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[quote=Anonymous]I have a kid for whom an essential component of fit was classmates who are there for the academics and whose eagerness to learn was broad-based rather than limited to a particular field.  Personally, I thought this was a weird stake, but it is what DC wanted, so the question OP is asking strikes me as a reasonable one.  And the fact that s/he's asking it doesn't make it less so.  Sometimes parents help kids with their research on colleges and seek out information in places where their kids would never look.  I'd rather have the parent ask than to think a HS student is spending time on a site like DCUM.  The level of venom and misinformation here is pretty high and the signal to noise ratio pretty low.

FWIW, my DC's answer to this question was UChicago (which I posted previously, so this is not another "vote" for U of C), but I'll add (what I didn't mention earlier) that DC has been really happy with the cohort/faculty accessibility/ethos there.
But I do think a kid really has to believe in/want the core and be willing to put in the hours for U of C to be a happy-making choice.[/quote]

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