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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Swarthmore & U Chicago are pressure cooker. [/quote]

They’re not pressure cooker if you have a good brain.[/quote]

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UChicago certainly is.  The quarter system there can be brutal.  [/b]It’s a no time to think scenario — even/especially if you’re smart and intellectually ambitious.  Adm acknowledges this and is considering a switch to semesters.

Bottom line re this topic is that, if you have an intellectually-oriented kid, any good university with faculty doing interesting work in your kid’s area(s) of interest will be a stimulating environment for the undergrad years.  And if you don’t have an intellectual kid, odds are that no college (or curriculum) is going to make him/her a convert unless that kid has previously been deprived of opportunities for intellectual exploration.  If you have a kid that could go either way (e.g. intellectual or, say, partier or jock) then it’s really a fit question wrt which environment/cohort will bring out (or suppress) various aspects of th3 kid’s personality. [/quote]

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It’s not. But you do drop in to say that every time there’s a U Chicago post - nonstop.
 :roll: [/quote]

https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2019/3/18/university-convenes-calendar-committee-discuss-pos/

Dean Boyer “said his affinity [for the semester system] ‘has to do with my sense of the relentless nature of the quarter system...and that the semester system would afford our students a better educational learning environment.’”

YMMV.  But note my qualifier — it’s intellectually ambitious kids who are most likely to experience UChicago’s quarter system this way.  There’s a difference between approaching a class with the goal of getting a good grade vs the goal of exploring/understanding a topic or set of readings/questions.  OP’s inquiry suggested s/he might have a kid who was prone to the latter approach. [/quote]

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