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unfortunately, there's no waitlist at UChicago (the delay between acceptances and rejections is because of the MA programs); the department admits with an anticipated yield in mind, and if people turn down their spots, the spot is just gone for that cycle. 20 people, 5 in each subfield, were admitted this year.

i've claimed one (and i think at least one other person in the forum did too); Chicago sent out admissions on February 10

I was admitted to UChicago (departmental letter on Feb 10, followed by official admissions letter from the division on Feb 14), and my portal doesn't show any request for an official transcript—the only required form it's asking for is a reply to the offer of admissions—so I'm not sure I'd read anything into that.

we've been asked to RSVP by March 13; the visiting days are the end of the first week of April.

i was also admitted to UChicago for theory!

Please don't worry about the Chicago supposed rejection—as @e2e4 said, and as the record of the past years shows, Chicago is famously bad at releasing rejections in a timely way, precisely because it sends so many files it rejects from the PhD program on to the MA programs. No one's going to be rejected by UChicago for about a month.