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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Visiting with U of Chicago with my niece yesterday, met at least 100 kids that were accepted but not committed and most likely choosing other schools.(My niece has commited).  It was very surprising.  I even met a kid who was going to decline U of C to attend U of Richmond.  I also met a very impressive kid from Herndon who attends South Lakes HS.  Went on and on about how great the IB program there is-was also accepted at three U of CA schools and other top 10 schools. But said  most likely going to attend UVA.

This is my first time visiting the campus and it is really beautiful.  We had a wonderful tour guide and the school really went all out during the visit.  My niece loves it. [/quote]

We were very, very impressed by the campus, but turned off by how weird the students were. Kind of a depressing vibe. We talked to prospective parents whose child was deciding primarily between UChicago and the Ivies, and occasion other top 20 private schools and LACs. Didn't really hear that anyone with certainty was picking some place else over Chicago. Our child had a mixed reaction and will visit some more before deciding.[/quote]

UChicago is not for the glam type - you know the manhattanite who wants to become a socialite or a social butterfly. Definitely not a Carrie Bradshaw type of school, but more a X-Files Scully type of school.

It's a school with students turned on by knowledge, and not the latest in Kardashian world or what Megan Markle will be wearing at her wedding. They just don't give a crap about that as much, but care what the FED might be doing to monetary policy, the meaning behind that Emily Dickinson poem, or traveling to Myanmar to solve world hunger. So there are a lot of global kids, not so much from the in-crowd, but rather its outskirts.

It is not for gossip girls, but perhaps more for the kid who wants to be a world scientist  or institutional leader. It's a very different tribe of kids -- not east coast Brown, Harvard or Tufts. But far more Ally Sheedy than Molly Ringwald (Breakfast Club). Rougher around the edges and happy to be so. Makeup -- optional. If that's not your daughter then it is not the right place for her. [/quote]

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