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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD is at Brown and loves it.  My nephew just finished first year at Chicago and will be taking a year off and applying to transfer elsewhere -- he's a bright, intellectually curious and hard-working kid 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.  [/quote]

Yikes. This sounds like a really honest appraisal. [b]But isn’t your nephew screwed trying to transfer with, I presume, a low gpa?[/b][/quote]

He should be fine.  He's got a good GPA, actually, and has connected with three students from the class ahead who were all successful transfer applicants.  We hope he'll switch to Brown, actually, which has a better applied math program than UofC.    [/quote]

Why would you assume that someone who wants to transfer has a low GPA? I transferred out of a college with a 4.0 GPA. The college was too greek-focused, and too big for me. I thrived at my second college.[/quote]

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