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[quote=Anonymous]Back in my day, Chicago was the place that smart intellectual kids with top SAT scores but light ECs went. Even farther back it was one of the few places that didn’t have a quota for Jewish students (my phd supervisor went there undergrad, before he went to Oxford and then Harvard for PhD). It was not as selective as Ivies (or as it is now), but its graduates have always been highly respected among academics and professionals.  My spouse went to Chicago, I went to HYP; thanks to the core and Chicago’s academic rigor they got the better education, no question. I’m not sure what to make of what I read here about Chicago—their ED/admissions policies certainly seem to be a bit mercenary, and the deficits are worrying. But has the education actually declined, I’m just not sure. Chicago is a rigorous school and the core is no joke; a Chicago transcript with a top GPA means more than an inflated transcript from many Ivies where grad schools and employers just have no idea what they are getting. For reasons unrelated to prestige DC was not interested in Chicago so I have not done a deep dive into the current state of things, and I have no dog in this fight. But reputations are sticky, as the economists might say, and while Chicago might be perceived as a relatively easier admit in super-elite prep school bubbles right now, I can assure you that a Chicago degree carries prestige in academic and professional circles, and this is also true for those who graduated when it was much much less selective. [/quote]

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