Anonymous wrote:Middle class tend to be jealous of Wash U because it's full of smart rich kids -- and they are stingy with financial aid. 1 in 3 seniors there applies to medical school, it's really in a league of its own. It's a fantastic college. Sorry you desperate strivers don't "get it." Not everyone is obsessed with the Ivy League or a sportball school that all of your dullard couch potato in-laws recognize. Sending your smart rich kid to Wash U means they have a good chance of becoming a doctor or marrying one. That's what it's all about; selective breeding, avoiding the sort of unwashed striver families who spam this forum all week arguing which "T10" will make them feel less insecure about their sh*tshack or townhome.

Anonymous wrote:Middle class tend to be jealous of Wash U because it's full of smart rich kids -- and they are stingy with financial aid. 1 in 3 seniors there applies to medical school, it's really in a league of its own. It's a fantastic college. Sorry you desperate strivers don't "get it." Not everyone is obsessed with the Ivy League or a sportball school that all of your dullard couch potato in-laws recognize. Sending your smart rich kid to Wash U means they have a good chance of becoming a doctor or marrying one. That's what it's all about; selective breeding, avoiding the sort of unwashed striver families who spam this forum all week arguing which "T10" will make them feel less insecure about their sh*tshack or townhome.

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Now, I want them to match the amount of grants with top ivies. WashU was of no use when they offered less than half of what a top ivy offered in grants.

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago had a pretty bad relative return year, and their enowment is behind majority of "top colleges"

Columbia at $14B is smaller than WashU's lol

Won't change the fact that WashU is still considered by many as a safety school and full with hypsm/ivy league or even uchicago rejects.

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At least not a poor school like Chicago is

Would rather be a "poor school" than a desperately mediocre school.

+1. No one ever picks WashU over either Columbia/Chicago. WashU is at least 2 tiers below in prestige, academic rigor, and student outcomes. And UVA? lol.

WashU can use its $$ to start poaching all the star professors from Columbia and Chicago

WashU should use its $$ to start need-blind admits. Instead, WashU is complacent bc it is a home to the full-pay, rich ivy rejects.

Wash U, in fact, did just do this. No more need-aware admissions.

Anonymous wrote:Why on earth would an academic want to move from either Chicago or NYC to St. Louis? WashU boosters are really showing their desperate colors.

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Anonymous wrote:After seeing the WashU boosters on this thread, I admit that I had thrown a lot of mean words at UChicago and its boosters in the past. Now I have infinitely more respect for UChicago for their sanity.

The worst boosters on DCUM are Vandy, WashU, Tufts, and UVA boosters. They're a different breed of deluded.

Anonymous wrote:After seeing the WashU boosters on this thread, I admit that I had thrown a lot of mean words at UChicago and its boosters in the past. Now I have infinitely more respect for UChicago for their sanity.

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago had a pretty bad relative return year, and their enowment is behind majority of "top colleges"

Columbia at $14B is smaller than WashU's lol

Won't change the fact that WashU is still considered by many as a safety school and full with hypsm/ivy league or even uchicago rejects.

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At least not a poor school like Chicago is

Would rather be a "poor school" than a desperately mediocre school.

+1. No one ever picks WashU over either Columbia/Chicago. WashU is at least 2 tiers below in prestige, academic rigor, and student outcomes. And UVA? lol.

WashU can use its $$ to start poaching all the star professors from Columbia and Chicago

WashU should use its $$ to start need-blind admits. Instead, WashU is complacent bc it is a home to the full-pay, rich ivy rejects.

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago had a pretty bad relative return year, and their enowment is behind majority of "top colleges"

Columbia at $14B is smaller than WashU's lol

Won't change the fact that WashU is still considered by many as a safety school and full with hypsm/ivy league or even uchicago rejects.

+1

At least not a poor school like Chicago is

Would rather be a "poor school" than a desperately mediocre school.

+1. No one ever picks WashU over either Columbia/Chicago. WashU is at least 2 tiers below in prestige, academic rigor, and student outcomes. And UVA? lol.

WashU can use its $$ to start poaching all the star professors from Columbia and Chicago

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago had a pretty bad relative return year, and their enowment is behind majority of "top colleges"

Columbia at $14B is smaller than WashU's lol

Won't change the fact that WashU is still considered by many as a safety school and full with hypsm/ivy league or even uchicago rejects.

+1

At least not a poor school like Chicago is

Would rather be a "poor school" than a desperately mediocre school.

+1. No one ever picks WashU over either Columbia/Chicago. WashU is at least 2 tiers below in prestige, academic rigor, and student outcomes. And UVA? lol.

WashU can use its $$ to start poaching all the star professors from Columbia and Chicago

You sound as if WashU has 10-20 billion more $$ like Yale or Princeton do. The difference in endowment isn't even that significant. Quit being delusional.

Not delusional..this is the reality

The reality is that WashU, like PP said, is a solid safety school and filled with hypsm/ivy league rejects. It has been so, and will continue to be so in the future. You are delusional if you think it's competitors are Columbia/Chicago. It competes with T15-20 schools like Brown, Cornell, Rice or Notre Dame.

WashU will use its large endowment to outspend poorer competitors like Chicago/Columbia, just wait a few years

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago had a pretty bad relative return year, and their enowment is behind majority of "top colleges"

Columbia at $14B is smaller than WashU's lol

Won't change the fact that WashU is still considered by many as a safety school and full with hypsm/ivy league or even uchicago rejects.

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At least not a poor school like Chicago is

Would rather be a "poor school" than a desperately mediocre school.

+1. No one ever picks WashU over either Columbia/Chicago. WashU is at least 2 tiers below in prestige, academic rigor, and student outcomes. And UVA? lol.

WashU can use its $$ to start poaching all the star professors from Columbia and Chicago

You sound as if WashU has 10-20 billion more $$ like Yale or Princeton do. The difference in endowment isn't even that significant. Quit being delusional.

Not delusional..this is the reality

The reality is that WashU, like PP said, is a solid safety school and filled with hypsm/ivy league rejects. It has been so, and will continue to be so in the future. You are delusional if you think it's competitors are Columbia/Chicago. It competes with T15-20 schools like Brown, Cornell, Rice or Notre Dame.

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago boosters are so insecure that one 8-page long thread simply calling out its boosterism disappeared all of a sudden from DCUM... I wonder why?

UChicago is definitely tops at having the most insecure alums on DCUM, followed closely by Northwestern, JHU, and Duke, based on recent posts I've seen on this forum.

I've not met any insecure Ivy or stanford/mit alums or parents on this forum, which by itself speaks volumes.

Columbia alums are the most insecure

Columbia and UChicago are tied.

Agree Columbia and Chicago alums are the most insecure..especially w their paltry endowments

Here comes the hypsm prestige defense squad with their half-baked and incoherent logic...

Columbia and Chicago's endowments are now smaller than WashU and UVA's fwiw

Columbia owns 14.88M total square feet across 232 properties in Manhattan, NY. Its Manhattansville campus expansion, set to be completed in 2030, will cost staggering $7B. That’s Columbia’s cost of 15 new buildings and an acre of public green space. Imagine the market value of these 15 new buildings alone.

There are other universities taking on similarly large initiatives