Anonymous
Post 05/02/2018 22:17     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Chicago has no brand name appeal outside of think tanks and academia. All the money-hungry aspirants end up disappointed in the end, as they watch gregarious and outgoing state school colleagues getting promoted over them. God bless whoever they marry for putting up with the perpetual “I’m so much smarter than him/her!” But at least your kid got to see David Axelrod interview the swamp du jour that circle through campus selling books they didn’t write.


No dog in this fight, but, wow, you are bitter. I'm gonna pray for you.
Overall, the whole Duke v. Chicago argument on this thread is one of the weirdest arguments I've ever seen on DCUM.


How sick are the haters going to be when Chicago is ranked No. 1 in this summer's US News? It's bound to happen.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2018 22:10     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
In re: Duke: Duke kids are more attractive, have more fun, higher name rec and brand, and are just as successful, with a far more direct and robust pipeline to six-figure Wall Street gigs.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2018 21:23     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Chicago has no brand name appeal outside of think tanks and academia. All the money-hungry aspirants end up disappointed in the end, as they watch gregarious and outgoing state school colleagues getting promoted over them. God bless whoever they marry for putting up with the perpetual “I’m so much smarter than him/her!” But at least your kid got to see David Axelrod interview the swamp du jour that circle through campus selling books they didn’t write.


No dog in this fight, but, wow, you are bitter. I'm gonna pray for you.
Overall, the whole Duke v. Chicago argument on this thread is one of the weirdest arguments I've ever seen on DCUM.



No dog in the fight, but, it's hilarious. It's Chicago's peeps hilarious reaction that's fueling certain people's joy in this nonsense.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2018 21:15     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Anonymous wrote:Chicago has no brand name appeal outside of think tanks and academia. All the money-hungry aspirants end up disappointed in the end, as they watch gregarious and outgoing state school colleagues getting promoted over them. God bless whoever they marry for putting up with the perpetual “I’m so much smarter than him/her!” But at least your kid got to see David Axelrod interview the swamp du jour that circle through campus selling books they didn’t write.


No dog in this fight, but, wow, you are bitter. I'm gonna pray for you.
Overall, the whole Duke v. Chicago argument on this thread is one of the weirdest arguments I've ever seen on DCUM.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2018 19:32     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Chicago has no brand name appeal outside of think tanks and academia. All the money-hungry aspirants end up disappointed in the end, as they watch gregarious and outgoing state school colleagues getting promoted over them. God bless whoever they marry for putting up with the perpetual “I’m so much smarter than him/her!” But at least your kid got to see David Axelrod interview the swamp du jour that circle through campus selling books they didn’t write.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2018 19:21     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Chicago is where overachiever prep school kids go when they get rejected from every Ivy, Stanford, Notre Dame and Duke. It's a peer to Northwestern, with a less attractive student body. Rank it where it belongs in the 12-15 range and it'd have none of this tiger mom fueled frenzy. It's WashU in a major city.

+1 spot on.
No matter how much they strive, they are not in the same league as HYPS. Nothing to be ashamed of, just reality. Kinda sad that these Chicago fans are so insecure about this.


Kind of like Barnard people who think they are Columbia.


Good Lord. I am thankful every day that Chicago is not HYPS. There is a reason Chicago gets top grades from the heterodox academy and FIRE, because it is one of the few schools left where the administration has a spine, whereas, today HYPS are essentially run by spineless administrators who don't have the guts to stand up to the asinine demands placed on them by a tiny minority of the students. From the shrieking girl at Yale, to the ban on free association at Harvard, to students taking over the Princeton President's office and the administration issuing "consent guidelines for floor dances" and Stanford initially balking at allowing a US flag on a T-shirt, these schools have gone totally crazy.

Leave us one school where the inmates are not running the asylum. You can have the others. I would be SO DISAPPOINTED if Chicago became like HYPS.


I still cringe when I think of the lynching Larry Somers received at Harvard for stating something that is not even controversial in Social Science circles about why there are fewer women in STEM.

Anonymous
Post 05/02/2018 19:15     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Chicago is where overachiever prep school kids go when they get rejected from every Ivy, Stanford, Notre Dame and Duke. It's a peer to Northwestern, with a less attractive student body. Rank it where it belongs in the 12-15 range and it'd have none of this tiger mom fueled frenzy. It's WashU in a major city.

+1 spot on.
No matter how much they strive, they are not in the same league as HYPS. Nothing to be ashamed of, just reality. Kinda sad that these Chicago fans are so insecure about this.


Kind of like Barnard people who think they are Columbia.


Good Lord. I am thankful every day that Chicago is not HYPS. There is a reason Chicago gets top grades from the heterodox academy and FIRE, because it is one of the few schools left where the administration has a spine, whereas, today HYPS are essentially run by spineless administrators who don't have the guts to stand up to the asinine demands placed on them by a tiny minority of the students. From the shrieking girl at Yale, to the ban on free association at Harvard, to students taking over the Princeton President's office and the administration issuing "consent guidelines for floor dances" and Stanford initially balking at allowing a US flag on a T-shirt, these schools have gone totally crazy.

Leave us one school where the inmates are not running the asylum. You can have the others. I would be SO DISAPPOINTED if Chicago became like HYPS.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2018 18:59     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Yeah, may be it was the anti-Chicago trolls that started these threads. But it's the Chicago idiots' hysterical reaction that's fueling joy to these people. It's really hilarious. They seem to truly believe in their stuff.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2018 17:44     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Nah, these days, UChicago is where very smart, well-educated adults send their very smart kids to be well educated. I get why that makes it a fringe brand and I’m fine with that.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2018 17:32     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Chicago is where overachiever prep school kids go when they get rejected from every Ivy, Stanford, Notre Dame and Duke. It's a peer to Northwestern, with a less attractive student body. Rank it where it belongs in the 12-15 range and it'd have none of this tiger mom fueled frenzy. It's WashU in a major city.

+1 spot on.
No matter how much they strive, they are not in the same league as HYPS. Nothing to be ashamed of, just reality. Kinda sad that these Chicago fans are so insecure about this.


Kind of like Barnard people who think they are Columbia.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2018 17:09     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Anonymous wrote:Chicago is where overachiever prep school kids go when they get rejected from every Ivy, Stanford, Notre Dame and Duke. It's a peer to Northwestern, with a less attractive student body. Rank it where it belongs in the 12-15 range and it'd have none of this tiger mom fueled frenzy. It's WashU in a major city.

+1 spot on.
No matter how much they strive, they are not in the same league as HYPS. Nothing to be ashamed of, just reality. Kinda sad that these Chicago fans are so insecure about this.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2018 16:24     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Chicago is where overachiever prep school kids go when they get rejected from every Ivy, Stanford, Notre Dame and Duke. It's a peer to Northwestern, with a less attractive student body. Rank it where it belongs in the 12-15 range and it'd have none of this tiger mom fueled frenzy. It's WashU in a major city.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2018 13:10     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Cornell has the gap year thing too. I think they offer hundreds the deal to go to college freshman year somewhere else and transfer in.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2018 12:37     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s like Harvard’s Z list. And probably more about money than about yield.


Z list is by invitation only to luminaries and the affluent. Only about 20 offers per year at Harvard. Chicago's is a wholesale USNews ranking game. Check college comfidential on Chicago waitlist with gap year.

And I don't see harvard's garbage thread on here. Chivago's is like every other week started probably by an army of unemployed alums.


You routinely assert that Chicago makes significantly more gap year offers than Harvard, yet are never able to substantiate that claim. According to this article, this a fairly common admissions practice, but usually not acknowledged or publicized. At Harvard, it disproportionately (but not exclusively) helps legacies (not luminaries and not kids with substandard credentials or kids who are immature). Not clear who benefits or how it is used at other schools, though I suspect that full pay students are always over-represented. In situations where yield or available beds aren’t predictable, it’s a potentially useful tool.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/4/3/the-legend-of-the-z-list/
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2018 12:13     Subject: Is UChicago now a target for big5 kids? Up there with HYPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does Chicago have ED3 and ED4 yet?


They got this weird-ass waitlist mandating a gap year that locks people into next school year's USNews yield ranking. This is how they keep their yield high even with full-pay seats.


Chicago - The Northeastern of the Midwest.