<p>...Agreed.</p>
<p>"I dunno why so many people at Chicago have this inferiority complex when it comes to Ivy league schools."</p>
<p>ur acceptance rate is near double all of them as well, not to take away from ur argument.....</p>
<p>bbail87: i don't know where you get your info, but yale's acceptace rate is less than 10%. uchi wishes their acceptance rate was double that. try four times.</p>
<p>uchicago's aceptance rate is like, 33%
and trust me, if uchicago got as many applicants as harvard/yale/etc, their acceptance rate would be much lower, too.</p>
<p>everyone talks about how much acceptances went down or whatever but in reality, more people are applying to certain colleges but colleges are accepting the same amount of people... but since they're rejecting a lot more, their percentages go down.</p>
<p>of course there is the harvard/yale/etc name/"prestige"/whatever you want to call it. not everybody is going to get great yields. look at grinnell - it has a yield of about 10% and it accepts 40% of their applicants... and grinnell is a pretty good school.</p>
<p>Chicago was my first choice, beyond any ivy.</p>
<p>Not saying that the ivies are inferior to Chicago (or that Chicago is inferior to an ivy) I think that it is somewhat significant when remarkable students choose to apply or attend elsewhere, at least in my region.</p>
<p>And Chicago is an "ivy alternative" the way marijuana is an alternative to cigarettes--</p>
<p>tiffany: grinnell is a pretty good school but it's not in the rarified air as an ivy. of course not every school is going to have a great yield, that's why those schools are second, third or fourth choice schools. yield has nothing to do with the quality of the school. grinnell probably has such a low yield because it is in the middle of a cow patch. </p>
<p>amykins: i am glad that uchi was your first choice, but the question that has to be asked is "did you get into an ivy and turned it down for uchi?" i submit that the answer as revealed by yield statistics is no for the bulk of the populace attending uchi. yet, that has no impact on inferiority or superiority of an ivy or uchi.</p>
<p>BlacknBlue: let me clarify. I have met and spoken with kids who have turned down princeton and yale for u of chi. it's not unheard of.</p>
<p>i second deciding's post. add cornell to the batch.</p>
<p>deciding and cookie: of course there are. i would venture to guess that they got a considerable amount of merit aid from uchi as well, in fact that may have been the determinative factor in uchi over the other schools. even if it weren't, it would not be out of the question for people to choose uchi over an ivy with all things being equal, it's just that it doesn't happen all that often. in fact, there are postings on another thread that had kids choosing boston u or w & m over uchi, which is not something that i would do, but oftentimes circumstances dictate choices. again, i didn't start this thread by whining about having to attend uchi because they got rejected by the ivy of their choice.</p>
<p>agreed.....</p>
<p>(finally)</p>
<p>add columbia & brown to the list.</p>
<p>and yes, AGREED times 4263746827423.</p>
<p>brown and columbia? very impressive. did you happen to get any merit aid from uchi? i know that brown aid is pitiful. also, we are discussing columbia and not barnard, right?</p>
<p>Yeah, I know someone who turned down Brown to attend UChicago next year. He said he liked Brown too; they actually paid for his ticket to fly him out for a visit.</p>
<p>did that friend get merit aid from uchi?</p>
<p>i got some merit aid- how does that work? Does it go ontop of your existing finaid package?</p>
<p>BnB: no, i didn't apply to columbia or brown... i know two people who have turned down columbia and brown, respectively, to attend uchicago. </p>
<p>but i did apply to barnard-columbia and i got in.. and they actually gave me more money, but i decided to go to uchicago.</p>
<p>tiff: of course barnard would give you more money, they're on a different level than uchi, just like uchi is on a different level than stanford and mit and the like. here's how it goes: barnard gives you money to get you away from uchi, uchi and wash u give money to get them to choose uchi over columbia and brown. check with your friends. that's how the food chain works.</p>
<p>You seem to be one of those kids that are very caught up prestige and the U.S. New college rankings. People go to UChi because it's simply a good fit for them. This whole food chain idea is pure stupidity, just look at all of the things UChi has: Chicago, amazing courses, academically diversity, superb research opportunites, all topped off with a motivated and inquistitive student body. To me it just doesn't seem right to compare UChi to other schools, especially when you start comparing UChi with its polar oppositte(Brown). You sound like one of those disgruntled rejectees; get over it, I know I have. If you don't share my views it OK, but it no way gives you the permission to outwardly attack a school and its student body.</p>
<p>I would give anything to get off the waitlist and attend UChi this fall.</p>
<p>i like chicago</p>
<p>Sam, he's not bsing. It's completely true.
One of the reasons that WUSTL is on everyone's lips is because they're giving tremendous amounts of scholarship money to attract better students. You might love chicago, as do a lot of people, but the hierarchy/food chain idea is accurate.</p>
<p>If it wasn't, I wouldn't be here fighting with myself to figure out whether i want to go to the school i love or the school that's giving me a much better deal...</p>