What kind of kids go to University of Chicago now?

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My husband who is brilliant but on the spectrum went to Chicago. Loved it there. Always says he found his people there.
Not sure if it is still like that.

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Anonymous wrote:My son picked u Chicago over Cornell.

Cornell is the doormat of the Ivy League, there’s like 10 non-ivies that are preferred to Cornell.

Not if you are in CS and Engineering.
CS in U Chicago?????

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Anonymous wrote:100 percent agree on Brown and Cornell

Totally. Chicago is a completely different league.

Yes, the data manipulator league!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Years and years ago when I was there as a grad student, the undergrads were brilliant and quirky, and didn’t seem Uber wealthy or private school types.

I have the feeling that’s changed now. The College is much larger, and there seems to be a lot of emphasis on ED, which means wealth to me. I also hear of kids attending who just would NEVER have chosen Chicago back in the day- they are normal and smart but not brilliant, well rounded etc.

Does someone on here know OLD Chicago and NEW Chicago? Has it changed? Is it still a good, friendly, dorky place, life of the mind? It is it like lots of other schools now?

Thanks in advance.

I think there are two types of students who attend Chicago at least from our selective private school. They take a lot in ED. There are a few that are extremely accomplished academically-they would flourish anywhere. The other type are White, decent at academics, nothing spectacular ECS, that all want to go into IB and Finance. U Chicago takes them in ED and they all study Business Economics.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:100 percent agree on Brown and Cornell

Totally. Chicago is a completely different league.

You guys are nuts. We hire from all of these top schools including Chicago and the Chicago kids don’t stand out from Brown, Yale, Cornell, Harvard, etc. They are all mostly bright and hardworking. We look for the special something that would be a good fit for our company and it is impossible to predict which kid will have it. Chicago students are really not all that special as some of you parents would like to believe.

My kid is at Chicago and I do think it attracts a lot of geeky intellectuals. Like him. But Brown is insanely hard to get into and also attracts intellectuals kids (maybe a bit more of the artsy ones) and Cornell does too. So crazy to compare how smart kids are at these different schools. They do have different vibes but they are all big enough and diverse enough that all kinds of kids will thrive.

[Anonymous]

Chicago is hard, much harder 1) course content and 2) grading. On GPA, I read that Harvard's average GPA is no 3.7. Chicago GPA is much much lower; many classes curve to a 3.0 or lower. I do suspect they are developing an easier track, but the STEM, Economics and all Honors courses are brutal.

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Do the low curve impact grad school admissions or do the grad schools seem to take that into account as compared to schools where most everyone gets As