University of Chicago Admission

University of Chicago 2021-2022 Essay Prompts

July 9, 2021

Which highly selective school traditionally asks applicants to answer the weirdest essay question? That would be the University of Chicago — and this year will be no different. The institution has released its essay prompts for the 2021-2022 admissions cycle and, consistent with years past, things get weird fast (which …

University of Chicago Class of 2023 Admissions Statistics

March 31, 2019

The University of Chicago has released its Regular Decision notifications to the Class of 2023. In all, between the Early and Regular Decision rounds, UChicago received just under 35,000 applications. This figure stood at 32,291 for the UChicago Class of 2022. The overall admit rate for the Class of 2023 …

A Salute to the University of Chicago

March 20, 2019

The University of Chicago, through a new partnership with the nonprofit Posse Foundation, has launched a new program to offer support to select veterans enrolling at the school. In all, 12 University of Chicago students — who have served in in four of our nation’s five military branches — are …

University of Chicago Goes Test-Optional

June 14, 2018

In a college admissions bombshell, the University of Chicago, one of our nation’s most elite universities, has announced that it will go test-optional for domestic undergraduate applicants beginning next year. In so doing, the school — which is ranked in a tie for #3 with Yale University in the 2018 …