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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We understand we are one of the lucky ones that have won the admission lottery so no flame please. DC is interested in STEM and in with significant merit at Case. For the other two we will have to be full pay. There is not much different between Cornell and Case for the programs (bio, medicine) DC is interested in and off course UChicago has the cache. Us parents feel she will not miss anything if she goes to Case and it will give her the flexibility to do a lot more which the other two wont and in the process save a ton of money for the future. DC is leaning UChicago, we think mostly because of the ranking. We can do full pay at the other two but rather not. WWYD?[/quote]

Is your kid truly a lonely, well-read child prodigy, with an IQ over about 170, who’s starved for a chance to talk to intellectual peers?

If your daughter is in the DMV, for example, and is obviously one of the 10 brightest seniors in the DMV, maybe you should consider stretching to send her to UChicago.

This could be wrong, but my guess would be that UChicago and Cornell might get roughly the same number of math prodigies, but the UChicago might get a lot more humanities and social sciences prodigies. I think that kids who are prodigies in the humanities and never study with intellectual peers end with a permanent handicap. They’ll never have an easy time communicating at the top of their intelligence. They’ll put so much energy into dumbing down their speech that they’ll always lose out to dumber kids who have made an effort to sell themselves.

If your daughter is much stronger in math and science than in other fields, or she’s an ordinary very bright kid, with no problem finding intellectual peers to talk to, she ought to go to Case Western. She’ll save money. She’ll take classes that are almost as good as the classes at the other schools. Because she’ll go in with great merit aid, the school will start out loving her and make it easy for her to get great student jobs and internships. [/quote]

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