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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seriously. People on DCUM are really trying to convince us that a 1-2 hour flight to Chicago is somehow soooo much harder or sooooo much more isolated than, say, an 8 hour drive or a 1-2 hour flight to NYC or Boston + 3 hour drive into the wilderness. Delusional.[/quote]

O'Hare to UChicago or vice versa is literally 1 hr and 30 to 40 minutes via public transport, so don't forget to add on over 3 hrs RT.

Yes, UChicago is isolating on the south side and in Chicago. It's weird how everyone hypes "Chicago" which means downtown and Cubs games. But UChicago is not downtown, it's actually 30 to 60 minutes south of downtown. It's akin to saying Rockville or Gaitherburg (MD) are "in DC".

And Chicago, the city of, is far more isolating to east and west coast kiddos because no acela and all their friends are in eastern seaboard schools. Are you really not grasping that friend groups at Penn, Villanova, Columbia, NYU, Brown, Harvard, Boston College, Hopkins, Georgetown have a far easier time of seeing each other than the kid from Hyde Park, Chicago visiting their friend at the same colleges? And do you really not grasp these rich kids on the east coast pop on flights to Miami and Europe at the drop of a dime?[/quote]

AYFKM that Hyde Park is the equivalent to Gaithersburg?

Not even for a moment. An Uber will take you from U of C’s campus to downtown in 20/25 minutes. Maximum. It’s not even the ‘far’ south side of the city — Chicago goes down to the 130s or so and HP is in the 50s/60s. Plus, many students don’t leave campus all that often anyway — as is the case at many universities.  To equate a college that gets dragged for being in an ‘inner city den of crime’ to the DC ‘burbs in any way shape or form is grasping at straws.

There literally are so many logical issues with this PP that I want to pull out a map, Katie Porter style, to go through them all.

But, at the end, if your priority is making sure Larla can jump on the same jet and go off to Miami (which, BTW, is LITERALLY CLOSER TO CHICAGO THAN BOSTON) for the weekend with her rich buddies, then… ok. You do you. [/quote]

I agree with you 100%. I recognize this PP; they've posted on threads about both UChicago and Northwestern before, using the same weird, illogical arguments. My guess is their kid got rejected from one or both schools, and they've been on a vendetta against the greater Chicagoland region since then. Apparently it's of utmost importance that their sweet Larla is able to really easily visit their friends at Villanova instead of, you know, enjoying college and making friends and immersing themselves in campus life like any other well-adjusted college student. What a strange thing to tout as an important consideration.[/quote]

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