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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chicago is NOT at your doorstep, Evanston is.  It’s a sketchy ride down through Rogers Park etc.  I’m n the El.
Uber or hitch a ride w/upperclassman with  a car.  
It is booger-freezing and tearstain-causing windy freezing cold in the winter.  Nice in fall and spring, albeit for a brief period.  
Very wealthy student body overall, many students love their bottle service when they go downtown.  
They’ve really gamed the rankings since the 1990s when their acceptance rate was way, way higher.  They don’t like Chicago suburban students or Illinoisans as much now, either.  Good luck applying from the DMV!  [/quote]

FYI---all of the top schools had much higher acceptance rates in the 1990s.  
Columbia was 28% in 1992. 
Harvard was 16% in 1992. 
UPenn was 39% in 1992.

It was definately much "easier" to get into college in 1990s.  Now with people applying to 15+ schools, it is largely the same group applying to all the top 20 schools.  Yet there are still only the same 1500-2000 spots at most of those schools.  In 1992, we picked our 3-5 top schools and applied.  Now kids pick 10-20 schools and apply.  [/quote]

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