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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Years and years ago when I was there as a grad student, the undergrads were brilliant and quirky, and didn’t seem Uber wealthy or private school types.

I have the feeling that’s changed now. The College is much larger, and there seems to be a lot of emphasis on ED, which means wealth to me. I also hear of kids attending who just would NEVER have chosen Chicago back in the day- they are normal and smart but not brilliant, well rounded etc.

Does someone on here know OLD Chicago and NEW Chicago? Has it changed? Is it still a good, friendly, dorky place, life of the mind? It is it like lots of other schools now?

Thanks in advance. [/quote]

I went to Chicago back in the day  My DC (similar to me in many of the traits you mentioned) goes to Swarthmore which still has those types.[/quote]

Twenty plus years ago, my wife and I were both at the UC and it was blissful.  All the kids were geeky, social misfits, decidedly not wealthy, raw intellectuals who studied in the tunnels (remember the tunnels) because it was warm down there.  Today, our children attend grammer school and Mathnasium in Hyde Park, and all the undergrads look like LL Bean models.  The U of C really did itself a disservice by trying to appeal to a broader audience.  The jocks and sorority sisters will always pick Northwestern, so the U of C will just get HYP rejects and lose its culture.  It makes me sad that my children won't have someplace like the old U of C (or does someplace like this still exist outside the LSE)?[/quote]

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