<p>Well, it was nice to get waitlisted. I fully expected rejection...Is this just a courtesy waitlist that they give to almost everyone like WUSTL does?</p>
<p>Much to my dismay, I was waitlisted. No idea whether it is a courtesy or not…</p>
<p>I expected a rejection, too! My essays were terrible in comparison to the ones I wrote for other schools. Does anyone know the time frame the waitlisted decision come out? haha</p>
<p>Very important question: does U Chicago request spring/second semester grades from waitlisted applicants…</p>
<p>I was under the impression they make decisions before 2nd semester grades come out.</p>
<p>I just want the damn pressure to be over…</p>
<p>Agreed! I just want to know where I’m going. All of my friends have it figured out…it’s not fair :(</p>
<p>And how many people usually get off the waitlist? </p>
<p>Anyone have a link to the common data set?</p>
<p>Looking at the results thread, there seems to be more waitlists than rejects (more so than 2014). It seems like they’re practicing what WUSTL does as well: waitlisting the majority of the pool. So personally, I don’t think the chances of getting off the waitlist this year would be too high, but who knows.</p>
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<p>your analysis is incredibly unfounded. duh more waitlisted people are actually going to post in the thread, whereas rejects seldom do.</p>
<p>^It is not incredibly unfounded. If you look at the RD results for 2014, you would see that there are many more rejects than this year.</p>
<p>Time to Budd Dwyer it up!!!</p>
<p>It is unfounded. There are multiple biases that skew the results of this forum.</p>
<p>Bump. Does anyone know the answer to my second semester senior grades question? I’m rather stressed about it… I’m still doing well, but I thought the pressure was off…</p>
<p>I can’t believe I got two waitlists in one week, I’d honestly have rather been rejected from both. I’m pretty sure they make waitlist decisions before grades are over…</p>
<p>Same goldysocks. It’s like
“You’re ok. We’re actually only wait-listing you so we have a back up plan if accepted students don’t feel about us they way we feel about you. Now kill yourself.”</p>
<p>i hate being waitlisted. 10 more days until the rest of my decisions come ahh.
but i mean, it’s the first day - ppl who got rejected probably aren’t in the mood to brag on cc that they’ve been rejected. it just doesn’t make sense.</p>
<p>ppl who are waitlisted on the other hand are more likely to post their stats and stuff so, yeah.</p>
<p>but i am surprised with a lot of the ppl who got waitlisted. why chicago?? i dunno if i what i was expecting for myself - i knew i wasn’t going to be rejected but being waitlisted all the same is painful ;_;. ah brown please take meeeee.</p>
<p>i’m kind of disappointed that i was waitlisted… does anyone know if being waitlisted at uchicago would suggest rejections from ivy leagues? i was rejected scea at stanford, but am dying to get into georgetown and upenn!</p>
<p>I would honestly say at this point, after seeing the RD decisions threads for Wash U and UChicago, that their admissions difficulty for REGULAR decision (not early–ED to Wash U is easier than ED to say, Cornell) is on par with the lower Ivies (i.e. Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, UPenn). In fact, a school like Dartmouth probably takes a higher proportion of underqualified people than Chicago does, because Dartmouth does so much athletic recruiting (Chicago doesn’t strike me as a school that does very much athletic recruiting at all… I know they do some, but not as much as the Ivies it seems).</p>
<p>After looking at the RD thread I can’t help but respectfully disagree with you I V. There are quite a few kids who are waitlisted who have been accepted to ivy leagues and even received likely letters.</p>
<p>^I was taking a conservative standpoint because I thought no one would agree with me. But yes, I also agree the–according to CC threads–admission to UChicago is more similar to that of HYP (and harder than admission to UPenn/Cornell, etc).</p>
<p>Waitlisted bah, at least it wasn’t a rejection…gives me false hope.</p>