<p>So.......................................... yeah I'm a little surprised and just what the title says.</p>
<p>I feel the exact same. Chicago was the least selective school on my list of private schools, and judging from other’s responses, my interview, and lots of other things, I thought I had this in the bag. So naturally, I was a bit surprised.
However, it’s a great school and lots of worthier people got in. Perhaps they’ll have too many cross-admits with HYPSM and will end up taking a ton off the waitlist (how many did they waitlist anyway?). Either way, Chicago’s appeal is definitely lacking and even if I got off the waitlist, I won’t be attending.
I’m just horribly depressed at my prospects for my super-selective LAC, Stanford, and my two Ivy’s. D:</p>
<p>come on man! I got rejected. not even a waitlist!!! guess I am too “scientific” for UChicago…not a bit interest in humanities…</p>
<p>Waitlisted, and yeah, Chicago was on the least selective school on my list too.
Forget Ivy’s, I’m worried about LACs too now.</p>
<p>You got waitlisted. You obviously must be somewhat intelligent. Think seriously about what you just asked and if you can’t come up with a conclusive answer relatively quickly then, well, be grateful that you somehow got waitlisted.</p>
<p>Also, the acceptance rate was supposed to be something around 12% for RD. I don’t see how UChicago could be the ‘least selective’ school on your list given that there are so few that have RD acceptance rates that are lower than that (and, though I might be wrong on this, no LACs with a lower acceptance rate).</p>
<p>Given the often inscrutable nature of college admissions, a waitlist at a less selective university is not a very useful predictive measure of a worse fate at more selective universities.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to freak you out, but I got rejected early from Stanford back in December and just got waitlisted at Chicago and wustl. good luck, though. I’m waiting to hear from Princeton, but I, too, don’t see good news.</p>
<p>I meant this more as a rant type of thread…but I’m in the exact same boat as drpvv. </p>
<p>I don’t want to sound arrogant but I honestly didn’t think twice about Uof Chicago. Of course it was definitely more difficult this year, but my GC had made it seem like it would be a low match/ match for me. My stats and ECs aren’t that good but before applying I checked my stats on Naviance with previous accepted students, and their GPA/ SAT is considerably lower. I’m not totally bawling my eyes out because I have at least one school I can go to.</p>
<p>I just hope it won’t be rejection after rejection after rejection on April fool’s day:(</p>
<p>If UChicago admits the same amount of students as last year, the acceptance rate will be 19% this year. hardly a sure thing for anyone. just because you didn’t get in to UChicago doesn’t mean you won’t get in at equal or more selective schools. you have to realize that you are dealing with schools that have many, many qualified applicants, and that there will be many, many “better students” than you rejected, and many “lesser” students accepted. it’s just with the acceptance rate so low, they can’t accept all qualified applicants.</p>
<p>it’s all a crapshoot when 19,000 people compete for 3,700 acceptances… or 30,000 people for 2,800 acceptances at harvard. the numbers are just too big.</p>
<p>Wait wait wait - I’m confused. Maybe a few years back when Chicago had a 40% accept rate, then sure, you can apply and think you have a U of C acceptance in the bag.</p>
<p>How, though, does that happen THIS year?! Everyone knew that Chicago’s applicant pool grew by 42%, and that should’ve at least triggered how tough Chicago admissions is becoming. I don’t know how people can look at schools like Chicago, Duke, Cornell, Penn, etc. as “backups” or “in the bag” these days - especially this year. I mean what did you guys think were your “target” schools if places with accept rates in the teens (like Duke and Chicago) were the “safety” schools??</p>
<p>Motion: My private school list is relatively short: Stanford, Brown, Yale, UofC, and Pomona College. Obviously Stanford, Yale, and Brown have smaller acceptance rates.
As for Pomona, I was rather judging my admission to UofC on last year’s acceptance rate, which with the 42% increase in apps, was obviously a mistake. Nevertheless, Chicago’s 20-something % admission rate last year was more than Pomona’s 16% admission rate. Both had an increase in apps, and if you strip away the ED/EA acceptances for both, you’d be left with a relatively similar rate for both, somewhere around 12%. I am sure I’m not entirely incorrect with saying that these schools are as equally, if not more, selective as UofC.</p>
<p>And by far I am not judging my admission to colleges as the indicator of my intelligence and what I’m capable of. Neither did I say I was ungrateful for whatever decision I was granted.</p>
<p>Chicago wasn’t my safety, but it was one I was hopeful for.
More than anything else, irrationally though, I’m worried for the others. If it indeed was 12% acceptance rate, it’s not bad, otherwise, I’m doomed for the other colleges. Yes, doomed is my state of mind currently. </p>
<p>Wait, I sound pathetic :P</p>
<p>LOl ^ Don’t worry I’m doomed to a exponentially large, unattached, and lonely UC, if Chicago’s rate really is much higher.</p>
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<p>Well, you sound pretty arrogant to me. There were some incredible people (aka srrinath and most of the incredibly intelligent people that got deferred EA that, I’m assuming, got rejected because they’re no longer posting here) that got flat out rejected and you seem to have taken offense by the fact that you got waitlisted. To be quite honest, that just enrages me.</p>
<p>^^ Wow, Collegestress! I am in the exact same boat. If anything, I am also doomed to a bankrupt UC.</p>
<p>you are not doomed. i got admitted to chicago, and i’m fairly certain that i’m not qualified to get into harvard princeton yale or whatever universities you have in your silly acronyms. pt is uchicago admits people weirdly. many of you have good stats, and you’ll probably get into the schools you want to. uchicago’s just weird like that.</p>
<p>I think Chicago is trying to hard to reach the same name as Ivies so they reduced their acceptance rate. I am sorry to say this but they can reduce it as much as they want cause the Ivies and Duke will always have greater power of University of Chicago. I mean cmon going from a 40 percent rate to 20…that is just kinda sad and trying a little to hard.</p>
<p>@motion12345, I’m aware that many very talented and higher scoring people than me got rejected. Like I said before, I was just surprised because previous people from my school had 3.5 GPAs and lower than 2000 SATs and still got in. Again, with the extreme encouragement from my GC, I applied to a ton of top schools because I actually thought I had a chance, since “worst” applicants from my school had gotten in. I’m glad that I was waitlisted instead of rejected and I’m not offensed by it, only slightly surprised</p>
<p>^You’re right. The University of Chicago admissions office used magic (of course, with the help of Harry Potter) to make an additional 42% applications (relative to last year) appear. They could have just been fair and like all the other universities and spammed you with viewbooks instead! However, they might be in trouble…you’re not allowed to use magic outside of Hogwarts!</p>
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<p>What verification do you have for making that statement?</p>