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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Define "prestige."

If brand name recognition, Chicago, Illinois, Michigan.  These schools are prestigious the same way McDonald's, Burger King, KFC are prestigious, recognized all over the world.

For a connoisseur of food, those are fast, junk food.  Those with a different taste might name ellBulli, The French Laundry, Le Louis XV, Pierre Gagnaire, Noma, The Fat Duck, Mugaritz.  
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For those not concerned with name recognition, I would name Carleton, Oberlin, Grinnell, and Macalester.  
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UChicago as “fast, junk food,” ?

Now if you’d said UChicago = Faviken, you might have had some credibility.[/quote]

UChicago is worse than Michigan or Illinois.  My step-D who has no business with UChicago received more junk mails from Chicago than all schools combined, with the possible exception of Swarthmore.  As a D students, she was told by countless Chicago mass mailings that all she has to do is apply.  Chicago gets its prestige, i.e., selectivity, from mass mailing to every HS students in the US - just to reject them.  It is worse than Michigan or Illinois who didn't bother sending my step-D so many come-ons.  [/quote]

Did your stepdaughter apply to UChicago?[/quote]

NO.  She had no business applying to Chicago.  Had she applied, Chicago would have stopped its mailing campaign.  It sends out glossy junk mail - even long after the application cycle ends.  [/quote]

So the fact that they sent her direct mail had zero impact on UChicago’s selectivity stats.  [/quote]

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