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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is uncool to remain in Chicago after graduating. The gunners all move to the coasts.[/quote]

I’m a coastie but Chicago would be world class if they just went full Lee kwan yew

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Of course, but that will never happen, so it's a bleeding city and uncool to stay there when you have better options. The kids who really love the city of Chicago are the kids from the Midwest who want to remain close to family. Average Big Ten graduates love Chicago. More competitive top 20 private college graduates generally don't want to be in the middle of the country, they prefer New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, Miami and Boston.[/quote]

You say many things (e.g. , what's considered "uncool" or who the kids who love Chicago are) as if they are facts, but they're not.  It is your biased opinion,, so of no value. [/quote]

It is not an opinion that most UChicago students flee the Midwest after graduation. This sub-topic came about after someone asked why go to college for four years in the crummy south side of Chicago if you are not going to remain in Chicago after graduation. It is not like UChicago offers such a distinct education or provides any bump in pay or prestige; UChicago salaries are relatively awful. You are better off going to college someone ranked a little lower in the region you can see yourself living in after college.[/quote]

As has been posted several times previously, a majority of students at lots of top schools leave the city or state in which they attend undergrad.  Do you think most Yale graduates stay in New Haven or Connecticut?  Or that no one should go to Princeton if they intend to work in LA?  And was also shown, the percentage of students who stay in the Midwest after graduating from U of C is greater than the percentage of students from the Midwest who enroll there as freshmen. So it's not just kids remaining close to home.  [/quote]

It’s not just the city and state, it is a fact UChicago kids flee the entire Midwest region of the country. The majority of Yale students end up in New York City, Boston, and Washington, making Yale power more concentrated in the same region of the country. And obviously a Yale degree carries much more prestige coast to coast. Nobody outside of the city of Chicago really cares about a UC degree. And even in Chicago, more than likely your boss will be some Big Ten or Notre Dame grad, so they don’t care about your UC degree either.[/quote]

Your word choice reflects your extreme bias and the heavy axe you have to grind against the Midwest.  UC kids aren't "fleeing" the Midwest -- students go there to get a great education at a top-rated school in a world-class city, not because they plan to stay in the Chicago area or the Midwest in general after graduation.  (And plenty of non-Midwesterners do decide to stay in the region.)  Do you think all the Ivy kids going to work in California or Seattle are "fleeing" the East Coast?  And of course you have to throw in unfounded assumptions devoid of credible evidence (e.g., no one outside Chicago cares about a University of Chicago degree) to grind that axe even further.  It's SO tiresome. [/quote]

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