Niece just finished her freshman year at University of Chicago. She hates it.

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Anonymous wrote:How was the lunch?

not good not good, they mess up the order

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Anonymous wrote:If you are not capable of having fun in Chicago, something seriously is wrong with you.
I have been to so many cities in the world, and Chicago is top 5 in my list .

UChicago is technically in Chicago but it’s really not. Does anyone consider UMD to be basically in DC? Of course not. UMD is 10 to 12 miles away from the White House and the Hill. Same distance UChicago’s south side campus is from Chicago’s downtown and the fun and safe Chicago neighborhoods affluent young people want to be in.

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Anonymous wrote:So Miss Sunshine has applied to transfer, right?

She wants to decompress and explore what if any options she has. As she explained, Chicago is on the quarter system, which makes it difficult to transfer courses to the far more common semester universities? And transfer deadlines tend to be in January, so she would have had to begin that process right after her first quarter. She tried to give it a fair chance for two more quarters and she remains unhappy. It sounds like she has made some good friends but she seems to dislike everything else about the school. She thought it would be different.

She could go to community college until she gets the transfer in place. Why pay so much money for a place you hate? I bet she loves community college more.

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Anonymous wrote:So Miss Sunshine has applied to transfer, right?

She wants to decompress and explore what if any options she has. As she explained, Chicago is on the quarter system, which makes it difficult to transfer courses to the far more common semester universities? And transfer deadlines tend to be in January, so she would have had to begin that process right after her first quarter. She tried to give it a fair chance for two more quarters and she remains unhappy. It sounds like she has made some good friends but she seems to dislike everything else about the school. She thought it would be different.

She could go to community college until she gets the transfer in place. Why pay so much money for a place you hate? I bet she loves community college more.

Very few selective colleges take junior college credits. And certainly not after you’ve matriculated. You’re out of your depth here. Stick to threads about degree mills.

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I think u Chicago undergraduate is better than Columbia.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are not capable of having fun in Chicago, something seriously is wrong with you.
I have been to so many cities in the world, and Chicago is top 5 in my list .

UChicago is technically in Chicago but it’s really not. Does anyone consider UMD to be basically in DC? Of course not. UMD is 10 to 12 miles away from the White House and the Hill. Same distance UChicago’s south side campus is from Chicago’s downtown and the fun and safe Chicago neighborhoods affluent young people want to be in.

Wut?

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Anonymous wrote:She earned very high marks and she does not wish to return. And not just for known reasons like violent crime, weather, and its isolated location in the Midwest, and more specifically, on the deep south side of Chicago. We had a long lunch and here are her words in quotes: Her classmates are "repulsively obnoxious" and "insufferable," her professors were "checked out" or "barely spoke English," the university seems "unprofessional" and in "disarray," and most of the staff she encountered were "useless" and "incompetent." "It looks like a serious university but it does not operate like a serious university."

It was not her first choice but she was so excited when we met for lunch late last summer. It is sad to see her so unhappy after a year.

Schools better than UChicago:
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
UPenn
Caltech
Duke
Columbia
Dartmouth
Brown
Georgetown
Amherst
Pomona

+1 but replace Georgetown with Williams

Schools better than UChicago:
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
UPenn
Caltech
Duke
Columbia
Dartmouth
Brown
Vanderbilt
Georgetown
Amherst
Williams
Pomona

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are not capable of having fun in Chicago, something seriously is wrong with you.
I have been to so many cities in the world, and Chicago is top 5 in my list .

UChicago is technically in Chicago but it’s really not. Does anyone consider UMD to be basically in DC? Of course not. UMD is 10 to 12 miles away from the White House and the Hill. Same distance UChicago’s south side campus is from Chicago’s downtown and the fun and safe Chicago neighborhoods affluent young people want to be in.

Wut?

If that is confusing I gather you live online and you have never been to Woodlawn, Chicago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think u Chicago undergraduate is better than Columbia.

No. Columbia is an elite Ivy League school in the greatest city on earth!

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Anonymous wrote:I think u Chicago undergraduate is better than Columbia.

No. Columbia is an elite Ivy League school in the greatest city on earth!

What an intense little crusade you're pursuing here! Go find your fictional niece and take her out for a nice imaginary dinner.

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In case not posted earlier in this long thread. When I visited U of Chicago book store years ago, they had banners on sale there with the school’s unofficial slogan: “The University of Chicago, Where Fun Goes to Die.”

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Why did you pick u Chicago if you believed Fun goes to die?
May be you should have consider Tulane?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think u Chicago undergraduate is better than Columbia.

No. Columbia is an elite Ivy League school in the greatest city on earth!

What an intense little crusade you're pursuing here! Go find your fictional niece and take her out for a nice imaginary dinner.

I am not the op.
Absolute truths:
Chicago is the 2nd city.
NYC is the 1st city (and the best).
UChicago is great but pumped up to a higher status by sanctimonious Ivy League wannabes.

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Anonymous wrote:In case not posted earlier in this long thread. When I visited U of Chicago book store years ago, they had banners on sale there with the school’s unofficial slogan: “The University of Chicago, Where Fun Goes to Die.”

It's also where hell freezes over.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are not capable of having fun in Chicago, something seriously is wrong with you.
I have been to so many cities in the world, and Chicago is top 5 in my list .

UChicago is technically in Chicago but it’s really not. Does anyone consider UMD to be basically in DC? Of course not. UMD is 10 to 12 miles away from the White House and the Hill. Same distance UChicago’s south side campus is from Chicago’s downtown and the fun and safe Chicago neighborhoods affluent young people want to be in.

Wut?

If that is confusing I gather you live online and you have never been to Woodlawn, Chicago.

TF? DP, but U of C is 100% in Chicago and I don’t know anyone who would say otherwise. In fact, the city (proper, not even including the suburbs) extends for miles south beyond Hyde Park.

Chicago city extends about 10 miles south and 10 miles west of U of C and 20 miles north. Pretty damn central IMO.