What schools are most like UChicago 20 years ago?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

This. My kid is at UChicago. Lots of econ bros. But the old school intellectual is alive and well on campus.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna

Great school, but my friend with kid there now said it’s very preprofessional

“Preprofessional” like it’s an auto mechanic or dental hygienist school 🙄

Are we… pretending we don’t want our kids to have good jobs after they graduate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

This. My kid is at UChicago. Lots of econ bros. But the old school intellectual is alive and well on campus.

That is great to hear!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna

Great school, but my friend with kid there now said it’s very preprofessional

“Preprofessional” like it’s an auto mechanic or dental hygienist school 🙄

Are we… pretending we don’t want our kids to have good jobs after they graduate?

No. I think it’s a question of relative focus. Some prefer an environment where there’s a discernible passion for academic exploration in depth and breadth, some prefer an environment where there’s comparatively more attention on specific career networking and entry. I think every school has a degree of both, some are known for more of one or the other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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)

Fair comment, but I made this list based on OP's perception of U Chicago as revealed by her parameters in the initial post in this thread. Otherwise, I would have just listed Carleton College.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rice
Tufts
SLACs like Bates Bowdoin

Absolutely positively not Tufts Encampment. It’s one long canceling protest now. That still employs trigger warnings

[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.

Most of these are a big NO if the criterion for Chicago (Principles) is real uncensored freedom to express divergent or heterodox views. Bates?!?

If instead the driver criterion is intellectual pondering for the sake of great thoughts— income or ROI be damned — then okay. But I will stand by my assertion that CMC fits if the test is whether an unpopular speaker / op-ed / comment in class is allowed to go forward without being shouted down. As was (and still is) the case with Chicago

[Anonymous]

Who would know this? These questions are getting so ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who would know this? These questions are getting so ridiculous.

People who attended or have friends or family who attended then and now. Those who worked at schools mentioned. College counselors who have been around 20+ years.

There’s a degree of uncertainty for sure, but there are plenty of ways to have informed opinions.

I thought OP’s question was interesting.

[Anonymous]

Swarthmore. Not surprisingly tons of Swatties went to the UofC for grad school in the 90s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna

Great school, but my friend with kid there now said it’s very preprofessional

“Preprofessional” like it’s an auto mechanic or dental hygienist school 🙄

Are we… pretending we don’t want our kids to have good jobs after they graduate?

No. I think it’s a question of relative focus. Some prefer an environment where there’s a discernible passion for academic exploration in depth and breadth, some prefer an environment where there’s comparatively more attention on specific career networking and entry. I think every school has a degree of both, some are known for more of one or the other.

If you go to Claremont now I guarantee you will be in an environment with a discernible passion for academics.

The students are not there to "phone it in" academically while building their career network and job hunting.

Goof grief.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Swarthmore. Not surprisingly tons of Swatties went to the UofC for grad school in the 90s.

Swarthmore is open to divergent opinions and speakers on campus? Are you sure about that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna

Huh? I like CMC - but OP asked for not pre-professional and not interested in tech, consulting. That is exactly what CMC is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna

This is just so wrong it made me laugh. Claremont McKenna kids are ultra pre professional.

[Anonymous]

No idea. I went to Chicago 22 years ago. But... I have not "tried" other colleges since.