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[quote=Anonymous]The weird thing about Chicago is that it easily a top 5 academic institution in the US -- just compare it to, say, Brown or Dartmouth -- yet the students they have decided go after are typically a tier below those who matriculate at ivies. The profile is well-known: private school, full pay, ED1 kids with 1500+ but weaker GPAs relative to the top performers, and often weaker ECs. The divide is very clear at my kid's top private (not in DC): none of the top decile of students, say, apply to Chicago at their ED school. It is typically the 3.6-3.7 UW kid with a 1520 -- that is, a relatively unremarkable record -- that is counseled into that strategy. But again, in purely academic terms it is a clear tier above (in most fields at least) a number of institutions we tend to think of as peers or even stronger in terms of prestige. [/quote]
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