of the total population RD. I don’t know. But 4% is too low. That’s Stanford range. More likely the overall admit % will be in the 9 - 9.5 % range, as cba says above.</p>
<p>If I recall correctly, the university spokesperson has said that the acceptance rate should be roughly the same as last year. Given that comment, with the assumption of the incoming Class size of 1400 and the guesstimate yield of, say, 58% (slight jump of 56% from last year), the total matriculating number will be 2,413 with which to be divided by total apps of 27,499, voila, it would give you 8.77% of total acceptance rate. </p>
<p>Does anyone know how many people they actually waitlist? Because I feel as though a huge chunk of individuals whom I know applied got waitlisted, and many of them far more qualified than myself. </p>
<p>It will come when it comes, probably some time in the next few days. </p>
<p>In December, I asked the UChicago Admissions Tumblr when stats for this year would come out, and they said that they would be released in May.</p>
<p>But wouldn’t that include yield too since students don’t commit until May 1?</p>