University of Chicago

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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.

That’s awful and so unnecessary. Shame on the school. More humane to announce them in alphabetical order. Just my opinion.

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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.

That’s awful and so unnecessary. Shame on the school. More humane to announce them in alphabetical order. Just my opinion.

PP again. Fully agree. The following year was done in alphabetical order.

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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.

That’s awful and so unnecessary. Shame on the school. More humane to announce them in alphabetical order. Just my opinion.

Right. Everyone should get a trophy.

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Anonymous wrote:School appears in various rankings on this forum. There's ED0(??). Looking for students' experiences from the last 3 years or so. The good, the bad and ugly. Why NOT Chicago?

Why NOT Chicago:
--You are looking for the tippy top kids, who are headed to HYPSM (with a bunch of billionaire/boldface name/athletic recruits thrown in)
--Your kid wants an easy path through college. The core is no joke. The classes are a TON of work. There's grade deflation. Especially if my kid wanted med school I wouldn't chance it.
--Your kid hates the cold. Duh.

As for the debt/financial issues...it doesn't NOT concern me, but it's not clear how it will or won't affect my kid. He's not looking to major in an obscure language.

The peer group is fantastic, the education is amazing, and it's a beautiful campus. But it is COLD in the winter!

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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.

No, the bizecon track is not very hard at all.

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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!

You need to take a lot of outside courses for quant. Quant is not as simple as people here make it. You need to 1) actually know how to code for heavens sake 2) be able to compete with mathematical economics majors who have a lot more applicable knowledge base (and frankly easier courses with more time on their hands), and 3) you actually have to get passed the insane interview process. Quant is not some easy job you stumble into; students prep for months and there’s very few jobs.

Physics uses a particular branch of mathematics. Some of which is useful, but it makes much more sense to take a stats major.

There is no such thing as a mathematical economics major at UChicago. Quant firms are pretty major-agnostic. Learning about t-tests and what not actually isn't as huge of an advantage as you might think, as that stuff is rarely used by firms.

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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.

"I like physics" is a perfectly fine reason. Pretty easy to explain.

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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

How is he finding the work? What are the Williams football players majoring in?

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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.

Dedekind cuts and field extensions aren't any more useful. Actually, the best major for quant dev (which is the most common quant job) is still CS.

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If you are USAMO, quant job is pretty much a shoe-in.

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The close proximity to the brutalist Obama Center will be the final nail in the coffin of U Chicago. Wait for it.

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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.

That’s awful and so unnecessary. Shame on the school. More humane to announce them in alphabetical order. Just my opinion.

Right. Everyone should get a trophy.

If everyone got a trophy, then schools wouldn’t be doing cum laude. That being said, many kids at my kid’s private who weren’t in cum laude (or hooked) got into great schools. It’s an honor, like NMSF but it won’t make or break an application.

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Anonymous wrote:The close proximity to the brutalist Obama Center will be the final nail in the coffin of U Chicago. Wait for it.

How so?

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Anonymous wrote:The close proximity to the brutalist Obama Center will be the final nail in the coffin of U Chicago. Wait for it.

How so?

I think the UChicago hater mom is running out of alarm bells to ring.

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DC loved Chicago from the get go, is STEM focused, doesn’t mind the cold, and is thriving. There is a ton of work and the core is no joke. It would have been an “easier path” if they’d gone to a less demanding school, but they actually enjoy the classes/work and have found their people. The day to day experience is a great fit.

I wish it was closer (we are in the DMV). I don’t love the quarter system from a calendar/schedule perspective. It’s expensive and we got zero aid.