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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah sorry, UChicago students of today aren't status obsessed? Every undergrad I know wants to go into consulting or finance. It has become an image of all the Ivies. Nowhere near as academically robust/focused as it used to be. The career center has taken emphasis which is respectable but not when it comes to the detriment of the culture UChicago had.

Students who truly desire "life of the mind" aren't going to UChicago anymore. They're going to LACs like Reed and Swarthmore. UChicago and all the other top universities have the same sort of profiles and interests among their groups- you could swap undergrads from one school to another and not see any meaningful change result. [/quote].

Your post says more about the kinds of people you know than about UofC, I suspect.  And some “life of the mind” kids want to go directly to the playground where the big kids hang out.  They want to be around grad students and cutting-edge researchers and in a university with a myriad of course offerings.  Those kids aren’t drawn to LACs. UofC certainly doesn’t have a monopoly on intellectual kids, but if you are not a life of the mind type, you’re probably not going to enjoy UofC.  [/quote]

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