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Anonymous wrote:My son is very happy at U Chicago.
I was very worried that it is very intense school with not much fun.
It is definitely hard school academically but so much to do and explore at school and in Chicago.

I would have been worried as well considering it's where fun goes to die.

No, that dubious distinction goes to Johns Hopkins. Worst, most-unhappy student life.

Well maybe you should google "Where fun goes to die" and you'll learn something.

Maybe you should both google it - this was a well worn topic in the nineties and a compromise was reached.

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Anonymous wrote:Very unhappy at Duke. The culture just isn’t great but we think it’s worth it to just stick it out for another two years at this point.

Please tell me more. My child is in love with Duke and wants to attend. What specifically, does your child not like about the culture of Duke?

to a large extent Duke has become a victim of its own success. When I attended in the late 80s the basketball success was in early stage and student body imo was a pretty laid back group of really smart and nice kids, and few were overtly spoiled or obnoxious. My DC attends now, and let’s just say the profile has changed - although they are still really smart. Will leave it at that

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Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest

Is WF top 30? Really? I haven’t looked at USNWR in a long time!

LOL. It is absolutely not. One of the posters above is pulling your leg

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

Tied at 29 with Florida and UNC

NP. I literally had no idea WF was ranked 29. Now I totally get why the middle of the road kids at our private ED rolling to Wake in September. It is the easiest top 30 to get into, right?

Wake has always been in the T30

since being reclassified as a National University in the mid-90s while I was a student there, yes

As I noted before, it was ranked #1 in the South Region when I applied there BUT was profiled in a book on the top 50 schools in the country, as well

It has increased its student body size since I was there and it always felt more like a liberal arts school than a research university to me. My other choices were mostly liberal arts schools (Bucknell and F&M were 2 of them), so that was what I was aiming for. You couldn't declare a major until you were a junior and there was a strong core curriculum - most didn't just jump right into a major like at some of the larger institutions.

It is a strong school with great networking in many majors. I know my fellow alum's senior daughter already has a job lined up with a top consulting firm after doing a summer internship. And it apparently still retains the nickname "Work Forest" although it is more a work hard/play hard place. The campus is lovely and I had a wonderful 4 years. I don't think it is worth $80k/year, though.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest

Is WF top 30? Really? I haven’t looked at USNWR in a long time!

LOL. It is absolutely not. One of the posters above is pulling your leg

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

Tied at 29 with Florida and UNC

NP. I literally had no idea WF was ranked 29. Now I totally get why the middle of the road kids at our private ED rolling to Wake in September. It is the easiest top 30 to get into, right?

Wake has always been in the T30

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Anonymous wrote:Yale

Yale is no longer in the top 30.

LOL ok

Yale and Harvard are not on the USNWR rankings at all.

You cannot claim they are in the top 30, top 50, or anywhere. They are no longer ranked.

That's law school friend. Harvard/Yale tied for #3
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges

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Anonymous wrote:Yale

Yale is no longer in the top 30.

LOL ok

Yale and Harvard are not on the USNWR rankings at all.

You cannot claim they are in the top 30, top 50, or anywhere. They are no longer ranked.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest

Is WF top 30? Really? I haven’t looked at USNWR in a long time!

LOL. It is absolutely not. One of the posters above is pulling your leg

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

Tied at 29 with Florida and UNC

NP. I literally had no idea WF was ranked 29. Now I totally get why the middle of the road kids at our private ED rolling to Wake in September. It is the easiest top 30 to get into, right?

Yup. You can say I go to a T30.
Florida UNC UVA are also relatively easy for in-state
These are all good options if you can't break into T25.



(UVA is #25 this year), but not necessarily better than some schools outside of 30.

So T25 is really the first cut

UVA is not “relatively easy to get into”. From NOVA you need a 4.53 gpa, a 34 ACT or 1520 SAT, be in the top 5 percent if your high school class, take the most rigorous course load your high school offers and have extraordinary ECs

You do not need a 4.53 GPA. That is not true. UVA does not have a required minimum GPA:

https://admission.virginia.edu/node/156

We don't have a minimum GPA. We don't have a minimum SAT score.

As strange as these answers sound, they're both true. A cumulative GPA only reveals so much; it says little about the difficulty of a student's course load, or whether a student's grades have improved over time, or the level of grade inflation (or deflation) in a student's school. If we established a firm minimum GPA, a point below which no applicant would have any chance of being admitted, we'd miss a fair number of students who might make UVA a better, stronger place.“


Minorities have an easy time getting into UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale

Yale is no longer in the top 30.

LOL ok

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Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest

Is WF top 30? Really? I haven’t looked at USNWR in a long time!

LOL. It is absolutely not. One of the posters above is pulling your leg

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

Tied at 29 with Florida and UNC

NP. I literally had no idea WF was ranked 29. Now I totally get why the middle of the road kids at our private ED rolling to Wake in September. It is the easiest top 30 to get into, right?

Yup. You can say I go to a T30.
Florida UNC UVA are also relatively easy for in-state
These are all good options if you can't break into T25.



(UVA is #25 this year), but not necessarily better than some schools outside of 30.

So T25 is really the first cut

UVA is not “relatively easy to get into”. From NOVA you need a 4.53 gpa, a 34 ACT or 1520 SAT, be in the top 5 percent if your high school class, take the most rigorous course load your high school offers and have extraordinary ECs

Hence I said 'relatively easy' as a T30 or T25 school.
It's acceptance rate is like 20%?  
Half of my kid's friends got in, including my kid from a NOVA public.
 
There lower ranked schools that are harder to get with and higher stats such as Tufts, BU, BC, Northeastern, maybe Georgia Tech

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Anonymous wrote:Oberlin. I have a senior there. She has loved it.

How is it socially if you're not at the hyper-progressive end of the political spectrum? My kid leans Dem but is very moderate and probably not the active protester type.

My DD would describe herself the same way, and socially she has found her people without a problem.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest

Is WF top 30? Really? I haven’t looked at USNWR in a long time!

LOL. It is absolutely not. One of the posters above is pulling your leg

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

Tied at 29 with Florida and UNC

NP. I literally had no idea WF was ranked 29. Now I totally get why the middle of the road kids at our private ED rolling to Wake in September. It is the easiest top 30 to get into, right?

Yup. You can say I go to a T30.
Florida UNC UVA are also relatively easy for in-state
These are all good options if you can't break into T25.



(UVA is #25 this year), but not necessarily better than some schools outside of 30.

So T25 is really the first cut

UVA is not “relatively easy to get into”. From NOVA you need a 4.53 gpa, a 34 ACT or 1520 SAT, be in the top 5 percent if your high school class, take the most rigorous course load your high school offers and have extraordinary ECs

Have all the fun and happy with easy majors.

However no pain, no gain.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is very happy at U Chicago.
I was very worried that it is very intense school with not much fun.
It is definitely hard school academically but so much to do and explore at school and in Chicago.

I would have been worried as well considering it's where fun goes to die.

No, that dubious distinction goes to Johns Hopkins. Worst, most-unhappy student life.

Well maybe you should google "Where fun goes to die" and you'll learn something.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is very happy at U Chicago.
I was very worried that it is very intense school with not much fun.
It is definitely hard school academically but so much to do and explore at school and in Chicago.

I would have been worried as well considering it's where fun goes to die.

No, that dubious distinction goes to Johns Hopkins. Worst, most-unhappy student life.

Anonymous wrote:Yale

Yale is no longer in the top 30.