Anonymous
Post 09/01/2018 16:19     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
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?


This is actually true. But unless your kid is a unicorn gorgeous girl they want to sleep with, they generally only hang out amongst themselves. And most of them have bfs/gfs at other colleges and act like they're sort of above the social scene at Chicago.

—according to my nephew who just completed a math degree there
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2018 20:57     Subject: Re:Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Dartmouth!?! You must be drinking
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2018 15:34     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Anonymous wrote:
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?


Are you kidding me?


Depends on what they think makes an elite school elite. If you’re wealth-obsessed and focused on the US, probably not. If you’re education- and/or research-oriented, then yes, especially if your kid is looking/up for an academically-challenging college experience. “Prep schools” have both kinds of families/students.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2018 14:45     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
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?


Are you kidding me?
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2018 16:50     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:UofC is going to fall in the next US News. It'll be P, H, MIT, Y, Penn will move into 5th. U of C's endowment is way too low for top 5.


Agree with this!


You forgot Stanford. Honestly, Stanford and MIT should be 1a and 1b.

1. Stanford, MIT
3. Harvard
4: Princeton
5. Yale
6. Penn

Chicago should be 11-14 range, below Duke and Dartmouth, but a place or two higher than Northwestern.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2018 11:18     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:UofC is going to fall in the next US News. It'll be P, H, MIT, Y, Penn will move into 5th. U of C's endowment is way too low for top 5.


Agree with this!


Then that makes two insane people on this thread. What sort of person invests that much energy into college rankings? Positively mental.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2018 11:01     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Anonymous wrote:UofC is going to fall in the next US News. It'll be P, H, MIT, Y, Penn will move into 5th. U of C's endowment is way too low for top 5.


Agree with this!
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2018 20:57     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Zzzzzzz list. This gets tiresome.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2018 20:24     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Anonymous wrote:If you check CC on waitlists, you can see how Chicago is using the class of 2022 waitlist to fill the class of 2023. (https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/2075294-2018-wait-list-decisions-please-add-for-everyones-benefit-p5.html ) Chicago already has a 20-months running start to filling the class of 2023. These waitlists come with mandated gap year, so Chicago is pretty much guaranteed a relatively high USNews yield rate for the class of 2023. Also notable is almost no Ivy school appears to have gone to waitlist as of yet. Those who accepted the Chicago waitlist with a mandated gap year have very little overlap with HYPS. It's highly unlikely those who were accepted to HYPS would take the Chicago waitlist with a mandated gap year.



+1.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2018 12:39     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
If you check CC on waitlists, you can see how Chicago is using the class of 2022 waitlist to fill the class of 2023. (https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/2075294-2018-wait-list-decisions-please-add-for-everyones-benefit-p5.html ) Chicago already has a 20-months running start to filling the class of 2023. These waitlists come with mandated gap year, so Chicago is pretty much guaranteed a relatively high USNews yield rate for the class of 2023. Also notable is almost no Ivy school appears to have gone to waitlist as of yet. Those who accepted the Chicago waitlist with a mandated gap year have very little overlap with HYPS. It's highly unlikely those who were accepted to HYPS would take the Chicago waitlist with a mandated gap year.
Anonymous
Post 05/09/2018 19:38     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
UofC is going to fall in the next US News. It'll be P, H, MIT, Y, Penn will move into 5th. U of C's endowment is way too low for top 5.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2018 21:17     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
If these damn fools would just lighten up, they would be taken seriously. It's their attitude they are the kings that's hilarious.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2018 20:34     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

Yeah, the anti-UChicago trolling has gotten extreme if you guys are trying to tell us Charlottlesville is a comparable city to Chicago. Over 60 million people come to Chicago for vacation per year, contributing nearly $14 billion to the city. Why? Because Chicago has a tremendous amount to offer.

...


I think what's really driving the anti-UChicago trolling is that people there have been organizing big protests since January, when a professor there invited Steve Bannon to speak on campus. Either Bannon or one of his fans is probably planting a lot of these threads.

Maybe regular people then chime in, but the seeds come from the Bannonites.


Just between me and you, I think Chicago is superior. It might even be the center of the universe. It's one thing for Chicago to be the center of the known universe; however, it's downright hilarious to readers who don't give a hoot about who is the center of the universe. It's just absolute joy watching these hysterical fools insisting that they be recognized as such. Absolute joy.


I bet you delight in peeing in the swimming pool.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2018 20:27     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

Yeah, the anti-UChicago trolling has gotten extreme if you guys are trying to tell us Charlottlesville is a comparable city to Chicago. Over 60 million people come to Chicago for vacation per year, contributing nearly $14 billion to the city. Why? Because Chicago has a tremendous amount to offer.

...


I think what's really driving the anti-UChicago trolling is that people there have been organizing big protests since January, when a professor there invited Steve Bannon to speak on campus. Either Bannon or one of his fans is probably planting a lot of these threads.

Maybe regular people then chime in, but the seeds come from the Bannonites.


Just between me and you, I think Chicago is superior. It might even be the center of the universe. It's one thing for Chicago to be the center of the known universe; however, it's downright hilarious to readers who don't give a hoot about who is the center of the universe. It's just absolute joy watching these hysterical fools insisting that they be recognized as such. Absolute joy.
Anonymous
Post 05/08/2018 20:05     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Anonymous wrote:

Yeah, the anti-UChicago trolling has gotten extreme if you guys are trying to tell us Charlottlesville is a comparable city to Chicago. Over 60 million people come to Chicago for vacation per year, contributing nearly $14 billion to the city. Why? Because Chicago has a tremendous amount to offer.

...


I think what's really driving the anti-UChicago trolling is that people there have been organizing big protests since January, when a professor there invited Steve Bannon to speak on campus. Either Bannon or one of his fans is probably planting a lot of these threads.

Maybe regular people then chime in, but the seeds come from the Bannonites.