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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]where have you been?[/quote]

+1 No different than 30 years ago.[/quote]

Same back in the late 80s. 
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Agree. UChicago has always been more of a niche place--the place where professors like to send their kids and very well-known among academics.  
I went to high school deep in flyover country. When I went there in the late 1980s, my parents (MD) had basically hardly heard of it and figured it was nice enough but my uncles with PhDs thought it was awesome. And it turned out to be a great choice for me--not unlike a liberal arts version of MIT (high nerd quotient).

Anecdote: one of my h.s. teachers ran into one of her university professors and the conversation went:
HS teacher: "Larla here is going to HARVARD."
Professor: "Oh, and where are you going, Larla2?"
Me: Chicago.
Professor: "Oh, I would much rather go to Chicago."

Also Chicago back then was also a fallback for New England kids who couldn't get in to Ivies.  Those kids tended to be grumpy that their Ivy high school friends were definitely not working as hard.[/quote]

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