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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great for kids who are truly intellectual/life-of-the-mind students and maybe a little bit quirky. But they have to okay with a heavy workload, cold weather, and a city environment where there is some risk of crime. For the right kid, it is fabulous academic environment.[/quote]

But if your kid rooms with a kid who isn’t this kind of kid, it can turn nightmarish pretty fast and campus mental health support is grossly inadequate.[/quote]

PP whose husband teaches at U of C and there is some truth to the mental health concerns. And don't blame the weather or Hyde Park -- it's kind of a chicken/egg question (the kinds of kids attracted to U of C tend to be pretty Type A and college tends to be a place where a lot of those kinds of people burn out).

My husband has several students, *mostly* but not entirely grad students, who have had mental health crises. One was institutionalized (self admit). None of them had anything nice to say about U of C's involvement in their mental health struggles, and it would definitely be concerning to me if I had a student there who had any kind of anxiety or borderline substance abuse issues. [/quote]

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