The Loyola Schools

[Anonymous]

My daughter is coming from a Catholic high school and is looking at two in particular, Loyola Chicago and Loyola New Orleans. Does anyone have any information about these two?

[Anonymous]

Common safety schools for Catholic school kids.

[Anonymous]

Only Loyola Chicago, including med school. Specific info you want? Great school, picked it over Notre Dame due to wanting to be in Chocago vs. South Bend (duh!). Very Midwest focused but great reputation in the Midwest. Campus is beautiful but quite urban feeling.

[Anonymous]

Thanks PP. We toured and DD LOVED it! Part of it was probably that we were coming off a tour of DePaul (which she hated - very little of a defined campus)

A few questions -
Where do most of the kids come from? IL? The Midwest? Is there a national draw?
What is the typical student like?
Any other info on reputation?

[Anonymous]

Loyola New Orleans is really artsy. It's a great school but if your daughter is at all conventional she might not fit in as well.

[Anonymous]

Loyola Chicago is not generally considered academically rigid around Illinois. Basically viewed as a safety school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loyola Chicago is not generally considered academically rigid around Illinois. Basically viewed as a safety school.

Interesting.

My daughter is not a particularly strong student (3.6 GPA, 1820 SAT) but wants to be in a city. Unfortunately it seems like a lot of the urban schools with lesser admission standards are very much commuter schools, which is not the vibe we got from Loyola.

[Anonymous]

3.6 is not a strong student?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Loyola Chicago is not generally considered academically rigid around Illinois. Basically viewed as a safety school.

Interesting.

My daughter is not a particularly strong student (3.6 GPA, 1820 SAT) but wants to be in a city. Unfortunately it seems like a lot of the urban schools with lesser admission standards are very much commuter schools, which is not the vibe we got from Loyola.

DePaul is in a a great urban part of Chicago

[Anonymous]

She didn't like DePaul.

[Anonymous]

It's not a bad school, but certainly doesn't hold a candle to UChicago and Northwestern as far as reputation, job prospects, admissions standards, etc. go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loyola New Orleans is really artsy. It's a great school but if your daughter is at all conventional she might not fit in as well.

Yes -- great local reputation for the arts, music in particular. Lovely location in Uptown New Orleans. Right next to Tulane so in a college-atmosphere neighborhood.