University of Chicago

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They send out a lot of marketing material. DS gets about 1 piece of mail or an email from them every week.

Seriously. It reeks of desperation.

Or posts like these:

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/uchicago-more-popular-than-harvard-stanford-ivys-at-beverly-hills-high-school/2798813/ "UChicago More Popular Than Harvard, Stanford, Ivys at Beverly Hills High School"

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/uchicago-is-tops-at-top-prep-schools/2795312/ "UChicago is Tops at Top Prep Schools"

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/admit-rates-standardized-test-averages-cross-admit-results/2046971 "Admit Rates, Standardized Test Averages, Cross Admit Results"

The comments made by some of the Chicago boosters on collegeconfidential crack me up every time I read them over.

You’re weirdly invested in this, you know that, right? Try to let it go.

Nope, I just took a cursory glance when I was looking at the forums. This kind of boosterism turned me off seriously. You really don't see such a thing at any other school.

[Anonymous]

You researched and linked to posts on another website. What a hopeless dork.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You researched and linked to posts on another website. What a hopeless dork.

Have you (or your kids) never looked at college confidential when doing school research?

You sound just like every pretentious UChicago grad I know. I guess a "life of the mind" experience doesn't entail manners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Earlier in the thread it was predicted the crazy anti U of C would show up.

Who hurt you so?

You do realize there are multiple posters commenting on very different stuff? Why do you feel so butthurt when we voice our opinions on U of C?

[Anonymous]

Don't worry, all, the hoity-toity, I'm-better-than-you attitude is par for the course for UChicago students and alums. They practically drill it into them. The number of UChicago folks I've met who have unironically bragged about how they discuss Kant or Plato or whoever with their buddies in their free time is outrageous (seriously, this EXACT line, it's uncanny).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I work with a guy who went to UChicago. Nice guy, hardworking and smart but no street smarts at all. His emotional IQ is very low. He doesn’t understand the office politics at all which is key in my office to getting your projects approved and getting ahead. I try to help him out but others think he is weird because he mostly keeps to himself. He referred to UChicago as the type of place where students debate Plato in their free time.

This is known as an anecdote.

Yup, I agree. Was not trying to present it as anything else.

[Anonymous]

It'd be Stanford-tier if it weren't in cold, flyover and crime-ridden south Chicago. But it is in cold, flyover, and crime-ridden south Chicago -- so the kids who get into some place equally prestigious with better surroundings will always choose it over Hyde Park.

(And honestly, Notre Dame would also be Stanford and Harvard-tier were it not in dumpy Indiana.)

Durham is a craphole too but at least it's warm and on the East Coast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't worry, all, the hoity-toity, I'm-better-than-you attitude is par for the course for UChicago students and alums. They practically drill it into them. The number of UChicago folks I've met who have unironically bragged about how they discuss Kant or Plato or whoever with their buddies in their free time is outrageous (seriously, this EXACT line, it's uncanny).

Those are older alums. The current and recent kids are as shallow as any Penn alum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It'd be Stanford-tier if it weren't in cold, flyover and crime-ridden south Chicago. But it is in cold, flyover, and crime-ridden south Chicago -- so the kids who get into some place equally prestigious with better surroundings will always choose it over Hyde Park.

(And honestly, Notre Dame would also be Stanford and Harvard-tier were it not in dumpy Indiana.)

Durham is a craphole too but at least it's warm and on the East Coast.

Lol. Notre Dame is nowhere near the tier of these schools.

And woah there, don't believe everything Fox Channel spoon-feeds you. I agree that UChicago is overrated, but Chicago is a fantastic city, and objectively beautiful. You forget that it's the third largest city in America.

Duke doesn't even merit a mention in this conversation. Pass.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You researched and linked to posts on another website. What a hopeless dork.

Have you (or your kids) never looked at college confidential when doing school research?

You sound just like every pretentious UChicago grad I know. I guess a "life of the mind" experience doesn't entail manners.

Sure did. But don’t keep links handy to schools we didn’t like. Because that’s extremely weird. And nope, no connection to U Chicago. No wonder you hate it. You decide people you don’t like went there, even when they didn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You researched and linked to posts on another website. What a hopeless dork.

? Hostile and uncalled for.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don't worry, all, the hoity-toity, I'm-better-than-you attitude is par for the course for UChicago students and alums. They practically drill it into them. The number of UChicago folks I've met who have unironically bragged about how they discuss Kant or Plato or whoever with their buddies in their free time is outrageous (seriously, this EXACT line, it's uncanny).

Those are older alums. The current and recent kids are as shallow as any Penn alum.

Mic drop

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't worry, all, the hoity-toity, I'm-better-than-you attitude is par for the course for UChicago students and alums. They practically drill it into them. The number of UChicago folks I've met who have unironically bragged about how they discuss Kant or Plato or whoever with their buddies in their free time is outrageous (seriously, this EXACT line, it's uncanny).

Those are older alums. The current and recent kids are as shallow as any Penn alum.

Mic drop

So, insecure and pretentious older alums, shallow and status-obsessed recent alums? Sounds like a stellar combination.

[Anonymous]

would be nice if we could get back to OP's question.

[Anonymous]

Any school that inspires this much hate on DCUM must have a lot going for it.