University of Chicago Class of 2011 Admission

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<p>Early Action</p>

<pre><code> Class of 2011
# Applicants: 3,041
# Admitted: around 1150
% Admitted: 37.8%

Class of 2010
     # Applicants: 2,781
     # Admitted: 1150
     % Admitted: 41%

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<p>Total (Early Action + Regular Decision)</p>

<pre><code> Class of 2011(estimation)
# Applicants: over 10,000
# Admitted: around 3,650
% Admitted: about 36.5%
# Enrolled: around 1250

Class of 2010
     # Applicants: 9,542
     # Admitted: 3,673
     % Admitted: 38.5%
     # Enrolled: 1,260

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<p>There was 9%(260 more applicants) increase in early action poll this year so i'm assuming that the # of total applicants will be little bit over 10,000.</p>

<p>What do u guys think???????</p>

<p>this yr, top colleges received fewer early applications than they did last yr. But chicago received more!!</p>

<p>LET'S GO UNIVERISTY OF CHICAGO!!! WOOHOO</p>

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<p>Are these your estimates?</p>

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<p>just the "estimation" for total class of 2011</p>

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<p>i think it's very accurate lol</p>

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<p>With Chicago's high USNEWs ranking, they will likely recieve more applications, but..... their acceptance rate should not change much as their yield will drop....(sigh)</p>

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<p>"this yr, top colleges received fewer early applications than they did last yr. But chicago received more!!"</p>

<p>That is actually not true; Columbia University, for one, received twice as many ED apps as they did last year.</p>

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<p>why would Chicago's yield drop?</p>

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<p>because a ton of people that would typically get into HYP will now apply to Chicago as its top 10 and then turn it down if they get into a top ivy. </p>

<p>Sickening.</p>

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<p>that has no effect on the percentage admitted, though, which is what people look at.</p>

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<p>This is the only problem with U of C! Its acceptance rate is BS! There is so much more self selection that goes into applying to U of C--only serious applicants apply! If you look at HYP, and weed out the tons of applicants who apply because they're HYP (hip?), Ivy, parents told them to etc. I completely believe the acceptance rates would be similar. I try not to focus on it, but i know its hard not to.</p>

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<p>i agree with the "only serious applicants apply." I thought about applying there because it's the only top 10 school with a near 40% acceptance rate. But the essay prompts just turned me off. Now i kinda regret because i qualify as legacy.</p>

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<p>University of Chicago does not give priority to legacies.</p>

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<p>okay good, i don't feel bad now.</p>

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<p>Well, priority it may not give, but consideration it does. This may be especially true if there is evidence the student really understands what the U of C means as a result of being a legacy. I believe Libby mentioned that in some sense legacies are held to a higher standard.</p>

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<p>36.5% acceptance rate is pretty low, and it surely classifies as selective, if not highly selective. and with the addition of the common application, i'd predict that you can expect it to drop as low as 25% by the time the Class of 2011 graduates. don't underestimate your acceptance to UChicago. you good. :)</p>

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<p>Stats out this year shows the % admitted students for class of 2015 was actually 9.9%.</p>

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<p>Wow, fascinating how much Chicago and Chicago admissions have changed, in just four short years. The Class of 2015 will never know the Class of 2011 . . . crazy times!</p>

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<p>There’s no way this is true. There were about 21,700 applications, and certainly no fewer than 3,600 acceptances (probably a few more than that). The overall acceptance rate was around 17%. Now, if you look at the RD pool alone, there were probably about 17,000 applicants there (including deferred EAs), and maybe 2,200 acceptances, so closer to 10%, but not all the way there.</p>

<p>Still – as this thread shows, a little more than twice as competitive as the class that’s graduating this June. And that class was a lot more competitive than the class that graduated in 2007, which I believe had an admission rate well above 40%. There has really been a massive change in Chicago admissions over the last decade.</p>

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<p>JHS - How do we know that there were “certainly no fewer than 3,600 acceptances” for this past cycle? Last year, Chicago’s yield was 39% for a class of about 1350. As long as yield stays about the same, wouldn’t the acceptances be under 3,600, and possibly closer to 3500? Moreover, if Chicago is looking to improve it’s yield from last year (which could be probably under the Nondorf regime), couldn’t the number of acceptances dip to around 3400? (That’s assuming a 1% yield increase for the incoming class.)</p>

<p>Alternatively, is Chicago again looking to increase its class size to above the current 1350 or so per class?</p>

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<p>Cue7, I don’t think Chicago has accepted fewer than 3,600 students in recent memory, and they seem to have been willing to tolerate entering class sizes over 1,350 if that’s how things worked out. (It was kind of news that their target class size was 1,350. When they announced their class expansion, the target was 1,250 – a target that they never actually hit. Then I think they said “No more than 1,300,” but as far as I know they never got below 1,300, either. Finally a few years ago various communications made clear that the target was 1,350, and that seems to correspond to reality.) </p>

<p>Also, yield has been bouncing around a little, but has generally been below 39%, with no clear directional trend (at least as of last year). From anything I have seen, at most colleges yields tend to change glacially, even if application numbers and other measures of “popularity” increase dramatically.</p>