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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow - so many people describing "cut-throat" environment, or "arbitrarily hard". I have two kids there. Yes, both really love to learn, but they have close sets of friends, go out weekend nights, have lots of activities, and don't describe things this way. They find the faculty really good, and describe most of their classes as really interesting. Different kids, but neither would switch.[/quote]

I’ve never even seen the campus. I could be wrong. But I picture core UChicago people as being people who, as children,  memorized almanacs for fun, wish they’d known Plato, and see familiarity with something like the core as being essential to being an educated person. They’re people who, if they come from an affluent household, with no disabilities or other testing issues, are going to score 780 or higher on the verbal SATs, without prepping, because they’re the kind of people who write the SATs.

My suspicion is that a lot of the people who go to UChicago and are unhappy are bright, well-rounded people who wanted to go to a prestigious school, not the almanac memorizers.

I have been at Northwestern, and I think the situation is the reverse there. That’s a place that makes bright, well-rounded go-getters feel great and the almanac memorizers feel a lot of stress.[/quote]

This is such a lazy, uninformed, cliched perspective. Not to mention patronizing.[/quote]

My kid is the almanac memorizer.  He actually did that.  Deciding if it would be a good place for him or not....[/quote]

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