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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not impressed by Chicago at all. I went to an Ivy and my school doesn’t spam high school students it has no intention of admitting with materials to try and make it seem more selective than it is already.  And I don’t see alumni going out of their way to denigrate top state schools like UVA, Michigan or Berkeley, either.  It just comes across as constant self-promotion by people who couldn’t quite make the cut. [/quote]

Ok, new poster here. I’ll chime in about this.

I went to one of the (ugh I hate this phrase) “top tier” Ivies for undergrad.

Then I went to Chicago, where I also taught undergrads while getting my grad degree.

Honestly, the Chicago kids seemed brighter all around. I’m not excited to admit that — the realization diminished my pride in my alma mater a bit. But the Chicago admissions committee is clearly doing something right. And the classes, from what I saw, are much more rigorous, not least because the more advanced undergrads are often side by side with grad students enrolled in the same course.

In other words, I don’t think the Chicago cheering squad is simply made up of people who “couldn’t quite make the cut.”

But with regard to OP’s question, I have no idea if her child should go to Chicago or UVA. Getting saddled with huge debt isn’t worth even a world class education, and I don’t think Chicago’s name is *so* glittering that the degree would be worth the price tag in terms of status points. (Honestly, I think only Harvard has that kind of cachet globally, although, in my opinion, the cachet is not merited.)[/quote]

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