Anonymous
Post 09/12/2024 07:17     Subject: What schools are most like UChicago 20 years ago?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna


This was probably intended as a joke or the poster who suggested CMC knows very little about CMC.

OP, you are seeking the opposite of CMC.

Reed College in Oregon.

Grinnell College in Iowa.

Bates College in Maine--maybe, but the academics are nowhere close to U Chicago, Reed, or Grinnell.

Wesleyan, Vassar, Oberlin if super liberal. Kenyon College in Ohio, but academics not anywhere near the level of U Chicago.

St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and in Annapolis, Maryland.

College of William & Mary in Virginia.

Brown due to super easy grading policies.


none of these are like the chicago of my day (class of 92)
Anonymous
Post 09/12/2024 06:41     Subject: Re:What schools are most like UChicago 20 years ago?
I am wondering if the OPs kid actually wants this, or if it’s something the OP thinks her kid should want.
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2024 23:24     Subject: What schools are most like UChicago 20 years ago?
consulting is a dead end street atm. good riddance
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2024 23:19     Subject: What schools are most like UChicago 20 years ago?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What schools are most similar to UChicago up until maybe 2010? Smart kids who were intellectual and not obsessed with consulting, tech, etc. Not super pre-professional and striver, but kids that still cared about school. Mix of middle and upper class kids, but not materialistic. I talk to alums and it’s apparently changed a lot, even in the last ten years. MIT? Brown?


Carleton


Agreed
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2024 23:06     Subject: What schools are most like UChicago 20 years ago?
Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna


This was probably intended as a joke or the poster who suggested CMC knows very little about CMC.

OP, you are seeking the opposite of CMC.

Reed College in Oregon.

Grinnell College in Iowa.

Bates College in Maine--maybe, but the academics are nowhere close to U Chicago, Reed, or Grinnell.

Wesleyan, Vassar, Oberlin if super liberal. Kenyon College in Ohio, but academics not anywhere near the level of U Chicago.

St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and in Annapolis, Maryland.

College of William & Mary in Virginia.

Brown due to super easy grading policies.
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2024 23:03     Subject: What schools are most like UChicago 20 years ago?
Anonymous wrote:Rice


+100
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2024 22:55     Subject: What schools are most like UChicago 20 years ago?
All top schools have pockets of consulting obsessed. So do many lower schools. It is just a trend. The smart intellectually curious types are still at all the top schools too, in large numbers
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2024 22:15     Subject: What schools are most like UChicago 20 years ago?
yes, my son wants the Bro, pre-professional, wall-street scene and people continually recommend Claremont Mckenna to him.

I would avoid C.M. if he wants old-school U Chicago vibes. I had a good friend there in the mid 90s and know what you're talking about.
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2024 21:53     Subject: What schools are most like UChicago 20 years ago?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna


Great school, but my friend with kid there now said it’s very preprofessional and full of future consultants /finance types


Yeah it’s known as a feeder to the street
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2024 21:47     Subject: What schools are most like UChicago 20 years ago?
Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna


Great school, but my friend with kid there now said it’s very preprofessional and full of future consultants /finance types
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2024 21:46     Subject: What schools are most like UChicago 20 years ago?
Rice
Tufts
SLACs like Bates Bowdoin
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2024 21:43     Subject: What schools are most like UChicago 20 years ago?
Rice
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2024 20:50     Subject: What schools are most like UChicago 20 years ago?
Claremont McKenna
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2024 20:46     Subject: What schools are most like UChicago 20 years ago?
Anonymous wrote:What schools are most similar to UChicago up until maybe 2010? Smart kids who were intellectual and not obsessed with consulting, tech, etc. Not super pre-professional and striver, but kids that still cared about school. Mix of middle and upper class kids, but not materialistic. I talk to alums and it’s apparently changed a lot, even in the last ten years. MIT? Brown?


Carleton
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2024 20:42     Subject: What schools are most like UChicago 20 years ago?
What schools are most similar to UChicago up until maybe 2010? Smart kids who were intellectual and not obsessed with consulting, tech, etc. Not super pre-professional and striver, but kids that still cared about school. Mix of middle and upper class kids, but not materialistic. I talk to alums and it’s apparently changed a lot, even in the last ten years. MIT? Brown?