Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?

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Anonymous wrote:The kids attending UChicago now are a completely different cohort from UChicago kids of 15-20 years ago. Chicago's acceptance rate this year is 7.2% behind HYPSM which range from 4.5-6.5% but harder to get into than the other Ivys and competitors like Duke.

Heard UCLA acceptance rate this year is around 5%, lower than Chicago's. Acceptance rate is not all there is. That's more of a PR function.

UCLA's acceptance rate is not 5% this year. It's 14%.

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Anonymous wrote:As tough to get into these days yes but not nearly as enjoyable once you get there. A total joyless grind.

Yep I am hearing this as well.

It's true according to a friend who is an alum. She was miserable and looked like death every time I saw her. The experience seemed unhealthy. Ambition is admirable as long as you don't sacrifice too much. A balanced life is a good life.

Are you the poster who used a quote from 1975?

???????

Are you drunk?

That would be nice but no. People quoting alums are usually reaching way back. There was an earlier post in this tread pr another that someone cut and pasted an ancient review.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The kids attending UChicago now are a completely different cohort from UChicago kids of 15-20 years ago. Chicago's acceptance rate this year is 7.2% behind HYPSM which range from 4.5-6.5% but harder to get into than the other Ivys and competitors like Duke.

Heard UCLA acceptance rate this year is around 5%, lower than Chicago's. Acceptance rate is not all there is. That's more of a PR function.

UCLA's acceptance rate is not 5% this year. It's 14%.

I stand corrected. But you get the point that acceptance rate doesn't mean anything. Walmart is more selective than Harvard and Chicago:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/03/28/wal-mart-has-a-lower-acceptance-rate-than-harvard/?utm_term=.fc4931fb391e

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dour comments can be applied to any of the schools including HYPS. While at H, the tour guides had nothing but bad things to say about their own school, Princeton kids were stressed and rude, Y was great but their math program was terrible, S was corporate. And there were also great things about each school.

Not sure what your point is. HYPS sucks too, so Chicago is in good company? Yet, Chicago can't hang with them to begin with.

Point is that just because people have negative things to say, doesn't mean there isn't great too if people would stop letting assumptive vision affect their mindset. Why does it seem impossble for HYPS boosters to have a balanced perspective? UChicago has been hanging with H before YPS were a thing. The ironic thing is that most people doing the critiquing probaby won't get an option for their kid to attend their legacy school or UChicago or any of the other elites.

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Anonymous wrote:Dour comments can be applied to any of the schools including HYPS. While at H, the tour guides had nothing but bad things to say about their own school, Princeton kids were stressed and rude, Y was great but their math program was terrible, S was corporate. And there were also great things about each school.

Not sure what your point is. HYPS sucks too, so Chicago is in good company? Yet, Chicago can't hang with them to begin with.

Point is that just because people have negative things to say, doesn't mean there isn't great too if people would stop letting assumptive vision affect their mindset. Why does it seem impossble for HYPS boosters to have a balanced perspective? UChicago has been hanging with H before YPS were a thing. The ironic thing is that most people doing the critiquing probaby won't get an option for their kid to attend their legacy school or UChicago or any of the other elites.

A lot of people seem to be choosing UVA over Chicago.

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Anonymous wrote:Dour comments can be applied to any of the schools including HYPS. While at H, the tour guides had nothing but bad things to say about their own school, Princeton kids were stressed and rude, Y was great but their math program was terrible, S was corporate. And there were also great things about each school.

Not sure what your point is. HYPS sucks too, so Chicago is in good company? Yet, Chicago can't hang with them to begin with.

Point is that just because people have negative things to say, doesn't mean there isn't great too if people would stop letting assumptive vision affect their mindset. Why does it seem impossble for HYPS boosters to have a balanced perspective? UChicago has been hanging with H before YPS were a thing. The ironic thing is that most people doing the critiquing probaby won't get an option for their kid to attend their legacy school or UChicago or any of the other elites.

A lot of people seem to be choosing UVA over Chicago.

My D never applied to Chicago. She's a slac type who had a choice of several top slacs.

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Anonymous wrote:Dour comments can be applied to any of the schools including HYPS. While at H, the tour guides had nothing but bad things to say about their own school, Princeton kids were stressed and rude, Y was great but their math program was terrible, S was corporate. And there were also great things about each school.

Not sure what your point is. HYPS sucks too, so Chicago is in good company? Yet, Chicago can't hang with them to begin with.

Point is that just because people have negative things to say, doesn't mean there isn't great too if people would stop letting assumptive vision affect their mindset. Why does it seem impossble for HYPS boosters to have a balanced perspective? UChicago has been hanging with H before YPS were a thing. The ironic thing is that most people doing the critiquing probaby won't get an option for their kid to attend their legacy school or UChicago or any of the other elites.

A lot of people seem to be choosing UVA over Chicago.

Good for them!

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They're very different schools in very different locations. Each to his own.

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Anonymous wrote:Dour comments can be applied to any of the schools including HYPS. While at H, the tour guides had nothing but bad things to say about their own school, Princeton kids were stressed and rude, Y was great but their math program was terrible, S was corporate. And there were also great things about each school.

Not sure what your point is. HYPS sucks too, so Chicago is in good company? Yet, Chicago can't hang with them to begin with.

Point is that just because people have negative things to say, doesn't mean there isn't great too if people would stop letting assumptive vision affect their mindset. Why does it seem impossble for HYPS boosters to have a balanced perspective? UChicago has been hanging with H before YPS were a thing. The ironic thing is that most people doing the critiquing probaby won't get an option for their kid to attend their legacy school or UChicago or any of the other elites.

A lot of people seem to be choosing UVA over Chicago.

My D never applied to Chicago. She's a slac type who had a choice of several top slacs.

So you are sharing a single data point about a school you never seriously looked at?

[Anonymous]

Chicago is a good school. Go there because it's a good school and it has the program you are looking for. But don't go there because you imagibe it's already HYPS or because Gates' kid goes there. That's for people who need a constant pat on the back for going to HYPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago is a good school. Go there because it's a good school and it has the program you are looking for. But don't go there because you imagibe it's already HYPS or because Gates' kid goes there. That's for people who need a constant pat on the back for going to HYPS.

+1 It's a special place and it's prestige is a real asset to its' current students. You will be miserable though if you go for the ranking alone. Not the kind of peer group that views that kindly.

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Anonymous wrote:Dour comments can be applied to any of the schools including HYPS. While at H, the tour guides had nothing but bad things to say about their own school, Princeton kids were stressed and rude, Y was great but their math program was terrible, S was corporate. And there were also great things about each school.

Not sure what your point is. HYPS sucks too, so Chicago is in good company? Yet, Chicago can't hang with them to begin with.

Point is that just because people have negative things to say, doesn't mean there isn't great too if people would stop letting assumptive vision affect their mindset. Why does it seem impossble for HYPS boosters to have a balanced perspective? UChicago has been hanging with H before YPS were a thing. The ironic thing is that most people doing the critiquing probaby won't get an option for their kid to attend their legacy school or UChicago or any of the other elites.

A lot of people seem to be choosing UVA over Chicago.

My D never applied to Chicago. She's a slac type who had a choice of several top slacs.

So you are sharing a single data point about a school you never seriously looked at?

I never said not to go to UChicago. I am the poster who said to go to Chicago if it suits your studies but not for HYPS or because Bill Gates' son goes there. My D goes to a type of slac where most kids wouldn't be able to pick out 1% kids from low income kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I have heard many students move off campus at U Chicago - and not necessarily next to the campus. Doesn't indicate a vibrant student community to me.

There are new really nice high-rise apartments on Lake Michigan, just like 1-2 miles east of campus.

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago is a good school. Go there because it's a good school and it has the program you are looking for. But don't go there because you imagibe it's already HYPS or because Gates' kid goes there. That's for people who need a constant pat on the back for going to HYPS.

I googled for the announcement that Rory Gates would attend U Chicago and the only place I saw this was on reddit. Not the most reliable source. And there’s another Reddit thread that has him attending Vanderbilt.

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago is a good school. Go there because it's a good school and it has the program you are looking for. But don't go there because you imagibe it's already HYPS or because Gates' kid goes there. That's for people who need a constant pat on the back for going to HYPS.

+1 It's a special place and it's prestige is a real asset to its' current students. You will be miserable though if you go for the ranking alone. Not the kind of peer group that views that kindly.

90+ % of the aspirants currently on campus applied and matriculated because it's No. 2 or 3 on US News.