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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know this wasn't your question but since you brought up wanting a school with strengths across the board, UChicago is a good option for a high academic non-hooked kids.  Suburban campus  20minutes from a great city.  Kids who want an excellent education along with a brand do very well there.  Not easy to get into but he has the stats and interesting essays make it more of a possible than HYPSM  They appear to be primarily academic focused in their admissions.   And, it no longer has the oppressive atmosphere of it's past.  Worth a visit.  They also have an ED2 option if he refuses to apply to other than Harvard or Stanford early. The kids from the last few years of our private are very happy there.  Also , I disagree that MIT would be an alternative.  They really care about the contests as evidenced by the application.  In our area the kids that get in are either athletic hooks or the best of the STEM public school students.  [/quote]

OP here. At our east coast private there isn't as big of an interest for UChicago as for the Ivies,Stanford  so it wasn't in our radar from very early on. However, we eventually did consider it briefly and we did visit but he didn't really vibe with it and I can't say I particularly liked it either.  I was concerned about the culture (I guess these days it is probably better than before though). Plus we got the sense that the bioengineering and biomedical infrastructure was lacking compared to our other reach schools. But Chicago would be an amazing place for economics and natural sciences without a doubt. It just doesn't make sense to add a reach he doesn't really care for to the list. The ED2 option there is also binding so it wouldn't work for us, but thank you very much for the suggestion! [/quote]

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