University of Chicago Laboratory Schools

Chicago · IL · Private independent · K-12 combined

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Your state's public flagship

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

44%
admit rate
$16,004
in-state tuition/yr · $35,124 out-of-state
1270–1510
SAT 25–75 · ACT 29–34

The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $14,355/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.

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Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.

Their published matriculation list

Where their graduates enrolled

University of Chicago Laboratory Schools publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 96 colleges, ordered by the number of students enrolled.

Years, as the document states them
past four years

College  ·  Students

University of Chicago 72
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 49
Northwestern University 21
University of Michigan 20
Washington University in St. Louis 15
Harvard University 14
Columbia University 13
New York University 12
University of Wisconsin-Madison 11
Carleton College 10
Cornell University 10
Stanford University 10
Indiana University 9
Macalester College 9
Princeton University 9
Purdue University 9
Vanderbilt University 9
Tufts University 8
Yale University 8
Case Western Reserve University 7
Georgetown University 7
Oberlin College 7
Brown University 6
Sarah Lawrence College 6
Scripps College 6
Syracuse University 6
University of Illinois Chicago 6
Haverford College 5
Loyola University Chicago 5
Barnard College 4
and 66 more
McGill University 4
University of Toronto 4
Union College 3
Southern Illinois University Carbondale 2
The American University of Paris 2
University of St. Andrews 2

These graduates went on to the colleges above.

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Independently verified As published by University of Chicago Laboratory Schools — Where do U-High Graduates Go? ↗. Found at: "Where do U-High Graduates Go?" table ("In the past four years, students from the Laboratory Schools have matriculated to the following colleges, universities, .

About this listing

University of Chicago Laboratory Schools is listed by NAIS + founder list. It has not reported to the federal Private School Survey, which is voluntary, so enrollment figures are not available here — many of the country's oldest independent schools are in the same position. The school's own site: www.ucls.uchicago.edu ↗

Not enough enrollment history on file to chart a trend for this school yet.

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