[tptacek]

As someone who would have been of age to apply to Chicago 20 years ago, lived in Chicago, and went to a Chicago college prep high school, it surprises me to hear the suggestion that Chicago had an acceptance rate comparable to that of Madison today. That sounds pretty high! It was perceived as an Ivy-grade reach school back then, and that's at a school that sent lots of people to Ivies.

[jackcosgrove]

> In 2006 Harvard accepted 9.3 percent of its undergrad applicants. Meanwhile the College accepted 38 percent, compared to 71 percent in 1996.

https://magazine.uchicago.edu/0612/issue/president.shtml