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[quote=Anonymous]"The days of applying based on "fit" are long gone in an age of single digit acceptance rates. Smart kids apply to 6-12 of their favorite in the top 20 and thank heavens if they get into 1."

"who has found Chicago to be filled with too many kids who are either self-consciously quirky or disgruntled b/c they didn't get into HYPS. He likes the Core, but feels many students are engaged in intellectual combat with profs who are bent on grade deflation."

If we went back to applying based on "fit", we would see less of these problems.  The death of the double degree would also help.

There is a quote floating around the web that goes, "At my convocation, the dean made a point (paraphrasing): "We'll give you a lot of work here, more than you can handle. Part of your education is learning what you can ignore." So if you know what you want and what you are capable of, you'll be fine."

I didn't go to Chicago but I can tell you the most important thing I relearn every so often is that you have to figure out what to ignore in order to be able to do anything at a high level.[/quote]

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