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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chicago has changed a lot in recent years. It used to be a liberal arts nerd school. It was a place for "intellectuals" for lack of a better word. And they took super smart students from all over, including public schools in big cities and small towns. You'd meet a Chicago grad in the faculty lounge or a think tank.

Nowadays Chicago is like Sidwell Friends goes to college. Standard smart kids with privilege and money. You're more likely to meet a Chicago grad at the country club today rather than a conference focused on history or economics. It's a change.

Not sure it's a good change. W[b]e need more nerd schools, not less[/b].[/quote]

The fly in the ointment is that the classic "nerd schools" are not flourishing. Life of the mind is a hard sell in today's economy.[/quote]

Top 20 schools need more standard smart kids. They are currently filled with pointy, specialized kids that lack the social skills you see with standard smart kids. Have toured any of these schools in the last 3 years?? [/quote]

yes especially seems true of harvard and the specific type of students who have been admitted from our school past 5 years. very smart, pointy and socially odd. intellectually gifted kids but not socially gifted. I wonder what the peer group feels like if you are a standard strong kid at harvard these days.

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Agree. But I am also wondering what UChicago is like socially. I’ve never heard of a private sending so many to a single school, year after year. Our private has a healthy distribution amongst the ivies and T10. 15 matriculants makes no sense and would give me pause as a parent.[/quote]

15 kids my high school graduating year went to Harvard. Out of a class of 175. It was fine. We all ended up branching out in college and did not stick to the high school social circle, though it was nice to have a base of friends from which to meet friends of friends. It was not high school 2.0 by any means, and in a way, it was actually really nice to already know a few upperclassmen at Harvard who had gone to the same high school and could ask them for advice. [/quote]

15 out of 175 to Harvard? What school is this??[/quote]

A well known feeder school. [/quote]

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