Anonymous wrote:In the end, what makes a school great is the amount of endowments it has. If you take a look at various rankings, the schools having the highest endowments are always ranked high. There is a reason HYPMS are always T5. And there is a reason for SWAP.

Once a school has financial issues, inevitably it will decline in reputation, quality, and more importantly student experience. Best wishes to Chicago.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought U Chicago was being weird/looking desperate with the constant mailings, but it’s a great school. It was a great school and maybe even a better school when it’s acceptance rate was over 50% and the kids who went there were a self-selected group of serious kids who wanted its intense academic/intellectual atmosphere.

When was the acceptance rate ever this high? I don't believe it.

Of course it was. Nowadays people naturally understand that what makes a school great is how many applicants they turn away, but in the olden days people had this quaint old-fashioned notion that what made a school great was the quality of the students it attracted and the quality of the education they received while there.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought U Chicago was being weird/looking desperate with the constant mailings, but it’s a great school. It was a great school and maybe even a better school when it’s acceptance rate was over 50% and the kids who went there were a self-selected group of serious kids who wanted its intense academic/intellectual atmosphere.

My kid got more mailings and emails from SO many others schools, versus UChicago, including Hamilton (ridiculous), Bucknell (ridiculous), Yale (bordering ridiculous), to name a very small few offenders. I don't know why you all give UChicago a hard time. Nobody else with a high stats kid is inundated by mailings/email non-stop? I find that extremely hard to believe.