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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You sound desperate OP. No one outside of the midwest cares about Chicago[/quote]

I'm from the Midwest. Most college-educated folks there have never heard of UChicago. And if they have heard of it, maybe 0.10% of them understand how hard it is to get in. Aside from Harvard and Stanford, getting into Michigan's engineering college or Notre Dame would be seen as a bigger accomplishment to almost everyone.[/quote]

I'm from the midwest and every college-educated person I've met has heard of U Chicago and consider it to be equivalent to Harvard but better because it's closer to home.

My anecdote beats your anecdote. 
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She probably wins. Most college educated people wouldn’t know the difference between Penn and Penn State either. Your typical college educated person is a graduate of a local state school. There’s merit in saying people only know if two prestigious schools in America: Harvard and the locally known “best” state university.

Chicago is a fine school. It had a long history of academic excellence and was long used as a backup for bright kids not making the cut at the Ivies. Usually geeky kids without much of a hook and that doomed them with the Ivy applications committees. It’s become hot in recent years because sharply declining admissions rates has forced more people to look at Chicago.

Once you graduate, no one cares whether you went to Chicago or Penn or WUSTL or Dartmouth.

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