Does Chicago win head to heads vs any Ivys?

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Anonymous wrote:Does fun go to die at any Ivy? If so - where does it die first- chicago or the Ivy?

Definitely Chicago. No ivy can compete with Chicago on that front. I don't think there is any ivy where fun goes to die really.

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Without evidence to th contrary I’d assume Chicago loses to all of thrm, especially once money is taken out of the equation.

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Anonymous wrote:Without evidence to th contrary I’d assume Chicago loses to all of thrm, especially once money is taken out of the equation.

Pretty sure it is winning over Cornell. Must be going neck and neck with Dartmouth and Brown. Cant see it winning against the other ivies though.

The fact that it is now seen as a top 10 school on USNews while Dartmouth, Brown, Connell have not really been top 10 schools in recent memory kind of matters. Entering the USNews top 10 is a big deal. Of course no one of buying that it is a top 3 school as USNews says, but anyways once you enter the top 10, the specific ranking doesn't matter anymore. People are gonna still think of HYPSM as the most prestigious even if another school is ranked #3, #2, #1.

[Anonymous]

If I want to be an electrical engineer (or any engineer for that matter), I'm going to Cornell over Chicago and it isn't close.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does fun go to die at any Ivy? If so - where does it die first- chicago or the Ivy?

You've obviously seen the tee shirt.

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Just goes to show how much "pedigree" and "status" matter to DCUM people.

According to US News, Chicago beats all of them except Princeton, Harvard, and Yale.
According to the number of Nobel laureates produced, it beats all of them except Harvard and Columbia.
According to one Forbes list, it loses to Harvard and Princeton.
According to another Forbes list, it loses to all of them.
According to people who want to hire hoteliers, it loses to Cornell.
According to engineers, it loses to all of them
According to Barack Obama, it loses to Harvard and Columbia.
According to Donald Trump, it loses to Penn.

These threads are so stupid, and the fact that there are like a million every week about which schools have the most "status" as though anyone has the option to choose between all these top schools is just so telling about the DCUM population.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I want to be an electrical engineer (or any engineer for that matter), I'm going to Cornell over Chicago and it isn't close.

And, odds are, you wouldn’t even apply to UChicago, so your preference wouldn’t be reflected in Parchment (even if you had contributed to its database). Lots of these decisions get made at the application stage (or even early action/decision stage). In my HH, Chicago “won” head to head with Harvard and Princeton (DC was legacy at both schools) for EA. Uchicago was DC’s first choice, DC got in, DC accepted. It’s not just colleges making decisions — it’s applicants. And lots of their choices get made before May 1st. So head-to-head competition is more hypothetical than real in most cases.

In the end, why care about other HS students’ rank ordering of various schools? What matters is the preferences of the individual applicant. It may also make sense to compare outcomes (job prospects, grad/prof school admissions) if you can get relevant enough data, but how on earth does what other HS seniors think about the comparative attractiveness of a variety of colleges they’ve never attended matter?

[Anonymous]

You sound desperate OP. No one outside of the midwest cares about Chicago

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If I want to be an electrical engineer (or any engineer for that matter), I'm going to Cornell over Chicago and it isn't close.

And, odds are, you wouldn’t even apply to UChicago, so your preference wouldn’t be reflected in Parchment (even if you had contributed to its database). Lots of these decisions get made at the application stage (or even early action/decision stage). In my HH, Chicago “won” head to head with Harvard and Princeton (DC was legacy at both schools) for EA. Uchicago was DC’s first choice, DC got in, DC accepted. It’s not just colleges making decisions — it’s applicants. And lots of their choices get made before May 1st. So head-to-head competition is more hypothetical than real in most cases.

In the end, why care about other HS students’ rank ordering of various schools? What matters is the preferences of the individual applicant. It may also make sense to compare outcomes (job prospects, grad/prof school admissions) if you can get relevant enough data, but how on earth does what other HS seniors think about the comparative attractiveness of a variety of colleges they’ve never attended matter?

We have a kid, maybe two, who is obsessed with Chicago on this forum. I can see it in the writing style and choice of vocabulary. As well as in the concept that anyone cares. But someday he (I'm confident it's a he) will grow up and realize no one cares he went to Chicago and only cares if he's a good, likeable, hard working and responsible person. If he's funny and has a sense of humor, that's great, too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You sound desperate OP. No one outside of the midwest cares about Chicago

One of the top ranks universities in the world with 92 Nobel Laureates. Yep, no one outside the Midwest cares.

[Anonymous]

Depends on what you want to do. Chicago kids have a rep for being brainy, which doesn't hurt in many fields.

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Anonymous wrote:You sound desperate OP. No one outside of the midwest cares about Chicago

One of the top ranks universities in the world with 92 Nobel Laureates. Yep, no one outside the Midwest cares.

Ok, no one outside the Midwest and Stockholm, LOL!

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Anonymous wrote:You sound desperate OP. No one outside of the midwest cares about Chicago

I'm from the Midwest. Most college-educated folks there have never heard of UChicago. And if they have heard of it, maybe 0.10% of them understand how hard it is to get in. Aside from Harvard and Stanford, getting into Michigan's engineering college or Notre Dame would be seen as a bigger accomplishment to almost everyone.

[Anonymous]

GPA crushing undergrad that makes grad school admissions far more challenging than they should & campus social life sucks. The hype for UChicago is 100% from type-A tiger parents and their annoying swots who are obsessed with US News ranks, which UChicago shamelessly manipulated.

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Anonymous wrote:You sound desperate OP. No one outside of the midwest cares about Chicago

I'm from the Midwest. Most college-educated folks there have never heard of UChicago. And if they have heard of it, maybe 0.10% of them understand how hard it is to get in. Aside from Harvard and Stanford, getting into Michigan's engineering college or Notre Dame would be seen as a bigger accomplishment to almost everyone.

I'm from the midwest and every college-educated person I've met has heard of U Chicago and consider it to be equivalent to Harvard but better because it's closer to home.

My anecdote beats your anecdote.