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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My UChicago kid's a STEM major, headed toward a PhD program.  She's had really good advising both from Career Services and departmental faculty.

FWIW, I think the 38% in business/consulting is a percentage not of the class as a whole but of those who go directly into the workforce after receiving a BA.  UChicago claims 15-20% of its College grads go on to receive PhDs and that that's a higher percentage than any other university's college (in the US?).  https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/academics/planning/grad-prep[/quote]

[b]I don't think so since law and medicine are clearly separated out.[/b]  For the last point, I don't believe it's true for recent graduates/alums. UChicago is not even in the top 10 for PhD production per capita any more (https://www.reed.edu/ir/phd.html). It used to be in the top 5 but as the classes become increasingly pre-professional the PhD route is getting less and less popular among students.

UChicago began its marketing strategy around 2013 and had its first post-marketing class graduate in 2017, so an accurate reflection will be noticeable in a few years. [/quote]

Actually that is what makes me believe that these are job numbers — the percentages are too low to encompass law school applicants (closer to 10% of the class — not 3%).  And there are jobs in both sectors (law and medicine) that require only BAs.  For example, recent grads unsure about law school often work as paralegals for a couple of years.

Agree that the demographics of the school could be changing.  But faculty and culture still seems very supportive of kids who are interested in academia, which is why I referenced my daughter’s experiences. [/quote]

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