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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The OP is apoplectic and  is trying his best to talk UChicago down. Must be an intense hatred fueled by rejection and jealously over the school's rise in the most consequential of the US based college rankings aka UsNews.

Despite his hate,  Chicago marches on becoming more and more popular because it is one of the few elite schools left that actually values talent and academic metrics over issues like race diversity and unwritten quotas for certain races. If you are an unhooked academically gifted white or Asian kid, the Ivies just don't want you because you are toxic in terms of diversity for them. For such kids Chicago is a blessing if you demonstrate interest for the school.

Also for moderate to conservative students the atmosphere in Chicago is so much better than the toxic leftist environment at almost every Ivy league school and the parents I know have started to notice. This year I know of a number of parents who refused to send their high achieving kids to these leftist bubbles and instead looked at schools like Chicago,
These are full pay families that don't want to subsidize illeberal behavior at the Ivies. The Ivy brand is not what it used to be and folks like the OP just have to get used to it. [/quote]

Ugh, I hate this kind of post.  My kid is at a UofC (which we both think is a great school) but shares none of these opinions. She values the diversity she encounters there and reassures me that the a-hole parents I keep encountering online don’t reflect the school’s culture at all.  It’s an intellectual place, so people care more about how (and that) you think, listen, learn, and engage than about where you’d place yourself on an ideological spectrum.  [/quote]

You must be a a*hole parent, to call another by that name, because of their political opinion. Don't you know that "Diversity of viewpoints" also counts as diversity? or are you one of those leftists who only value "certain kinds of diversity". If you kid really values diversity, then she should value interacting with moderates and conservatives, not just "liberals", otherwise she is just a fake.

Anyway, you know the school is doing the right thing when it comes to free speech issues and standing firm on not allowing students to dictate curriculum and invite policies at the school.

Even the Harvard Business Review has taken notice and featured the UChicago President prominently in a recent article.

https://hbr.org/cover-story/2018/03/divided-we-lead

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