Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Predominant on this list are schools where grads typically go directly to grad schools. Wouldn't that affect the median salary number and thus the ranking?
Service academies are highest yet most wouldn't disagree that as a whole top earnings later experiemce a relative drop. IMO this payscale ranking isn't relevant as to how schools stack up for prep students or whether they're worth it once taking advanced education into consideration.
Not sure of the methodology. I would guess your analysis applies to similarly ranking school as well. Many of them move on to grad schools as well. e.g., Cornell, JHU. Yet, they are all ranked in the same cluster. To test your hypothesis, simply run Payscale for HYPS schools. I am guessing their salary number are significantly higher than Chicago's.
Anonymous wrote:The kids attending UChicago now are a completely different cohort from UChicago kids of 15-20 years ago. Chicago's acceptance rate this year is 7.2% behind HYPSM which range from 4.5-6.5% but harder to get into than the other Ivys and competitors like Duke.
Anonymous wrote:Predominant on this list are schools where grads typically go directly to grad schools. Wouldn't that affect the median salary number and thus the ranking?
Service academies are highest yet most wouldn't disagree that as a whole top earnings later experiemce a relative drop. IMO this payscale ranking isn't relevant as to how schools stack up for prep students or whether they're worth it once taking advanced education into consideration.
Anonymous wrote:Seems there was a long thread on Chicago recently. Chicago isn't worth it.
https://www.payscale.com/research/US/School=University_of_Chicago/Salary
Anonymous wrote:STA has sent 5 plus a year to Chicago for the last few years. It’s definitely hot with those kids.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: One of the smartest kid in my DC's class at Sidwell chose to go there and loves it. I think being around other intellectuals is fun.
Asian studies program?
I'm sure you meant that as a mean stereotype. Here's the thing. Kids who like being around interesting people doing interesting things turn into the very adults that are socially chased here in the DMV. And they come in all skin colors, shapes, personalities and likes/dislikes. By the way for the snobs, not only did Gates kid turn down Stanford for UChicago but the president of Princeton's kid is there too as well as now being the top destination school for the northeast boarding schools. And please don't worry about them, it's far from joyless. That old reputation is what needs to die.
No, actually hotshot, sfs has an excellent China studies program and sends a couple kids each year to u of Chicago for Asian studies and Chinese degrees. And if you knew anything about it, you’d know exactly what kids partake in it at sfs and that most are not Asian.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: One of the smartest kid in my DC's class at Sidwell chose to go there and loves it. I think being around other intellectuals is fun.
Asian studies program?
I'm sure you meant that as a mean stereotype. Here's the thing. Kids who like being around interesting people doing interesting things turn into the very adults that are socially chased here in the DMV. And they come in all skin colors, shapes, personalities and likes/dislikes. By the way for the snobs, not only did Gates kid turn down Stanford for UChicago but the president of Princeton's kid is there too as well as now being the top destination school for the northeast boarding schools. And please don't worry about them, it's far from joyless. That old reputation is what needs to die.
Anonymous wrote:I keep reading Chicago has changed a lot in recent years, specifically with regard to targeting “normal” outgoing prep school students. Is it now a peer to HYPS to prep school families?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: One of the smartest kid in my DC's class at Sidwell chose to go there and loves it. I think being around other intellectuals is fun.
Asian studies program?
I'm sure you meant that as a mean stereotype. Here's the thing. Kids who like being around interesting people doing interesting things turn into the very adults that are socially chased here in the DMV. And they come in all skin colors, shapes, personalities and likes/dislikes. By the way for the snobs, not only did Gates kid turn down Stanford for UChicago but the president of Princeton's kid is there too as well as now being the top destination school for the northeast boarding schools. And please don't worry about them, it's far from joyless. That old reputation is what needs to die.
I get that Gates's kid is a pseudo celeb -- but how in the world do you know where Princeton's president's kid is going to college?