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You'll notice that nowhere does UChicago publish the specific acceptance rates by the stream of binding versus nonbinding. They never will (unless they are forced to under massive public pressure). This is intentional because they don't want you to actually think about this too deeply and try and game their attempt to game you. On their Class of 2024 admissions pagessss1 for example, they list only that they accepted 2,511 students, enrolled 1,848 students, and had 34,372 applicants. This translates to a mind-blowing yield rate of 73.6%. This is only beaten by Harvard and Stanford with 81–82% yield rates. UChicago beats MIT, Princeton, Yale, UPenn, and Dartmouth on yield rate. Arguably, all of these other colleges are usually more desirable for applicants than UChicago, but through designing an application process that ruthlessly filters kids, they have been able to game their yield rate and shoot above their peer schools landing at an enviable US News ranking.ssss1

I hope UChicago doesn't get too angry at me for revealing their strategy, but power to the student I say!