<p>I wonder how many people were deferred because everyone at my school and everyone on CC seem to have been.</p>
<p>I may term it rather ironic. The financial situation is not of a concern to Harvard Admission; however, UChicago, on the other hand, bases its decisions on financial need. Now the question is how does that put together a strong class of UChicago if they reject students on the basis of green paper value? A moderately ok student can get in with A, B, C grades, while a strong student can’t as the moderately ok one asks for less aid. </p>
<p>Does this really guarantee a strong talent pool?</p>
<p>UChicago is need-blind for Americans and Canadians, where the vast majority of its student body comes from.</p>
<p>There are enough high-quality international students that you can pick high-quality ones that can pay full price and still get a really strong international student body. Just being real.</p>
<p>^So UChicago is not need blind for internationals?</p>
<p>O__o I had assumed this whole time that the reason I got accepted was because they didn’t know about my FA situation…</p>
<p>Now I feel amazingly lucky and have no idea why they accepted me LOL</p>
<p>＾＾ Congratulations. On the backside of what I said, there are only a limited number of international students that Chicago finds so good that they’re willing to dish out financial support to. You’re apparently part of that group.</p>
<p>Hi5 zmallet. I applied thinking UChicago was need blind and later found they were need based. They gave me an amazing fin aid…more than I had asked for in fact.</p>
<p>dont knw, the financial case can b a liability when u dont knw whether ur application is considered strong or not! :/</p>