U Chicago - Experience?

[Anonymous]

Intense, yes. Not competitive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son loves it there.
He was in a private school and he said the load is more manageable than his high school.
He goes to downtown every week or other and enjoy the city.super easy commute.

It’s 30 minutes each way Uber or 1 hour each way by public transport — through some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the US. Easy? What exactly motives an alleged parent to lie about this?

lol, +1

If only there was some way to drive along the lake shore . . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son loves it there.
He was in a private school and he said the load is more manageable than his high school.
He goes to downtown every week or other and enjoy the city.super easy commute.

It’s 30 minutes each way Uber or 1 hour each way by public transport — through some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the US. Easy? What exactly motives an alleged parent to lie about this?

Sure, if you consider Hyde Park and Lake Shore Drive the most dangerous areas in America. You can take an express bus or alerts and be downtown in 30 minutes. Stop off at the Museum of Science and Industry, the Shedd Aquarium, Art Institute. This route is hardly scary or dangerous!

[Anonymous]

My DS is a UChicago sophomore. He loves it. He went to an MD public and has done very well. He has had some great profs and is very involved in one school supported club. it was the only place he applied and he is very happy he is there. Law, Letters and Society major and an International Relations minor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son loves it there.
He was in a private school and he said the load is more manageable than his high school.
He goes to downtown every week or other and enjoy the city.super easy commute.

It’s 30 minutes each way Uber or 1 hour each way by public transport — through some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the US. Easy? What exactly motives an alleged parent to lie about this?

Sure, if you consider Hyde Park and Lake Shore Drive the most dangerous areas in America. You can take an express bus or alerts and be downtown in 30 minutes. Stop off at the Museum of Science and Industry, the Shedd Aquarium, Art Institute. This route is hardly scary or dangerous!

All those terrifying neighborhoods bordering campus and your route to and from downtown, how do scary criminals living there get to and from downtown? Do they teleport?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is hardly dangerous to go from Hyde Park to the loop, Near North, Wicker Park, Lincoln Park, etc. If you say otherwise, you are simply parroting what you *think* you know from inside some right wing bubble that thinks Chicago is some dangerous hell scape.

Our niece is there and she is having a great time. (Went to a private outside Philadelphia). She reports some classes are difficult, but manageable. Only dislike is the pace of the quarter system.

Over half the freshman and sophomores live in Woodlawn. No undergrads are routinely hanging out in Wicker Park and Lincoln Park. But it’s interesting you’re calling people Fox News MAGA nuts or whatever when you’re tripping over yourself to namedrop white yuppy neighborhoods. Why don’t you tell us how amazing Southside neighborhoods are? Woodlawn, Washington Park, Englewood.

[Anonymous]

Woodlawn dorm is quite different from the Woodlawn neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

How did the ED2 round go this year? Were there a lot of acceptances? I would have lived for my kid to go there but alas kid didn’t want to apply ED

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How did the ED2 round go this year? Were there a lot of acceptances? I would have lived for my kid to go there but alas kid didn’t want to apply ED

Don’t think ED2 is out yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did the ED2 round go this year? Were there a lot of acceptances? I would have lived for my kid to go there but alas kid didn’t want to apply ED

Don’t think ED2 is out yet.

It came out last Friday, February 10th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Woodlawn dorm is quite different from the Woodlawn neighborhood.

lol riiiiiiiiight

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Woodlawn dorm is quite different from the Woodlawn neighborhood.

Most of the dorms, plural, are in the Woodlawn neighborhood. As are residential apartments popular with upperclassmen students and several Greek houses i.e. parties. But UChicago doesn't want wealthy parents googling Woodlawn, so they use HYDE PARK with all their marketing.

[Anonymous]

security on the campus is very high.
I did my residency at Boston city hospital, by far more dangerous than U Chicago but you never hear about it.
Honestly any where in USA could be dangerous if some one crazy shows up with a gun at your school or any where else for that matter.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, even U of C’s admin for their Student Emergency Response System has been a crime victim (at least 2x already). Maroon upper admin do love to drape everything in HYDE PARK, true.

https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-crime-woman-attacked-robbed-at-gunpoint/12702982/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is hardly dangerous to go from Hyde Park to the loop, Near North, Wicker Park, Lincoln Park, etc. If you say otherwise, you are simply parroting what you *think* you know from inside some right wing bubble that thinks Chicago is some dangerous hell scape.

Our niece is there and she is having a great time. (Went to a private outside Philadelphia). She reports some classes are difficult, but manageable. Only dislike is the pace of the quarter system.

Over half the freshman and sophomores live in Woodlawn. No undergrads are routinely hanging out in Wicker Park and Lincoln Park. But it’s interesting you’re calling people Fox News MAGA nuts or whatever when you’re tripping over yourself to namedrop white yuppy neighborhoods. Why don’t you tell us how amazing Southside neighborhoods are? Woodlawn, Washington Park, Englewood.

Students don't really go to the neighboring southside neighborhoods.
The most dangerous thing a student would likely do is go up to 53rd at midnight to get some Harold's.

The insinuation was that students would be in danger going to "Chicago" - the neighborhoods listed are where they would go on a Saturday afternoon.

And yes, if you think the UChicago is in some sort of super dangerous place, then you are a MAGA nut that is drinking the koolaid. I'm sure you would have the same issues with students going to Johns Hopkins, Tufts, UPenn, etc. etc. Give it a rest.