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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid loves it - physics and math. Went to a Maryland public. As others have said, it is not cut-throat, competitive, but is for kids that want an intellectual environment and enjoy it.

We visited Northwestern, and my kid was turned off by the student tour guide and student presentation that emphasized how to get out of hard work by taking a course on chocolate, for example.

Yes, trips to different parts of Chicago happen pretty often, my kid tutors, is a member of several clubs and has some good friends groups. They go to museums, Chinatown, Wicker Park, Lincoln Park, little Russia, comedy and concerts.[/quote]

My DS is a junior and wants to study physics- high stats etc. He was similarly turned off by one tour guide at our flagship public who talked about which classes were the “easiest”. We have looked at Chicago, but I was turned off by the physics website bc it seemed not particularly welcoming to undergraduates. In your experience, is the university doing a better job than it used to catering to undergraduates? I am glad to hear it’s not cut throat (my kid isn’t one to compare scores etc) but I still worry that it’s indifferent to the undergrad experience. Is it fun for the right kid? My kid is “right” for that place in many respects, but I want the place to also care about him…

I went there to grad school there and got a phenomenal education and career out of it but the undergrads I knew - admittedly not a lot - didn’t seem happy.

Thanks for sharing your child’s experiences.  [/quote]

We were in Hyde Park for a post-graduate experience too, and my husband said they had just started to turn around that culture of not paying attention to undergraduates. My kid finds the physics department very good, and has really enjoyed classes and working in one of the quantum labs. Before going to UChicago, she worked with a professor at UMD, and returned to a different lab during the summer after she started at UChicago. She had really good experiences at UMD too, and they really seem to make space for undergraduates in the lab there, if that's what you're considering. Altogether though, I think UChicago offered her that intellectual experience she wanted across several different subject areas, she has enjoyed the Core for the most part, and as a parent, I'm glad she had that rich experience in addition to the physics.[/quote]

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