<p>Black n Blue</p>
<p>Don't you have anything better to do than spout the same old cliches over and over again. </p>
<p>What's it to you what Chicago's admit rate is and why people choose to attend the school?</p>
<p>Get a life.</p>
<p>patsfan: what's the matter? can't handle the truth? well that's just too damn bad. deal with it.</p>
<p>Black n Blue</p>
<p>What makes you the expert on the student population at Chicago?</p>
<p>Why do you even care?</p>
<p>It's too bad that there are so many students that are going to go through life being a Harvard reject.</p>
<p>Assuming that what you say is true (unlikely), who cares?</p>
<p>patsfan: obviously....you care and the truth is almost too much for you to bear. i'm not an expert on the population at chicago, i just know what the yield indicates and what a large sampling of the posters on the uchi forum say. truth hurts.</p>
<p>Who the heck cares what the yield indicates? What is your connection, if any, to Chicago?</p>
<p>What don't you take your "know it all" attitude and spend some time on some of the other unfortunate colleges that have to settle for lesser students who didn't get in to a so-called 20% school.</p>
<p>You are so hung up on yield and acceptance rates, you are blind to anything else. I don't know why anyone who is a Chicago student, alum, Chicago parent etc. would even bother responding to you.</p>
<p>I know that I've wasted enough time on this issue and have better things to do.</p>
<p>Even if you are 100% correct, I couldn't care less. The only thing that matters is the quality of education at Chicago which is second to none.</p>
<p>gee patsfan, i thought i had settled on an unfortunate college that has to settle for lesser students who didn't get in to a so-called 20% school. that's why i am engaging in this excercise with you. i agree with you, i don't understand why anyone would respond to me, so i am compelled to ask, why patsfan, do you respond to me? i further agree with you that the only thing that matters is the quality of education at uchi, but the issue of yield, acceptance rates and the obvious selection of other schools by a large majority of the admits to uchi, always seems to elicit responses about the quality of the education at uchi. the yield and admissions statistics have no bearing upon the quality of the education that uchi offers. in fact, i have stated on many occasions that uchi is by and large considered a great school. it's just that any discussion on yield brings out the defensive in the uchi universe. even if my analysis is correct as to the makeup of the student body at uchi, it is clearly only my opinon....unless of course, deep down...you agree with me, which is why you are so upset. then it is our opinion.</p>
<p>BlacknBlue -</p>
<p>What value do you hope to gain from posting here? I sincerely hope that you enjoy Swathmore (if you were accepted) or wherever you end up going. I know I'm going to enjoy attending Chicago and there's nothing that can make me second guess that. Did you apply to Chicago? In any case this debate is fruitless - I'm sure you have better things to do with your time. So unless anyone has objections I officially declare this thread closed. I'm not a mod so I can't enforce this, but I'm sure you can see there's nothing else to be gained from batting this topic back and forth.</p>
<p>BnB, does your screen name refer to your face after you continue to argue tautologies (20 < 41 = less selective - brilliant) with your roomies? </p>
<p>btw, check out the latest issue of the Economist (focus on Chicago) to see how UChi is looked at by the global business community. Their opinion counts for 100x whatever USNWR ranking is. Interesting that NU is lumped together with other Big10 schools. :)</p>
<p>reading all the homilies to me only reinforce my thinking that uchi accepts students who don't know how to read. did i say anywhere that uchi's ranking in usnwr means anything? did i say anywhere that uchi provided anything but a great education? all i said was that the yield indicates that uchi is not the first choice of most of the accepted students and that accepted students who have an option of going to another school with an acceptance rate of less than 20%, yet choose to attend uchi anyway is usually given a large merit scholarship to draw them away from the other school. so why does everyone have their shorthairs in a knot over this. btw indyduke, the opinion of the majority of the uchi accepted students that choose the other schools count a lot more than whatever the economist says. their nays on attending uchi speak volumes. can you handle that?</p>
<p>BlacknBlue -</p>
<p>Listen buddy, obviously you're the one who doesn't know how to read otherwise you would have responded to my post. You know what? I think you're just bitter because you got rejected from Chicago with it's amazingly high admit rate. Obviously you're a loser who hangs out on forums for a school you're not attending, trying to flame people into responses. You are a troll plain and simple and since these forums aren't heavily moderated you've been able to slip by - congratulations. I am not going to respond to this thread anymore and I encourage everyone else not to either.</p>
<p>DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS THREAD OR ANY MORE REPONSES FROM THIS TROLL. LET THE THREAD DIE.</p>
<p>Have a great day.</p>
<p>i'm talking to myself (kinda funny isn't it?). i thought you didn't want me to respond so i didn't, but since it is obvious that you do, here goes. i am not hoping or wishing that you do not enjoy your experience at uchi. i hope you and everyone that attends has the most rewarding experience you can. if you can indeed read, then you will know that i did not start this thread. the poster wanted to know why anyone should attend a so called elite school that accepts close to half of it's applicants as opposed to amherst. all i was trying to do was explain why uchi has such a high admit rate, it's because uchi has such a low yield, which begs the question of why it has a low yield. i never said anything bad about the school (aside from the sayings that fun goes to uchi to die, but everyone has circulated that little ditty). the fact is that nothing i write can sway anyone not to attend uchi more than responses like yours and the others here. you are so intolerant of other peoples viewpoints and opinions that they automatically become "trolls" in your eyes and you immediately call for censorship so that viewpoints not lockstep with yours can't be heard. your other pal, indydukie is hoping for violence against myself (which i am not afraid of) but only goes to show that if you two clowns are representative of the type of people that will attend uchi, then maybe uchi is also the place dissent goes to die along with fun. lastly, i am having a great day, thank you for your concern.</p>
<p>btw and for your info, i didn't get rejected by uchi.</p>
<p>bottom line...uchicago will always be a top school due in large part to their graduate schools. Uchicago graduate schools are one of the best in the country; behind only the likes of harvard and berkeley.</p>
<p>im sure people have said this before, and i'm sorry, i just dont want to read 7 pages of reasoning. but im going to add my two cents anyway:
uchicago made it so that the people who apply to uchicago, actually WANT to go to uchicago. for the top students, they are more likely to add another "safety" to their list like northwestern or washu, who have very simple and easy applications to fill. you need to want to go to uchi. thats why less people apply, and a higher percentage get in.</p>
<p>I couldn't see why you WOULDN'T want to apply with the uncommon application.</p>
<p>It is this fun |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|</p>
<p>wow thats a long line of fun eric.
long like other things too
boing!</p>
<p>haha, I agree</p>
<p>esquared, u screwed up the page. now i have to use my left to right scroll. this has scarred me for life</p>
<p>oh gosh all of you blame everything on eric
:P
ohhhh eric</p>
<p>I'm willing to sacrifice my reputation for humor's sake.</p>
<p>icried: with all due respect, i don't think your reasoning is correct. uchi accepts so many, not because so few apply, but rather because so few choose to attend.</p>