<p>samcold: your response is so typical uchi apologist. you make it sound like uchi has the market cornered on amazing courses, academic diversity, superb research opportunities, and a motivated and inquisitive student body. well newsflash. brown, columbia, harvard, princeton, yale, cornell, penn, dartmouth, stanford, mit, caltech, amherst, williams, swarthmore, duke, they all have the same (except for the chicago part) and they also have high yields which means that they are rarely second choices the way uchi is. if you're on the uchi waitlist, then these places i just mentioned would be a pipe dream for you. so if you're going to come after me, please leave the tired cliches home and bring something original. i hate to get prickly, but i hate rebuttals to the topic at hand that only consist of myopic rah rahs about uchi that frankly, apply to most schools 10% acceptance rate or 75% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>bnb, if those are the schools uchi are a second choice to, thats still pretty damn good (though id put cornell and uchi roughly on the same level in terms of desirability) should we be ashamed somehow that our school isnt as selective as the ones listed above?</p>
<p>All the schools you mentioned have great research opportunites, but they don't come close to UChi, especially in physics. Fermilab alone puts UChi above all of the schools you mentioned besides MIT, Caltech, Stanford ,and Princeton. It's just sad how people don't appreciate UChi, it wins out in all the things that matter, but simply because it's not in the Ivy League people place it in a subordinate position. </p>
<p>Acceptance rate, yield, etc don't mean a thing, atleast to me they don't.</p>
<p>BnB: i think barnard gives out more money because it is definitely smaller than uchicago and has more money to give out. and yes, barnard and uchicago aren't the same, i realize this... but it's just my theory.</p>
<p>odyssy: there are a lot of schools that are second choice to the schools that i mentioned, it is only on this forum that it matters at all. samcold has it somewhat wrong when he/she claims how sad it is that people don't appreciate uchi. i find that the only people that don't appreciate uchi are the people admitted to uchi. tufts nor wash u can ever have more of a complex than uchi. any mention of the admit rate or uchi yield triggers a torrent of proclamations as to what great facilities the school has or how intellectual the school is or how many nobel laureates graduated from the place. all of which cannot be denied, but does not adequately address the best admits of the school, annually reject the school for better. the ones that are left are wondering why all their bretheren with better acceptances are not staying and the ones without better acceptances are left to beat the drums because that is the best they could do ...and i think that is still pretty good. too bad the uchi apologists deep down don't feel the same.</p>
<p>samcold: one fact, a lab does not make a university, if you don't realize that, maybe that is why your nose is pressed against the glass looking in.</p>
<p>tiff: what? i don't quite grasp the size and money concept. maybe samcold could explain it for me.</p>
<p>no one appreciates a psycho-analysis unless they ask for it.</p>
<p>pebbles: with the kinds of threads on this forum? believe me, you asked for it.</p>
<p>I doubt barnard has more money to give out...
And to whoever was talking about Chicago not being respected as the Ivy's. It isn't as well known to Joe Schmo or common man, but to those in academics and others who matter, the name is on par with the other schools. That's all that matters.
Sounds like you're a bit bitter that the name recognition doesn't apply. Think of how I feel then, I'm going to wesleyan and hell i get asked if i'm going to an all girls school (I wish!!!), so stop whining about it.
Chicago's an awesome school, so are the Ivy's and stanford caltech and all those other great schools, so stop this idiotic bs thread.
This thread is a powertrip and just showcases your insecurity which has no reason to be there in the first place, you've done well now go forth!</p>
<p>hehe, im just saying that there are 500ish girls who actually matriculate to barnard every year. uchicago matriculates about 1,200 every year. barnard is able to give a little more since its freshman class isnt quite as large... that's just how i see it.</p>
<p>I turned down Duke for Uchicago and I am on a scholarship. So financial aid played no part in my decision making..It was hard but in the end i chose UofC. Wonder what BnB can comment on this?? Coz it really proves to you that people just don't reject those 'good schools' u mentioned and go to chicago for the money...</p>
<p>to everyone: to stop BnB from spoiling our mood to attent uchicago we just have to stop replying his posts..he'll get bored of it...</p>
<p>daren, dont worry about it...u of c is an amazing school, with brilliant faculty and students, and plenty of prestige, if that's what you're looking for.</p>
<p>i was reading the thread "is Uchicago worth the money" and it really seems like the people there are saying 'go to duke coz they give more money and go to UofC if financial is not a problem' which is the total opposite of BnB's claims here....</p>
<p>so daren, you got a scholarship from uchi to attend? that's merit aid dude.</p>
<p>no i'm from malaysia and i'm fully sponsored by Malaysia's Central Bank. There proves 2 everyone again how BnB comes to a conclusion without really knowing and by just guessing...</p>
<p>So do they want you to work for them when you get out, cause that's awesome!</p>
<p>yeah...i am bonded to the bank for 8 years...so i do not have to worry bout looking for a job after 4 years...that is also one of the reason why 'prestige' was not one of my criteria when i was deciding coz i won't need the 'brand name' to compete for job...=)</p>
<p>Hehe, that's awesome. Have a blast and try to learn something :-p</p>
<p>UofC is definitely a good place to LEARN...notice i did not say THE BEST PLACE...</p>
<p>daren: good place...not the best place. sounds to me like you're already down on the place. how about that for a conclusion? so why didn't you go to the best place to learn? besides duke (and most people don't really consider duke on a par with the other schools i mentioned earlier, except in the area of mysogynist non consensual sex, but i put them in because of the low admit rate) what other choices did you have? so i guess by your last statement, you're just settling?</p>