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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] "If you’re a serious student with true intellectual curiosity, this is probably the best University in the US to attend. You will be pushed, you will be stretched, you will be challenged, and you will wrestle with some of the smartest people on this planet over important issues, 24/7. It is a place that is well aware of its history & celebrates intellectual accomplishment. If you are up to the challenge, U. Chicago is for you. Otherwise, go to Harvard or some other place."[/quote]

Sounds like what you'll find at most major universities in America. Chicago is not special in this regard.  :roll: [/quote]

NP here. As an undergrad, I went to one of the Ivies that this board deems top tier. I then went to Chicago for my doctoral work, and taught a few undergrad courses while I was there. The Chicago kids seemed considerably sharper than the kids at my alma mater.[b] They also seemed considerably more neurotic.[/b]

Some of this is probably owed to the fact that they often end up taking classes side-by-side with graduate students, who are neurotic by definition.  ?Regardless, it remains a place I would only recommend to students looking for a serious intellectual challenge.[/quote]

Spot on. Neurotic, grubby, upper middle class / rich kids.[/quote]

Only anecdotal but I would say neurotic just about personified the kids on most of the elite campuses we met over the course of many tours.  They sounded and looked like they had been on a treadmill for years and if you asked them questions outside the canned speech, their responses were centered around career outcomes.  We didn't go to all the schools but certainly HYPS and Penn.  I will say UChicago, Cornell and Williams did not seem as wired to us.
This is very recently. Perhaps this negative comparison race we participate in as their parents has something to do with it?  I think all of these schools have good and not as good facets.  If you do a one to one between them there will always be something negative to say.  I think it would be more helpful to people looking at colleges to point out the positive.  But then again that wouldn't be any fun for the anti-Chicago posters would it?

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I loved U Penn and enjoyed the fascinating, bright, normal kid that conducted our tour. My kid had no interest for whatever reason (most likely the perceived lack of good places to get food and hang out close by) but I wanted to go there and get an education.[/quote]

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