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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Different poster.  The numbers are fairly on target.  The Chicago popularity has to do with the number of prior year graduates reporting back on how happy they are.  I'm guessing that being prepared for that level of rigor and faculty attention probably helped them have the time to have fun!    Admittedly miserable weather but great city.  And it is a tough school to get into.  This was a really strong academic class and many good writers which I imagined helped with those unusual essays.
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Oh come on!  Who at Chicago has ever had fun?[/quote]

Kids who like learning and a challenge.  Virtues to be celebrated in this increasingly intellectually flabby country.[/quote]

That's not fun!  That's also not really undergraduate life at Chicago either.

I also agree with PP that, if Sidwell had 20 go to Ivies, 10 at Chicago seems off.  An earlier poster had a link to GDS's numbers from last year and GDS had 20 go to Ivies and 2 or 3 go to Chicago, which make more sense---that Chicago would attract about what an average Ivy would.

But bottomline is that everything about Chicago for an undergrad is miserable (and it's in a great city, but sits in truly awful Hyde Park, which is far, far away from any place that any 18 year old actually wants to be.
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Funny how some of the smartest kids in the country, year after year chose to go to a place that is so miserable.

And the number is right.[/quote]

LOL.  Unless you go there to worship the memory of Milton Friedman, it's one God-forsaken place to spend four years.  I feel bad for those ten Sidwell grads.  Poor dears.[/quote]

U of C grad here again.  For those posters who are criticizing U of C as miserable, what is the basis for your criticism?  If you were a student there, then I acknowledge and respect your point of view.  At least for me, as I said in my post just above, I really liked it.  And if a student is serious about academics, it's a pretty great place.  It's been a great credential for me for post-graduate education and career-wise (and I'm in my 40's now).[/quote]

Sounds like poster has a personal issue with U of C.  so weird they would leave out details and make a broad brush criticism of one of the best schools in the country.  Weird. [/quote]

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