What schools are most like UChicago 20 years ago?

[Anonymous]

What schools are most similar to UChicago up until maybe 2010? Smart kids who were intellectual and not obsessed with consulting, tech, etc. Not super pre-professional and striver, but kids that still cared about school. Mix of middle and upper class kids, but not materialistic. I talk to alums and it’s apparently changed a lot, even in the last ten years. MIT? Brown?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What schools are most similar to UChicago up until maybe 2010? Smart kids who were intellectual and not obsessed with consulting, tech, etc. Not super pre-professional and striver, but kids that still cared about school. Mix of middle and upper class kids, but not materialistic. I talk to alums and it’s apparently changed a lot, even in the last ten years. MIT? Brown?

Carleton

[Anonymous]

Claremont McKenna

[Anonymous]

Rice

[Anonymous]

Rice
Tufts
SLACs like Bates Bowdoin

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna

Great school, but my friend with kid there now said it’s very preprofessional and full of future consultants /finance types

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna

Great school, but my friend with kid there now said it’s very preprofessional and full of future consultants /finance types

Yeah it’s known as a feeder to the street

[Anonymous]

yes, my son wants the Bro, pre-professional, wall-street scene and people continually recommend Claremont Mckenna to him.

I would avoid C.M. if he wants old-school U Chicago vibes. I had a good friend there in the mid 90s and know what you're talking about.

[Anonymous]

All top schools have pockets of consulting obsessed. So do many lower schools. It is just a trend. The smart intellectually curious types are still at all the top schools too, in large numbers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rice

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna

This was probably intended as a joke or the poster who suggested CMC knows very little about CMC.

OP, you are seeking the opposite of CMC.

Reed College in Oregon.

Grinnell College in Iowa.

Bates College in Maine--maybe, but the academics are nowhere close to U Chicago, Reed, or Grinnell.

Wesleyan, Vassar, Oberlin if super liberal. Kenyon College in Ohio, but academics not anywhere near the level of U Chicago.

St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and in Annapolis, Maryland.

College of William & Mary in Virginia.

Brown due to super easy grading policies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What schools are most similar to UChicago up until maybe 2010? Smart kids who were intellectual and not obsessed with consulting, tech, etc. Not super pre-professional and striver, but kids that still cared about school. Mix of middle and upper class kids, but not materialistic. I talk to alums and it’s apparently changed a lot, even in the last ten years. MIT? Brown?

Carleton

Agreed

[Anonymous]

consulting is a dead end street atm. good riddance

[Anonymous]

I am wondering if the OPs kid actually wants this, or if it’s something the OP thinks her kid should want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna

This was probably intended as a joke or the poster who suggested CMC knows very little about CMC.

OP, you are seeking the opposite of CMC.

Reed College in Oregon.

Grinnell College in Iowa.

Bates College in Maine--maybe, but the academics are nowhere close to U Chicago, Reed, or Grinnell.

Wesleyan, Vassar, Oberlin if super liberal. Kenyon College in Ohio, but academics not anywhere near the level of U Chicago.

St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and in Annapolis, Maryland.

College of William & Mary in Virginia.

Brown due to super easy grading policies.

none of these are like the chicago of my day (class of 92)