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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Terrific school hurt by its crummy location. Chicago is a massive city and the campus is deep in its south side, which is war torn and dangerous except for the campus and a Whole Foods. It takes an hour to get downtown on public transportation and it's not a safe trek to put it mildly. It's cold and grey most of their Oct-June school year. Living in Chicago is a dream come true for Midwest-raised kids but to international, Sunbelt, East and West coast kids it's just 'meh'.

Leaving the Big Ten conference 60 years ago was probably a mistake they wish they could take back. Look how sports have helped Stanford, Duke, Northwestern and Notre Dame. Big Ten membership brings in $60 million cash to each college, plus the name rec, the alum engagement, on and on.[/quote]

Northwestern's location on the Northside of Chicago (right outside city limits IIRC) is actually ideal IMO. Access to the big city, and actually closer to the more exciting neighborhoods and sights than UChicago, ironically, but also has its own cute little college town.[/quote]

My DC DC loved Chicago and thought Evanston was boring and very suburban (“Bethesda”). She and classmates routinely went downtown (or to other neighborhoods) and never had any problem wrt safety. Used all forms of public transit as well as Uber. Different people have different tastes and different perceptions re safety. [b]FWIW, last time I saw neighborhood-level stats (2018 data), Hyde Park had a significantly lower violent crime rate than Lincoln Park.[/b] And Hyde Park is closer to the Loop and Mag Mile than Evanston is. [/quote]

As someone who spent over 10 years in Chicago, this is a strange claim. Cite a source on that. If you're just look at the bottom line numbers, of course Lincoln Park would [i]appear[/i] more dangerous as it has over 3x the population and it's 3x the sq/mi. Per capita? No chance Hyde Park is safer. You're also being very misleading because campus is in both Hyde Park and Woodlawn.[/quote]

Note the lack of follow up. The PP was another misleading and defensive UChicago parent whose kid got rejected from all the Ivies. She personally probably visited Hyde Park twice and now she's an expert. :roll: [/quote]

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