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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UChicago is trying to become a peer to the Ivies. In academic circles it has been one for generations, but they want to be seen that way by the social elites.

I have no clue why this site hates on UChicago so much. People complain that elite colleges disadvantage kids from competitive high schools, but they also trash UChicago for admitting large numbers of private school kids that aren't top of class. [/quote]

Miserable middle class strivers rage at things they (and their children) can’t get access to and can’t afford. Same reason the private school forum here is full of seething public school parents. Same reason the real estate forum is full of seething proles who live in shacks and townhomes mocking so-called McMansions they can’t afford. See also country club discourse.[/quote]

This has nothing to do with the middle class. It’s the private school parents that are seething because they couldn’t get access to the Ivy League, Stanford or MIT and had to settle for UChicago (in spite of their endless curating). [/quote]

And yet your kids, if you even have any, can’t get in and you couldn’t afford it if they could.[/quote]

Is this how you behave in everyday life?[/quote]

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