<p>@ilovekittens </p>
<p>are you serious? their acceptance rate was reduced because they had a 42% increase in applicants not because they reduced it on purpose.</p>
<p>Some people here are so condescending in thinking that UChicago is a “safety” school. People should read the book by Jonathan Cole professor at Columbia University, author of the book ‘The Great American University.’ U of Chicago is a Great University bare none.</p>
<p>^Read that sentence carefully. The Ivies and Duke will always possess their sacred power of ‘the University of Chicago.’ However, this power has not been unlocked yet as only ‘the One (for those who don’t know what I’m talking about…think the Matrix)’ can unlock the power of the University of Chicago. Up until then, thought, the Ivies and Duke will be UChicago-less.</p>
<p>Chicago has many programs that exceed the quality of those nine universities (the Ivy League institutions and Duke).</p>
<p>ilovekittens - I think your view is too myopic. In the 1960s or 1970s, people certainly would not look as Durham, NC as an alluring place to go to college. Now, Duke does indeed have a lot of pull. Similarly, in the future, is it outlandish to think that people might prefer the city of Chicago to Ithaca NY or Hanover, NH? </p>
<p>I don’t know if dropping the acceptance rate is “trying too hard” because I think most teens - like you - tend to have a pretty myopic view of admissions. If, in 2014, Chicago has a 10% accept rate, no applicants will much care that in 2004, Chicago had a 45% accept rate or whatever it was. </p>
<p>The problem is, in terms of selectivity, there is some fluidity and flux within the world of admissions. Students need to keep in mind that schools can change relatively quickly - look at Brown in the 1960s, Penn in the late 90s, Duke in the late 80s, etc etc. Most of the current evidence seems to imply that Chicago’s created some momentum here.</p>
<p>Haha, thanks for the one spot =P</p>
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<p>No. That doesn’t make there be a spot up for grabs. They don’t expect a 100% yield.</p>
<p>As a side note, I personally think that there should be a battle-royale between the waitlisted applicants to decide who gets admitted (when there is space available, that is). Just my opinion.</p>
<p>42 percent increase…sounds like an issue of quality over quantity. Dont matter how many more applicants they have to make their acceptance rates look good. The applicant ppols for Ivies and Duke will always be more competitive and thus having a better standing because more qualified people are trying to apply. Honestly, U of C is a safe school compared to Ivies.</p>
<p>^ Isn’t that person supposed to retract their Chicago application? Well, actually I guess they don’t have to, but if they had no intention of going to Chicago, I don’t understand keeping an application open, It really does take an acceptance from someone else who actually wanted to attend</p>
<p>To compensate for non-attendance, Chicago admits students assuming something like a 2.8:1 admitted-to-yield ratio.</p>
<p>I applied a long time ago to EA…Did u apply?</p>
<p>Why did you apply to a university you seem to abhor so much now?</p>
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<p>Please take this issue up with the Ministry of Magic.</p>
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<p>That is most definitely false! Have you been to Princeton? There is no way you’re safer in the south side of chicago than at that place!</p>
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<p>Wow! So you applied to EA so that you could apply to UChicago? I didn’t know you could apply to apply! Guess you learn something new everyday.</p>
<p>If Chicago wishes to invest the effort to attract more students for the sake of its selectivity, then that is entirely the university’s prerogative. </p>
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<p>Please don’t resort to extremities or relatively baseless presumptions. Based on this year’s spike in applications, Chicago has the fastest growing popularity among top-tier institutions. </p>
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<p>With a projected 12% RD acceptance rate, it is not a true safety net for anyone.</p>
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<p>Wait I don’t get this! Does UoC have a safety net on campus? If so, does lowering the acceptance rate deteriorate the quality of the rope of the net (making it so that it isn’t a ‘true’ safety net, only one there for show? - I’d assume they want one because then in all their viewbooks they can say, “Hey! We have a safety net! Do you? No, no you don’t. Be jealous?”) Someone help me! I’m confused!</p>
<p>Also, whoever said something about the Yale admit retracting their application, NO they are absolutely not required to do that (unless of course they have submitted a deposit to Yale). It is not binding, and they have just as much right to decide as everyone else - saying that that “takes an acceptance away” is utterly foolish.</p>
<p>I for one have decided to take my enthusiasm somewhere, instead of lingering on. The feeling is just diff now. Honestly, I feel Chicago ends up quite different than I envisioned, “commerical” is the word comes to mind. No doubt a great school, but some of the issues related to admissions this yr as compared to similar schools are unmatched. Again, congrats to the acceptees!</p>
<p>And why on earth is it commercial? Because it actually started marketing some?</p>
<p>^ It depends. I know of people who were accepted to MIT early action, and MIT was their absolute first choice. I mean they already paid the deposit and told MIT they were going. But they applied to HYP just to see if they could get in. Yes my friend has the right to do that, but its childish and I stand by what I said " it takes an acceptance from someone else who could have gotten in"</p>
<p>What is ■■■■■■■■? Dont u love my scores they are amazing. and I agree with the guy on U of C and commercialism. Hooray for outer space!</p>