accepted but not going...post here!

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<p>I will not be attending, though I think I am the only person to have posted for reasons other than financial ones. I am going to junior college instead. Though come a year or two, I think I very well may be in Chicago.</p>

<p>University of Chicago is a great school, and I would have likely gone had the valley not called my name.</p>

<p>I hope all of you enjoy yourselves at whatever respective institutions you choose to attend. I trust that if you were considered (acceptance or waitlist) to Chicago, then you have much to offer. I am sorry that the university could not reciporicate in terms of finanical aid.</p>

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<p>Meugenio: I did a little thread-stalking (sorry!) and found out you got into Deep Springs. congrats! will you be going there?</p>

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<p>Somethingsilly, thanks for your thread-stalking: I first assumed that Meugenio was a troll, since it was hard to imagine someone choosing "junior college" over UChicago. Obviously, Deep Springs is not a typical junior college!</p>

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<p>How disappointing. I hope Libby Pearson reads these posts to get a feeling as to why so many students pass up UChicago.</p>

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<p>This thread brings my spirits up, thanks guys I appreciate it</p>

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Dumb question -- how do you find out the ranking of your major within a given college?</p>

<p>Someone said that UChicago was 5th in his major but State U was 25th. Where do you get that information?

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<p>I got my info from the NRC Rankings. These are graduate rankings but almost always correlate with undergraduate programs.</p>

<p>NRC</a> Rankings in Each of 41 Areas</p>

<p>The Gourman Report is inaccurate and oftentimes BS, IMHO. Also, any ranking that isn't published publicly makes me suspicious.</p>

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<p>those NRC rankings "summarizes the results of a survey performed in 1993"</p>

<p>eeek. can we do better than that??</p>

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<p>Graduate schools don't change much through 10 years. Undergrad really doesn't either. If you'll look at the faculty in department X in 1998 and compare it to the faculty in 2008, you won't see a significant change. (You can actually access such data through old Chicago course catalogs posted online, if you actually want to compare.)</p>

<p>So though the rankings may not be perfect, they should be reasonably accurate. US News also has its graduate rankings 2009 up, and they're pretty similar to the NRC rankings.</p>

<p><a href="http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>NRC rankings are supposed to be published every 10 years, and the new edition has been released to universities but not yet to the general public.</p>