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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Cite your source.  This is just completely untrue.  "Every undergrad I know?" is not a source.[/quote]

My child goes to a private school and many of his friends are at UChicago. They themselves have said that finance/consulting is the most popular interest and that few these days desire to go to the academia/PhD route. The finance clubs are extremely competitive and there is now targeted recruiting for undergrads from many top investment banking/consulting firms due to the demand/interest.

http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/pdfs/uchicago-class-of-2016-outcomes.pdf

The #1 destination was Business and Financial Services at 27%. Add consulting and that number jumps to 38%.

Compare to Yale: http://ocs.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/OCS%20Stats%20pages/Public%20-%20Final%20Class%20of%202016%20Report%20(6%20months).pdf

Finance- 15.3%, Consulting- 12.9%, Business- 4.2% = 32.4%. The number 1 industry choice was Education.

Brown: https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/support/careerlab/sites/brown.edu.campus-life.support.careerlab/files/uploads/CLAB_By%20the%20Numbers%20APR17.pdf

Finance + Consulting = 26%

Obviously every undergrad is a hyperbole but there's no denying that UChicago is pretty similar to the Ivies in terms of post-grad destinations/interests.[/quote]

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