OP is the UChicago hater reduced to posting fiction.

Not sure what would be strange about that. Different profiles.

Anonymous wrote:i think it's strange that you know that many kids who applied to every Ivy, and UChicago. Usually kids have a better sense of what they're looking for and put together a more cohesive list.

It's called "shotgunning". Top kids apply to the entire top 15.

i think it's strange that you know that many kids who applied to every Ivy, and UChicago. Usually kids have a better sense of what they're looking for and put together a more cohesive list.

Anonymous wrote:Chicago’s looking for brainiacs, Ivies are looking for ambitious extroverts who will pursue fame/fortune/power. There’s some overlap in those groups, but not much.

+1

Chicago’s looking for brainiacs, Ivies are looking for ambitious extroverts who will pursue fame/fortune/power. There’s some overlap in those groups, but not much.

Anonymous wrote:Happens every year at our top private. It's unreal, but UChicago is a safety for those applying to ivys.

I should have included Duke as well in my original post. Rejected from every Ivy and Duke, admitted to Chicago. Several kids! So bizarre.

OP - You know super intelligent and unhooked kids.

Back in the day, I was rejected from the Ivies I applied to, but not Chicago. Now I'm making a ton of money. Great experience, great education, no regrets!

Seems logical.

Why the surprise?

*what the Forbes ranking

You do know what the Forbes emphasizes? Salaries? Alumni in business? That's not the place UChicago is. It's brainy. Big PhD feeder. Academia doesn't pay as well as Wall Street. But the students who go aren't any less accomplished. Just because the Ivies and others are filled with money-grubbing status obsessed kids doesn't mean that they're a better school. US News has it right for identifying the best undergrad experience (faculty resources, class sizes, retention rate, etc)

Happens every year at our top private. It's unreal, but UChicago is a safety for those applying to ivys.

But why is that surprising? It's a matter of how many apply to the Ivys vs. U of Chicago. I would guess it's 4 to 1. So even if it's the same caliber applicant, the Ivys have more in their pool to reject.

Does Forbes list nail undergrad caliber and status better than US News?

#1 Harvard University
#2 Stanford University
#3 Yale University
#4 Princeton University
#5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
#6 California Institute of Technology
#7 University of Pennsylvania
#8 Duke University
#9 Brown University
#10 Pomona College
#11 Claremont McKenna College
#12 Dartmouth College
#13 Williams College
#14 Columbia University
#15 Cornell University
#16 University of Chicago