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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems like UChicago has an identity crisis - or its supporters do?  It wants to be considered at the level of an Ivy but does not have that reputation. Stanford and Duke and a few other schools seems to have the same "prestige" as an Ivy and no identity crisis - but Chicago struggles. Why?[/quote]

UChicago’s identity crisis is reflection of the US’s ambivalence about what makes an elite university elite — is it that it attracts/produces the smartest people or the richest people?  Ivies (and some of the older LACs), historically and to somewhat varying degrees, were in the social elite camp.  UChicago (and places like JHU and MIT) have, historically, been in the intellectual elite camp.  UChicago is facing a moment (as Stanford did in the 1980s, for somewhat different but also somewhat related reasons) where it’s better able to compete for the social elite.  Stanford never defined itself against that model, but UChicago did.  Hence the identity crisis. UChicago will get over it, but how and where the balance gets struck is currently up for grabs and some people (on opposite sides) feel very strongly that these are high-stakes decisions.[/quote]

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