Univ of Chicago

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously. People on DCUM are really trying to convince us that a 1-2 hour flight to Chicago is somehow soooo much harder or sooooo much more isolated than, say, an 8 hour drive or a 1-2 hour flight to NYC or Boston + 3 hour drive into the wilderness. Delusional.

O'Hare to UChicago or vice versa is literally 1 hr and 30 to 40 minutes via public transport, so don't forget to add on over 3 hrs RT.

Yes, UChicago is isolating on the south side and in Chicago. It's weird how everyone hypes "Chicago" which means downtown and Cubs games. But UChicago is not downtown, it's actually 30 to 60 minutes south of downtown. It's akin to saying Rockville or Gaitherburg (MD) are "in DC".

And Chicago, the city of, is far more isolating to east and west coast kiddos because no acela and all their friends are in eastern seaboard schools. Are you really not grasping that friend groups at Penn, Villanova, Columbia, NYU, Brown, Harvard, Boston College, Hopkins, Georgetown have a far easier time of seeing each other than the kid from Hyde Park, Chicago visiting their friend at the same colleges? And do you really not grasp these rich kids on the east coast pop on flights to Miami and Europe at the drop of a dime?

AYFKM that Hyde Park is the equivalent to Gaithersburg?

Not even for a moment. An Uber will take you from U of C’s campus to downtown in 20/25 minutes. Maximum. It’s not even the ‘far’ south side of the city — Chicago goes down to the 130s or so and HP is in the 50s/60s. Plus, many students don’t leave campus all that often anyway — as is the case at many universities. To equate a college that gets dragged for being in an ‘inner city den of crime’ to the DC ‘burbs in any way shape or form is grasping at straws.

There literally are so many logical issues with this PP that I want to pull out a map, Katie Porter style, to go through them all.

But, at the end, if your priority is making sure Larla can jump on the same jet and go off to Miami (which, BTW, is LITERALLY CLOSER TO CHICAGO THAN BOSTON) for the weekend with her rich buddies, then… ok. You do you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously. People on DCUM are really trying to convince us that a 1-2 hour flight to Chicago is somehow soooo much harder or sooooo much more isolated than, say, an 8 hour drive or a 1-2 hour flight to NYC or Boston + 3 hour drive into the wilderness. Delusional.

O'Hare to UChicago or vice versa is literally 1 hr and 30 to 40 minutes via public transport, so don't forget to add on over 3 hrs RT.

Yes, UChicago is isolating on the south side and in Chicago. It's weird how everyone hypes "Chicago" which means downtown and Cubs games. But UChicago is not downtown, it's actually 30 to 60 minutes south of downtown. It's akin to saying Rockville or Gaitherburg (MD) are "in DC".

And Chicago, the city of, is far more isolating to east and west coast kiddos because no acela and all their friends are in eastern seaboard schools. Are you really not grasping that friend groups at Penn, Villanova, Columbia, NYU, Brown, Harvard, Boston College, Hopkins, Georgetown have a far easier time of seeing each other than the kid from Hyde Park, Chicago visiting their friend at the same colleges? And do you really not grasp these rich kids on the east coast pop on flights to Miami and Europe at the drop of a dime?

You sound genuinely delusional. Getting from Chicago to virtually anywhere on the eastern seaboard is a piece of cake. I guess kids who go to Stanford or Berkeley or Pomona or Caltech are just country bumpkin idiots because they can't easily see their friends at *Villanova* (of all places! lmfao) over a weekend?

Anyone trying to argue that Villanova, NYU, Boston College or Georgetown are better schools than UChicago is challenged. And I don't even like UChicago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously. People on DCUM are really trying to convince us that a 1-2 hour flight to Chicago is somehow soooo much harder or sooooo much more isolated than, say, an 8 hour drive or a 1-2 hour flight to NYC or Boston + 3 hour drive into the wilderness. Delusional.

O'Hare to UChicago or vice versa is literally 1 hr and 30 to 40 minutes via public transport, so don't forget to add on over 3 hrs RT.

Yes, UChicago is isolating on the south side and in Chicago. It's weird how everyone hypes "Chicago" which means downtown and Cubs games. But UChicago is not downtown, it's actually 30 to 60 minutes south of downtown. It's akin to saying Rockville or Gaitherburg (MD) are "in DC".

And Chicago, the city of, is far more isolating to east and west coast kiddos because no acela and all their friends are in eastern seaboard schools. Are you really not grasping that friend groups at Penn, Villanova, Columbia, NYU, Brown, Harvard, Boston College, Hopkins, Georgetown have a far easier time of seeing each other than the kid from Hyde Park, Chicago visiting their friend at the same colleges? And do you really not grasp these rich kids on the east coast pop on flights to Miami and Europe at the drop of a dime?

AYFKM that Hyde Park is the equivalent to Gaithersburg?

Not even for a moment. An Uber will take you from U of C’s campus to downtown in 20/25 minutes. Maximum. It’s not even the ‘far’ south side of the city — Chicago goes down to the 130s or so and HP is in the 50s/60s. Plus, many students don’t leave campus all that often anyway — as is the case at many universities. To equate a college that gets dragged for being in an ‘inner city den of crime’ to the DC ‘burbs in any way shape or form is grasping at straws.

There literally are so many logical issues with this PP that I want to pull out a map, Katie Porter style, to go through them all.

But, at the end, if your priority is making sure Larla can jump on the same jet and go off to Miami (which, BTW, is LITERALLY CLOSER TO CHICAGO THAN BOSTON) for the weekend with her rich buddies, then… ok. You do you.

I agree with you 100%. I recognize this PP; they've posted on threads about both UChicago and Northwestern before, using the same weird, illogical arguments. My guess is their kid got rejected from one or both schools, and they've been on a vendetta against the greater Chicagoland region since then. Apparently it's of utmost importance that their sweet Larla is able to really easily visit their friends at Villanova instead of, you know, enjoying college and making friends and immersing themselves in campus life like any other well-adjusted college student. What a strange thing to tout as an important consideration.

[Anonymous]

Flying from Chicago to Europe compared to East Coast to Europe is literally a 50 minute difference... and Chicago to Miami is closer than Boston to Miami (and same as NY to Miami)... lol. You Virginians are a funny bunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously. People on DCUM are really trying to convince us that a 1-2 hour flight to Chicago is somehow soooo much harder or sooooo much more isolated than, say, an 8 hour drive or a 1-2 hour flight to NYC or Boston + 3 hour drive into the wilderness. Delusional.

O'Hare to UChicago or vice versa is literally 1 hr and 30 to 40 minutes via public transport, so don't forget to add on over 3 hrs RT.

Yes, UChicago is isolating on the south side and in Chicago. It's weird how everyone hypes "Chicago" which means downtown and Cubs games. But UChicago is not downtown, it's actually 30 to 60 minutes south of downtown. It's akin to saying Rockville or Gaitherburg (MD) are "in DC".

And Chicago, the city of, is far more isolating to east and west coast kiddos because no acela and all their friends are in eastern seaboard schools. Are you really not grasping that friend groups at Penn, Villanova, Columbia, NYU, Brown, Harvard, Boston College, Hopkins, Georgetown have a far easier time of seeing each other than the kid from Hyde Park, Chicago visiting their friend at the same colleges? And do you really not grasp these rich kids on the east coast pop on flights to Miami and Europe at the drop of a dime?

AYFKM that Hyde Park is the equivalent to Gaithersburg?

Not even for a moment. An Uber will take you from U of C’s campus to downtown in 20/25 minutes. Maximum. It’s not even the ‘far’ south side of the city — Chicago goes down to the 130s or so and HP is in the 50s/60s. Plus, many students don’t leave campus all that often anyway — as is the case at many universities. To equate a college that gets dragged for being in an ‘inner city den of crime’ to the DC ‘burbs in any way shape or form is grasping at straws.

Ahhhhh so when you UofC boosters hype up all the downtown-River North-Lincoln Park-Wrigleyville excitement in the City of Chicago, and the city's amazing public transport, and wed it all to UChicago's attributes... what you really mean is do not use public transport (it not only takes a very long time, as a rich college kid you risk getting mugged and shot) and that downtown action is a $20 to 40 Uber each way? Got it.

[Anonymous]

I'm sure someone is eager to correct those prices. I'm looking at Google maps right now. Cheapest from campus to downtown River North is $20/23 to $38/61 EACH WAY.

But again, why would you want to use Uber or Lyft? Just use the bus and subway for free as a student, right? Oh wait, it's 8pm, and you kid would most certainly be mugged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously. People on DCUM are really trying to convince us that a 1-2 hour flight to Chicago is somehow soooo much harder or sooooo much more isolated than, say, an 8 hour drive or a 1-2 hour flight to NYC or Boston + 3 hour drive into the wilderness. Delusional.

O'Hare to UChicago or vice versa is literally 1 hr and 30 to 40 minutes via public transport, so don't forget to add on over 3 hrs RT.

Yes, UChicago is isolating on the south side and in Chicago. It's weird how everyone hypes "Chicago" which means downtown and Cubs games. But UChicago is not downtown, it's actually 30 to 60 minutes south of downtown. It's akin to saying Rockville or Gaitherburg (MD) are "in DC".

And Chicago, the city of, is far more isolating to east and west coast kiddos because no acela and all their friends are in eastern seaboard schools. Are you really not grasping that friend groups at Penn, Villanova, Columbia, NYU, Brown, Harvard, Boston College, Hopkins, Georgetown have a far easier time of seeing each other than the kid from Hyde Park, Chicago visiting their friend at the same colleges? And do you really not grasp these rich kids on the east coast pop on flights to Miami and Europe at the drop of a dime?

AYFKM that Hyde Park is the equivalent to Gaithersburg?

Not even for a moment. An Uber will take you from U of C’s campus to downtown in 20/25 minutes. Maximum. It’s not even the ‘far’ south side of the city — Chicago goes down to the 130s or so and HP is in the 50s/60s. Plus, many students don’t leave campus all that often anyway — as is the case at many universities. To equate a college that gets dragged for being in an ‘inner city den of crime’ to the DC ‘burbs in any way shape or form is grasping at straws.

Ahhhhh so when you UofC boosters hype up all the downtown-River North-Lincoln Park-Wrigleyville excitement in the City of Chicago, and the city's amazing public transport, and wed it all to UChicago's attributes... what you really mean is do not use public transport (it not only takes a very long time, as a rich college kid you risk getting mugged and shot) and that downtown action is a $20 to 40 Uber each way? Got it.

Hyde Park is like a 30 minute train ride from the Loop. What's your point? Is Columbia not in NYC anymore because it's not in Times Square?

[Anonymous]

Far closer to an hour with a walking / bus / train combo -- not "like 30 minutes." And in what way is deep south side Chicago comparable to the UWS? Columbia to time square is 1/2 the time, by the way. In no way is UWS / Harlem as isolating and boring as deep south side Chicago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously. People on DCUM are really trying to convince us that a 1-2 hour flight to Chicago is somehow soooo much harder or sooooo much more isolated than, say, an 8 hour drive or a 1-2 hour flight to NYC or Boston + 3 hour drive into the wilderness. Delusional.

O'Hare to UChicago or vice versa is literally 1 hr and 30 to 40 minutes via public transport, so don't forget to add on over 3 hrs RT.

Yes, UChicago is isolating on the south side and in Chicago. It's weird how everyone hypes "Chicago" which means downtown and Cubs games. But UChicago is not downtown, it's actually 30 to 60 minutes south of downtown. It's akin to saying Rockville or Gaitherburg (MD) are "in DC".

And Chicago, the city of, is far more isolating to east and west coast kiddos because no acela and all their friends are in eastern seaboard schools. Are you really not grasping that friend groups at Penn, Villanova, Columbia, NYU, Brown, Harvard, Boston College, Hopkins, Georgetown have a far easier time of seeing each other than the kid from Hyde Park, Chicago visiting their friend at the same colleges? And do you really not grasp these rich kids on the east coast pop on flights to Miami and Europe at the drop of a dime?

AYFKM that Hyde Park is the equivalent to Gaithersburg?

Not even for a moment. An Uber will take you from U of C’s campus to downtown in 20/25 minutes. Maximum. It’s not even the ‘far’ south side of the city — Chicago goes down to the 130s or so and HP is in the 50s/60s. Plus, many students don’t leave campus all that often anyway — as is the case at many universities. To equate a college that gets dragged for being in an ‘inner city den of crime’ to the DC ‘burbs in any way shape or form is grasping at straws.

Ahhhhh so when you UofC boosters hype up all the downtown-River North-Lincoln Park-Wrigleyville excitement in the City of Chicago, and the city's amazing public transport, and wed it all to UChicago's attributes... what you really mean is do not use public transport (it not only takes a very long time, as a rich college kid you risk getting mugged and shot) and that downtown action is a $20 to 40 Uber each way? Got it.

Hyde Park is like a 30 minute train ride from the Loop. What's your point? Is Columbia not in NYC anymore because it's not in Times Square?

It’s not, even, a 30 minute train ride. Metra will get you there in less.

But no one goes downtown to hang out in the Loop. As is the case with 95% of college students everywhere, students stick close to campus. There is plenty to do on campus and near campus in HP, and students do those things, just like they do anywhere. Saying that U of C is ‘uniquely isolated’ on the ‘Deep South side’ of Chicago (eye roll, racism, etc etc etc) is just a straw man argument made by someone who is determined to never let a thread about U of C stay on topic.

And yes, I know I’m contributing to the problem by posting but dammit if PP doesn’t just annoy me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Far closer to an hour with a walking / bus / train combo -- not "like 30 minutes." And in what way is deep south side Chicago comparable to the UWS? Columbia to time square is 1/2 the time, by the way. In no way is UWS / Harlem as isolating and boring as deep south side Chicago.

Hyde Park is not "deep south side." Not even close. Multiple express buses run from Hyde Park to the loop on Lake Shore Drive (~7 miles) during rush hours in 20-30 minutes. If you find a diverse, historic, lakefront neighborhood that is also home to the Museum of Science and Industry "isolating and boring," well, that says more about you than it does about about Hyde Park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure someone is eager to correct those prices. I'm looking at Google maps right now. Cheapest from campus to downtown River North is $20/23 to $38/61 EACH WAY.

But again, why would you want to use Uber or Lyft? Just use the bus and subway for free as a student, right? Oh wait, it's 8pm, and you kid would most certainly be mugged.

Chicago had significantly fewer robberies last year than it did when I was at the U of C (roughly 8,000 vs roughly 18,000) and I only knew a handful of people who were mugged (3 total over four years). We were downtown often and took public transportation exclusively as it was very much pre-Uber.

[Anonymous]

You've never watched The Wire? The only crime that's accurate in any inner city is the murder rate. And Chicago's murder rate right now is the worst in 25 to 30 years.

[Anonymous]

A fine school with some embarrassingly insecure alumni:

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/uchicago-steals-2nd-nobel-prize-winner-from-harvard-since-last-year/3535983

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/uchicago-steals-2nd-nobel-prize-winner-from-harvard-since-last-year/3535983

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/uchicago-is-tops-at-top-prep-schools/2795312/131

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/uchicago-more-popular-than-harvard-stanford-ivys-at-beverly-hills-high-school/2798813/207

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/interesting-admission-statistics-from-one-top-private-school/3528303

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/most-popular-colleges-at-top-20-private-schools/3531719

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/lookie-who-is-in-the-top-10-in-the-world/3529877

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:great school but expect uchicago bashers and the hypsm prestige defense squad to show up on this thread really soon...

Present and ready for duty!
HYPSM is the best and top tier of the elite of elite of academic institutions.
UChicago is a great place, if the fit is right.
Positives: academic, intellectual, has prestige but NOT HYPSM prestige
Negatives: frigid cold, crime-ridden, quarter system so if you get behind you are toast

Prestige-wise less than schools like Columbia, Penn, or Duke but above Northwestern and JHU.

Roughly tied with the lower ivies in terms of student caliber and popularity if you want an honest take. DS went to STA and most from his class who ended up at uchi were rejected from ivies or stanford.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously. People on DCUM are really trying to convince us that a 1-2 hour flight to Chicago is somehow soooo much harder or sooooo much more isolated than, say, an 8 hour drive or a 1-2 hour flight to NYC or Boston + 3 hour drive into the wilderness. Delusional.

O'Hare to UChicago or vice versa is literally 1 hr and 30 to 40 minutes via public transport, so don't forget to add on over 3 hrs RT.

Yes, UChicago is isolating on the south side and in Chicago. It's weird how everyone hypes "Chicago" which means downtown and Cubs games. But UChicago is not downtown, it's actually 30 to 60 minutes south of downtown. It's akin to saying Rockville or Gaitherburg (MD) are "in DC".

And Chicago, the city of, is far more isolating to east and west coast kiddos because no acela and all their friends are in eastern seaboard schools. Are you really not grasping that friend groups at Penn, Villanova, Columbia, NYU, Brown, Harvard, Boston College, Hopkins, Georgetown have a far easier time of seeing each other than the kid from Hyde Park, Chicago visiting their friend at the same colleges? And do you really not grasp these rich kids on the east coast pop on flights to Miami and Europe at the drop of a dime?

AYFKM that Hyde Park is the equivalent to Gaithersburg?

Not even for a moment. An Uber will take you from U of C’s campus to downtown in 20/25 minutes. Maximum. It’s not even the ‘far’ south side of the city — Chicago goes down to the 130s or so and HP is in the 50s/60s. Plus, many students don’t leave campus all that often anyway — as is the case at many universities. To equate a college that gets dragged for being in an ‘inner city den of crime’ to the DC ‘burbs in any way shape or form is grasping at straws.

Ahhhhh so when you UofC boosters hype up all the downtown-River North-Lincoln Park-Wrigleyville excitement in the City of Chicago, and the city's amazing public transport, and wed it all to UChicago's attributes... what you really mean is do not use public transport (it not only takes a very long time, as a rich college kid you risk getting mugged and shot) and that downtown action is a $20 to 40 Uber each way? Got it.

Again, UofC students all get a pass that lets them use buses and the El for free. Mine used hers all the time (and routinely visited uncles in Andersonville). There’s also a weekend shuttle bus from campus to the South loop/lots of El lines. DC took Uber occasionally, usually one way and with a group of friends who split the cost. Dorms also arranged concert tickets, donut crawls, bike tours to get kids into/familiar with the city early on.