Title says it all- just curious! Or, what did you turn Chicago down in favor of?
Cambridge.
I would turn down nearly everything for Chicago, but to fully answer your question: University of Massachusetts Amherst Commonwealth Honors College at in-state tuition (would have saved like 200k if I had gone here), Northeastern w/ Merit Scholarship, and I’m full pay for Chicago by the way; would have at least seen decisions for Penn (I got deferred and later withdrew my application; in hindsight it was a serious mistake to apply ED), Columbia (this is the only school I would even consider going to over Chicago, but I would still almost certainly choose Chicago unless Columbia gave me at least a little bit of FA), and a bunch of other schools I would have applied to that would have required serious FA for me to choose over Chicago, let alone (e.g. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Brown, Cornell, Duke, WashU (would go if I got one of those really cool scholarships), Georgetown, or University of Michigan.)
Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Heard bad stories about how mud bloods are treated there
Turn down for what?!
Columbia and Berkeley
I would imagine the main schools with which Chicago shares the most cross admits are (in no particular order): Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Northwestern and Penn
@Boothie007 It’s interesting you say that. I was accepted at Berkeley, waitlisted at Chicago, and rejected at Columbia, Cornell, Duke, and Penn. One of my friends got in to Cornell, Duke, and Penn, but was rejected at Columbia and Chicago.
My D turned down WUSTL, Emory, Casewestern and Grinnell. She was accepted to UChicago EA which was her top choice. She would have applied to other colleges including one Ivy but decided that nothing else would top it so did not apply. Grinnell was very hard for her to turn down. If she had been given more merit she may have gone there.
@Boothie007 The Columbia cross-admit phenomenon makes a lot of sense to me (core curriculum, traditional academic values), and maybe Berkeley too (out of state admits likely have very high test scores, which matters a lot to Chicago), but Penn, Duke, Northwestern, and Cornell phenomena do not. Those schools have a very different culture than that found at Chicago, both socially and academically. It seems to me that kids seeking the rigor at Chicago wouldn’t fit in well at those schools. I’m wondering why, in your opinion, Chicago doesn’t share more cross-admits with its US News ranking determined peers: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford (to name top 4 schools besides Columbia).
Northwestern makes some sense. They probably get a lot of Chicago-area applicants who also apply to UChicago.
Columbia, Yale, but got rejected from Harvard hahahahahahhahahah