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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More to UChicago and Duke and less to Harvard, Yale, Stanford and other Ivies.[/quote]

A lot of girls from the SS schools are going into those top schools for classics, English, History…

A lot of people here seem to value those elite matriculations for the more lucrative job career opportunities they supposedly provide. By that token, wouldn’t an econ degree from Chicago or even a computer science degree from Cornell put you on a more remunerative path than an English degree from Harvard? (And yes, I understand that a lot of those girls may never need to work a day in their lives…)[/quote]

Super curious about this as well. For a long time I had assumed that the majors that are posted don't reflect what the students actually go on to major in but rather what they applied with. Had assumed that applying in as a more humanities oriented major yields higher odds of admission. [/quote]

You can make a lot of money from a lot of schools if that's what you care about, and plenty of humanities majors also go on to lucrative careers in finance etc.  But no one's going to switch from English to engineering if the latter is not their thing.

And then a lot these differences between the placements comes down to ED strategy rather than the school or the students.  The thing about Chicago is that it's just as good as the ivies etc., but they have a "we just want the smartest kids" kind of admissions philosophy that leads them to take larger numbers of students from the top NYC privates provided they apply early.  So at some high schools, large numbers of students are committing to Chicago before hearing from ivies etc. where they also would have a had a good shot had they stayed in the running.  And then at other schools, you don't see that ED pattern with Chicago, and a lot of students are still doing well in RD.[/quote]

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