University of Chicago

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Anonymous wrote:The thing I remember most about UChicago is that they had a dejected football scout at the summer camps prior to senior year. My son literally won the entire camp in a 1:1 lineman elimination challenge and he was the last one standing.

He had a 3.5 and a 1300 and the Chicago coach just said, sorry amigo, I can’t recruit you on those numbers.

We had already received some mailings from U Chicago including a big postcard with our kid’s name on it. We posted it on the fridge for a while and wrote with a sharpie, “SORRY AMIGO !!!!” As a joke.

He went to Williams instead

Didn't know Chicago coach can utter such a racist slur!

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Anonymous wrote:The education is top notch and work ethic instilled translates well to employment.

Employment in everything but engineering, correct?

Apart from molecular engineering, UChicago doesn’t have engineering at all.

It's an econ school, why does it need engineering?

UChicago is great for humanities, social sciences, math, physics. Fully agree that there is no need for engineering.

One third majoring in econ by graduation.

It may be because Math/Physics/Stats/Engineering is so hard...it's the default

Uchicago economics is very very hard. It’s because economics has the best outcomes coming out of college. A physics degree is almost entirely useless if you aren’t spending most of your time in other courses.

I would think Physics at UChicago would set you up nicely for a quant job. I think they even have a large quant trading club and I see Physics/Math/Stats majors. Impressive club!

What’s the purpose of going all the way with a major as hard as physics to get a quant job? Just do math or economics and you’ll have a much easier time explaining why you even did the degree you did.

$$$$ That's why I would think. This firms want SMART. Although I also think Sam Bankman Fried went this route, MIT - Physics - Jane Street... it's really not uncommon

It's not that it's uncommon-just unnecessary. Economics majors are smart, so are physics majors-but a majority of a physics major will be completely useless. If you're worried about looking smart, do mathematics (which is arguably more abstract and rigorous than physics) and actually learn content that'll help you with the job, rather than focusing your weekends on Poisson brackets and Partial Wave Expansion.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing I remember most about UChicago is that they had a dejected football scout at the summer camps prior to senior year. My son literally won the entire camp in a 1:1 lineman elimination challenge and he was the last one standing.

He had a 3.5 and a 1300 and the Chicago coach just said, sorry amigo, I can’t recruit you on those numbers.

We had already received some mailings from U Chicago including a big postcard with our kid’s name on it. We posted it on the fridge for a while and wrote with a sharpie, “SORRY AMIGO !!!!” As a joke.

He went to Williams instead

This makes me respect UChicago more! They don’t want to accept athletes that cannot handle the rigor of the course work. Williams is another story.

By the way, MIT and Caltech coaches face even more constraints than UChicago ones.

Agree. Might actually encourage my kid to apply now.

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Watching this. DC applied ED1. I think there are at least 1-2 other DCUMers in the same boat.

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Anonymous wrote:Watching this. DC applied ED1. I think there are at least 1-2 other DCUMers in the same boat.

Parent of a first-year here. Feel free to ask questions and I'll answer honestly. Spoiler alert, kid is very happy.

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Nerd central

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Anonymous wrote:Nerd central

Yes, and that's fabulous! Some kids are actually "intellectual" and not into the icky frat bro vibe, it's so cliche, along with the frat bro/sorority mom parents that come along for the ride at football games, etc. There's really nothing else to do on a weekend than watch football and drink a ton, really??

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Anonymous wrote:The thing I remember most about UChicago is that they had a dejected football scout at the summer camps prior to senior year. My son literally won the entire camp in a 1:1 lineman elimination challenge and he was the last one standing.

He had a 3.5 and a 1300 and the Chicago coach just said, sorry amigo, I can’t recruit you on those numbers.

We had already received some mailings from U Chicago including a big postcard with our kid’s name on it. We posted it on the fridge for a while and wrote with a sharpie, “SORRY AMIGO !!!!” As a joke.

He went to Williams instead

This is what's wrong with the college process. That kid doesn't belong at Williams. What a joke.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing I remember most about UChicago is that they had a dejected football scout at the summer camps prior to senior year. My son literally won the entire camp in a 1:1 lineman elimination challenge and he was the last one standing.

He had a 3.5 and a 1300 and the Chicago coach just said, sorry amigo, I can’t recruit you on those numbers.

We had already received some mailings from U Chicago including a big postcard with our kid’s name on it. We posted it on the fridge for a while and wrote with a sharpie, “SORRY AMIGO !!!!” As a joke.

He went to Williams instead

This is what's wrong with the college process. That kid doesn't belong at Williams. What a joke.

That kid didn't go to Williams....it's fiction.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing I remember most about UChicago is that they had a dejected football scout at the summer camps prior to senior year. My son literally won the entire camp in a 1:1 lineman elimination challenge and he was the last one standing.

He had a 3.5 and a 1300 and the Chicago coach just said, sorry amigo, I can’t recruit you on those numbers.

We had already received some mailings from U Chicago including a big postcard with our kid’s name on it. We posted it on the fridge for a while and wrote with a sharpie, “SORRY AMIGO !!!!” As a joke.

He went to Williams instead

This is what's wrong with the college process. That kid doesn't belong at Williams. What a joke.

That kid didn't go to Williams....it's fiction.

Everything is fiction to you people.

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Anonymous wrote:Awesome university
Awesome academics
Awesome campus in an awesome cities.

I tell my top 5 % - who are not looking to be engineers to go there if they get in . ( preferred over near competitors like Duke /Upenn/ Columbia / Cornel and surely over laggards like Brown/Dartmouth.

Preferred by whom? UPenn does much better in cross admit. Duke is essentially tied.

+1. Chicago is ED for bottom of top10% to bottom of T20% at our private. Duke is Val to bottom of top10% for unhooked ED, top5% RD unhooked. Ivies are a notch harder than Duke, RD only for true val/sal stars if unhooked.

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Anonymous wrote:The education is top notch and work ethic instilled translates well to employment.

Employment in everything but engineering, correct?

Apart from molecular engineering, UChicago doesn’t have engineering at all.

It's an econ school, why does it need engineering?

UChicago is great for humanities, social sciences, math, physics. Fully agree that there is no need for engineering.

If you do molecular/quantum, it's not ABET, but similar to Caltech, don't want to be constrained to ABET. Still can go to engineering masters or PhD, and even work, just not for rote ABET required roles.

+1 chicago foe molecular E/quantum is amazing. Has an affiliated national lab. Will be ABET in 2 years--it is new

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Anonymous wrote:Awesome university
Awesome academics
Awesome campus in an awesome cities.

I tell my top 5 % - who are not looking to be engineers to go there if they get in . ( preferred over near competitors like Duke /Upenn/ Columbia / Cornel and surely over laggards like Brown/Dartmouth.

Preferred by whom? UPenn does much better in cross admit. Duke is essentially tied.

+1. Chicago is ED for bottom of top10% to bottom of T20% at our private. Duke is Val to bottom of top10% for unhooked ED, top5% RD unhooked. Ivies are a notch harder than Duke, RD only for true val/sal stars if unhooked.

-1. From DC’s school, UChicago got 3 out of top 10 kids last year (including 2 at the very top). UPenn got 2 students: 1 at the bottom of top 10 and 1 who was not in top 20.

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How do people know who’s at the “bottom” of the top 10%?

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Anonymous wrote:How do people know who’s at the “bottom” of the top 10%?

The cum laude kids (top 10 percent) were announced in order of GPA.