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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Private school parent here at a school that sends a lot of kids to Chicago.  My take: kids I know attending are amazingly bright and interesting. Maybe you are correct in saying they didn’t look quite as good on paper for whatever reason.  They didn’t play the game as well, is the best way I can describe it but I sort of think, the applicants are a little more refreshing (and varied) because of it. Most are just as smart as the kids who are at the Ivies.  The differences between kids’ actual abilities are pretty modest in my mind.  [/quote]

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