<p>Amherst and Williams are often second choices for students who apply to Harvard, Yale et all. That doesn't underscore them as institutions though, as they're still brilliant.</p>
<p>I've said this before and I'll say it again.</p>
<p>UChicago is a brilliant school, one that a lot of the time cannot be compared to other University's because of it's theoretical focus. If you want to compare it to a school it should be to swartmore.
But why the heck can't you guys stop second guessing yourself, if you picked Chicago only because you wanted to say you turned down such and such school (enter duke, cornell, whatever), that's no reason to make a decision like that.
Chicago is awesome, don't put other schools down because it's a better fit for you. That's completely uncalled for and shows how rude you are.</p>
<p>Without putting words into daren's mouth, I would guess that he was saying the University of Chicago is a good place to learn, which it is. There IS no best place to learn. It changes for each person. The best one can do is to find the best learning environment for oneself. This thread needs to stop NOW. These sorts of threads (you'll find them on most of the CC forums) are just a comfort blanket to those worried about their choice. BlacknBlue, I'm currently at a top 5 university, and I'm considering transferring to the University of Chicago. To each their own.</p>
You do realize that there are two very different ways to complete that word, don't you? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>However, I agree with you. Considering that Chicago caters to such a different crowd of students, they're absolutely <em>nuts</em> not to have ED.</p>
<p>BnB have you noticed that i've been the only one on here who agrees with most of what you have to say?
I don't understand what you're trying to prove anymore.
A lot of students who love UChicago tend to go somewhere else because they're terrified of how hard the school is. After getting in and loving it, they get told that going there is death and they'll do nothing but work and die there, this is one of the reasons they have a low yield rate, and frankly i don't think they'd want it any other way. They get a class willing to work it's tail off. A lot of people also visit after they get in and decide they don't want to go to a school in the city, big deal.
Fact is they have a great class each year and their grads are successful, end of story. Chicago's a good school so are many others. In the world of the elite schools, Chicago is one of them but it's name isn't as prestigious as those from HYPSD, ask grad school profs where they want/like having students from and they'll name lacs and chicago. How's that?
The school doesn't really cater to pre-professional studies, it's like being a medieval studies major. What will you do with your life after chicago? Parents have a role in it too.
Criminally liable hahahahaha, if you want that, then you should arrest kids going to harvard for the networking and not the education. That was a lame thing to say on your part.
I'm not trying to make excuses for Chicago (i'm not associated to it in anyway...), but I can't stand how Chicago kids are bashing the other elite schools for being lame and how you're bashing chicago for being lame. That's not the purpose of higher education and it's not the purpose of CC, how about you guys go out to a bar and get into a barfight over which school is more prestigious and better, that'll solve the problem much more efficiently...</p>
<p>BlacknBlue,
I am thrilled that you were accepted at Swarthemore ED - it is a fabulous school, and an impressive accomplishment for you. I hope that you are not too concerned by the fact that Swat's yield and acceptance rates are approximately half of those for Harvard and Yale. Numbers aren't everything. </p>
<p>Of course, you have most of us at a disadvantage, since repeatedly demeaning a school on its own thread requires a certain special type of personality which is, I believe, rare for both for UChicago and Swat applicants.</p>
<p>Haha. Owned.
You can apply EA and ED right?
Did BnB get rejected from Chicago EA?
You seem to have taken a huge vested interest in Chicago and I really can't understand why.
Either you're really really jealous, petty, or you're just lame and have nothing better to do with your time. A mix might be possible as well.</p>
<p>I'd have to agree with ridethecliche, since I have a hard time understanding why you've taken such a huge interest in Chicago since you were accepted at an amazing LAC - arguably the best!</p>
<p>If BnB was accepted to Swarthmore ED, BnB is probably experiencing "buyers remorse" and has become a Chicago wannabe.</p>
<p>Maybe we should all start to post on the Swarthmore Board and expose BnB for what he is?</p>
<p>Just kidding, that makes us no better than BnB. I wonder what colleges the 61% of the students that declined admission to Swarthmore are attending?</p>
<p>It also appears that Swarthmore students seem to have the same overall SAT profile as UChicago students.</p>
<p>Gosh... probably means that they are all sad, depressed, Ivy rejects as well, destined for failure just like the rest of us attending Chicago!!!</p>
<p>I could not locate more recent information in Swat's common data set, but I would guess that the ED rate is likely under 40% for this year, as they had such a successful year admissions-wise. </p>
<p>Just a comment on ED. The very well to do are good candidates for ED. Those of us whose children require financial aid require a great deal of courage - or naivity - to persue that option. The discussion of 'going ED to increase yield' is - to this middle class mother - akin to Swift's Modest Proposal - but without the irony or understanding.</p>
<p>Haha sorry :-(
I was just expressing my angst for the amount of debt i've just signed onto myself by sending in my deposit to my preferred of the two final colleges.</p>