UChicago or Princeton? Is UChicago more like a peer to Duke?

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Anonymous wrote:U. Chicago is like a peer to Oberlin or Macalester, not Duke or HYPS.

Dream on.

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UChicago and Brown are "hot" colleges right now.

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Anonymous wrote:What are you talking about? If you think Chicago is a peer to Duke, you clearly don't know either school.

UChicago is tricky is all. Do you believe it's a peer to Yale, as US News currently indicates (both tied at no.3)? Do you think Princeton is no.1? I don't believe either.

Why is Chicago tricky?

Because it's 'where fun goes to die.'

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago has frats and sororities. Most of the frat houses are on University Ave.

It's called Geek Life, not Greek Life there.

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago and Brown are "hot" colleges right now.

Always have been.

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Parchment claims Duke wins head-to-head vs. UChicago, 60/40.

Chicago beats Princeton, 60/40.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/04/upshot/college-picks.html

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago and Brown are "hot" colleges right now.

Always have been.

All the cool kids want to go to them. 10-15 years ago this certainly wasn't the case.

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago and Brown are "hot" colleges right now.

Always have been.

All the cool kids want to go to them. 10-15 years ago this certainly wasn't the case.

Well, by all means, let's have the "cool kids" determine what's hot or not.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe Princeton, Yale, Harvard and Chicago are all peers.

No snark, what makes you say that? I respect the hell out of Chicago but it just seems like it lacks the brandpower, no? If you had to name a college just under PYHC what would they be? Columbia, Duke or Penn?

you lost me there. obviously, you know nothing about Chicago.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe Princeton, Yale, Harvard and Chicago are all peers.

No snark, what makes you say that? I respect the hell out of Chicago but it just seems like it lacks the brandpower, no? If you had to name a college just under PYHC what would they be? Columbia, Duke or Penn?

you lost me there. obviously, you know nothing about Chicago.

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This! I think someone is hung up on the concept that top school is located in "gasp" flyover company.

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Funny, today NYT referred Barron's 2009 index, where the most elite “Ivy plus” colleges include the eight colleges of the Ivy League in addition to Stanford, the University of Chicago, Duke and M.I.T. So, according to The Times, Duke is a peer to UChicago and Princeton.

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Anonymous wrote:Parchment claims Duke wins head-to-head vs. UChicago, 60/40.

Chicago beats Princeton, 60/40.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/04/upshot/college-picks.html

Yeah but that's kids who applied to both Duke and Chicago. Most Chicago kids have zero interest in Duke. Kids who applied to both wanted Duke but were hedging their bets with Chicago. Or really wanted HYPS and were hedging their bets with both Duke and Chicago.

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Anonymous wrote:My DC is a non-stem student at Yale and has met many U of C kids at various activities. For a student into political theory, philosophy, economics and similar fields, Yale and U of C seem very similar. Duke is a different animal -- the athletic emphasis alone is very different.

The difference may be that, at UChicago, many of the kids who are into political theory, philosophy, etc. are the STEM kids, LOL! I think U of C's killer app is for intellectual kids who are torn between science and humanities. (From what I've seen, preprofessional kids of the same type tend to gravitate to Columbia). It's a Core thing, I suspect. Not sure of the extent to which it's a draw to these kids vs a repellant to kids who aren't like this, but either way you end up with a larger than usual cohort of kids with a foot in each camp (and/or who resist the divide).

Chicago MAKES people into what you describe as "intellectuals". It's like a thing on campus to become weird and "Chicago".

My kid's there now. Doesn't seem accurate. I guess you could say that, in some cases, closet intellectuals tend to "come out" at U of C. But it's not about becoming weird so much as being in an environment where the thing that, in the past, made people think you were weird now seems normal and laudable. And you have more playmates!

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Anonymous wrote:Parchment claims Duke wins head-to-head vs. UChicago, 60/40.

Chicago beats Princeton, 60/40.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/04/upshot/college-picks.html

Yeah but that's kids who applied to both Duke and Chicago. Most Chicago kids have zero interest in Duke. Kids who applied to both wanted Duke but were hedging their bets with Chicago. Or really wanted HYPS and were hedging their bets with both Duke and Chicago.

The same is true, of course, where Princeton is concerned. Most Princeton kids have zero interest in Chicago.

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Why do you say that? I would think both schools attract intellectual kids who aren't afraid of tough work.