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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chicago if your kid is an intellectual  who enjoys hanging around super smart kids and discussing a wide range of topics. Also id he or she intends to go to graduate or medical or law school. If your kid is smart, outgoing, hangs out with kids  who enjoy social
Activities. UVA is a better choice. [/quote]

Do many Chicago kids feed into US medical and t14 law schools? Both require top gpa, which is near impossible at UC. Bottom 50% at UC are smart as hell but have low gpas compared to the 3.8 3.9 4.0 kids at Ivies LACs and public Us.[/quote]

Someone posted above the medical school acceptance rate of approximately 80% for UChicago, consistent with other top schools in the country including top LAC's.  The average medical acceptance rate hovers around 40%.[/quote]

Who do they consider premed? Is there an application to be in the track? GPA requirement? Do they advice people "out" of it if they don't think the application will be successful?

You can't trust stats like that without context.[/quote]

I agree.  The UChicago parent who posted also stated the stats s/he received recently from Chicago is from 2015 - not the lower 2016 stats - suggesting Chicago is putting its best foot forward.  Surprising number of students who start out as premeds drop out as their GPA gets destroyed from series of weeder courses. State unis are notorious for weeder courses.  I am guessing less so at Chicago and other top schools, but I imagine schools do not remove all structural barriers.  Swarthmore, for example, openly states it does not give out its committee recommendations lightly.

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Context has been provided, yet you chose to ignore it in favor of guessing/imagining and suggesting some attempt at concealment.  All this info is posted on UChicago’s website.  Make of it what you will, but geez, why opine about a school without any basis in fact or experience?[/quote]

Because the poster is a loser who got rejected and do hates the school and is looking to scare others. Reasoning with such losers is pointless. You just have to insult them continuously
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