A high placed U Chicago admission official commented that only 75 students have thus far turned down offers of admission. The source added that the turns downs are so rare that he is nearly capable of commenting on the reasons for these 75 turn downs on a case by case basis, which seems startling in the in the context of +/- 30,000 applicants. The last part of the conversation disclosed that over a half dozen Harvard cross commits have already selected U Chicago. It appears likely the big news of this season from U Chicago will revolve around what is sure to be record yield, but which may even turn out to be a national record for yield.
I came away from the conversation wondering what type of cultural reverberations--both in the near and long term--U Chicago would feel from being nearly every one of their incoming student’s first choice school.
Here is the WSJ link that also coincided with this conversation.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chicago-lures-more-companies-returning-to-downtown-1491903004
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