Where Fun Goes to Die - UChicago?
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Anonymous
sooo true - will add Hopkins to this category |
Anonymous
Yes. PP with Chicago experience who also has Hopkins experience. |
Anonymous
| Chicago kids are not “quirky” they are standard issue grade-grubbing strivers. |
Anonymous
| Yes - the kids who play sports are more mainstream and preppy, but also intellectual - parent of kids who play competitive sports there and love U Chicago. |
Anonymous
It is a great school if you can put up with city living and the not so great surrounding neighborhoods. My brother was a great athlete but even better student. His first choice was Chicago. He loved the intellectual atmosphere. We visited often as the school had a nationally famous track club - not a varsity sport but a track club which used the university facilities. Ted Haydon had Olympians at the club. The track was adjacent to the Manhattan Project building and we always felt we were close to a significant place in history. We did not traipse west into Washington Park or south of 61st. My brother and I were from a dirt poor single mother home with lots of problems and could not swing Chicago financially. My brother went a well known public school on athletic scholarship and had a 4.0 in math. A multiple D1 All American, he submitted a transfer application to Chicago but again just could not swing it financially (he was on a full athletic ride at his school). He finally did get admitted to their Phd program in Econ with fellowship money. He valued the intellectual experience so highly that he turned down better financial offers. Chicago is intense academically but it is a wonderfully challenging place. My brother was a popular athlete with good social skills and certainly was physically very tough and unsparing, but he liked the nerd factor at Chicago and found it made the place special. I was not as mature as my brother and never felt up to the Chicago challenge. I did go to a very highly ranked school, one of the two in the top 10 which gives athletic scholarships. There the challenge was more social given the wealth and pedigree of the student body and I wish I had been more focused to go to a school like Chicago. They wouldn't have cared a bit if I was poor. |
Anonymous
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My boss/owner went to the University of Chicago. He really is a genius. He is successful at business because of his extreme work ethic. He also was a very good manager.
Two of our key employees, our office manager and our factory production manager were high school graduates without any college. Both were smart in their own way. The boss/owner was really respectful of the two key employees and leaned on them for a lot of things. Overall he was a really nice guy, a smart guy but a nice guy. |
Anonymous
| This past year we attended a U of Chicago admissions event. Put a fine point on no grade inflation (is there grade inflation at Ivy's/T20 schools was what I wondered to myself - love to hear anyone's insight there) and that former straight A/mostly A and a few B students had to adjust to now getting B's etc. |
Anonymous
What do you gain by saying stuff like this? |
Anonymous
My kid has gotten tons of mail from them. Would never actually be accepted. What a waste of postage and paper. |
Anonymous
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I have a TJ grad and there were a small number of colleges whose *undergrad programs* had reputation of being “miserable even after 4 years at TJ”: Chicago, MIT, CMU, and JHU
No dog in this fight. My kid graduated, applied to not these particular schools, attended not these particular schools (or close competitors) and college worked out well. Not sitting here nursing my bitterness over rejections. I’ve just heard that the kids at those 4 schools are often miserable. |
Anonymous
Nope, Hopkins is very pre professional, Greek life is popular and has D1 lacrosse and very competitive D3 sports. Very different experience. |
Anonymous
Adding I’m a Hopkins alum, |
Anonymous
My quirky kid used to describe some friends as "econ bros". I don't know how bro-ey they actually are but I gathered the econ students are typically less quirky. They have sports fans and preppy kids, too. |
Anonymous
This is my child to a T. Very happy there. |
Anonymous
| It's a joke from decades ago that got out of hand. |