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[quote=Anonymous]Looking back at your comment re having trouble with a pressure cooker environment, let me add a few more thoughts to my last post (8:23). It may also matter how your kid reacts to environment generally. Kids at UChicago are frequently/visibly/vocally stressed out. Not everyone, not always, not to the exclusion of doing fun things. But the atmosphere is contents under pressure. Which can be contagious — it has been for my DC. FWIW, I don’t think it would have been for me. I tend to live more in my own head when I’m doing academic stuff. I learned more from books and profs than from classmates. And pleasure motivates me more than pressure. I attended HYP (well, 2/3) and I think DC’s getting a comparable education (in terms of challenge, standards, quality of faculty, and mentorship) at Chicago, but my experience (and DH’s at the same HYP college) was a lot happier and comparatively painless. I don’t think you have to suffer to learn.[/quote]
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