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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread reads like a paid infomercial program. [/quote]

Positivity bothers you. Classic DCUM. [/quote]
it's not even positivity -- it's just facts. Northwestern and U of Chicago have always been top tier, sought after schools that attract high achieving students (albeit generally different in vibe). [/quote]

They are great schools. You wish the administrators at U Chicago were as confident, they are not. So much so they have to adopt ED to lock students, then still not enough, and have to device an ED II to lock more rejects by other top schools. High schoolers were bombarded by Chicago's flyers every couple of weeks throughout the year to invite them to apply. This is the only school doing this much ad aside from U of Pheonix. If not for that we already know it is a legitimate school we would think this is some scam. Why so? How about some confidence.
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This. Couldn't agree more to the above post. I'm shocked that a school this high in ranking acts like a mediocre super-expensive private school desperate to get the rich kids enrolled. As hard to get into as U Chicago is, it's unbelievable how low they will go for a kid from an expensive private school. And no school ranked in T25 mails out this much glossy marketing materials to ALL types of kids they have no intention of accepting.[/quote]

There is that point. Well taken. And what the AOs at Chicago say that also rings true is the fact that UChicago is looking for a particular type of kid. Quirky. Nerdy. Creative, non linear thinker. Maybe on the introverted side. I’ve heard them say that part of the reason they send out all the glossies and want so many applications is because they are looking for a type that you can’t see well before the application. And I’ve also heard them say that they rely on ED so much because they like applicants who self-select. It’s a strong signal that they kid thinks they fit the type so much that they’re willing to spend their ED card on UChicago.

Is that true? Could be at least partly true. [/quote]

I think that University of Chicago is probably the best research university in the country for brilliant liberal arts majors. My sense is that Stanford and the Ivy League schools tend to attract a lot of status-conscious, money-hungry creeps, and that the best places for nice kids who are into ideas are probably the University of Chicago, Rice and Northwestern.

My son might be a kid who would have benefited from the Great Books program there.

But the problem is that the University of Chicago program makes the university look as if it’s full of fun skateboarders, not anguished intellectuals trying to make sense out of Plato.

My son read marketing materials about a circus performer club there and came away wanting to go there to learn to be a trapeze artist. I think that, if the University of Chicago marketing materials lead kids to think of it as a pre-circus professional school, that’s a problem. [/quote]

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