<p>uhh, if a student chose Chicago undergrad over Harvard for anything (including Economics) I'd be suprised...you'll get the same background experience at all elite colleges in economics</p>
<p>Grad school is where individual program strength, faculty, and Nobel Prizes and what-not play a real role.</p>
<p>I would not be surprised...Many students do it.. Go the Chicago thread and they have a huge thread going on abot why people would rather go to Chicago than Harvard.</p>
<p>Well, some people on Chicago thread seem to like cheerleading themselves how great they are and how they are better than all others ("we are so much more intellectual than this and that", "feel like school XYZ is high school all over again when I visited"). Of course, they don't do it so blatantly. They'd say it's "different" but when you actually read further, you can smell that inferiority/superiority complex. Reveal preference ranking shows in reality, extremely small percentage of people would pick Chicago over Harvard. I wouldn't take that as representative of what the reality is.</p>
<p>Uh, no, not very many kids pick Chicago over other top 5-10 schools - it loses out on a significant share of its cross-admits with Penn, Duke, Columbia, Dartmouth...let alone HYPSM</p>
<p>I mean, the students who go to Chicago are super-smart, but not any more talented on average than its peer 5-10 ranked schools, which is why I doubt many pick Chicago over HYPSM</p>
<p>I agree that students here (here being Chicago) are no smarter and no dumber than students at other top schools, but Sam, that's not the point. The point is not that "we're smarter than you," the point is that "we're nerdy and weird and we do things a little differently." It is what it sounds like. Nobody would chastise a student from Brown, Reed, Carleton, Wesleyan, Swarthmore, Harvey Mudd, Bard, Sarah Lawrence, etc. etc. etc. for saying that they and their school are a little different from the norm... so why such a hard time accepting that Chicago students are different too?</p>
<p>Chicago tends to cater to a certain type of student, i.e. one that wants to work hard, doesn't mind getting low(er) grades than his friends at peer schools, and wants to spend four weeks reading The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant. I bet you can make Harvard into Chicago, but you can't make Chicago into Harvard. So it's no surprise that students tend to choose Harvard over Chicago, but those that don't certainly have their reasons.</p>
<p>To relate this to the OP about econ... I mean, both schools are top-notch for econ, but consider the school itself, not the major, especially for Chicago.</p>
<p>I understand that there is more to choosing a college than just for my major, but I want to attend a college with a first class economics department. No, not just first class...one of the best. I'm not looking for the most prestigious school like the Ivies, but I do want a school that have a very prominent economics department. And again, don't just say a lot of colleges is great for econ majors. I know that already. I'm looking more for like a list of the top 10 colleges for econ.</p>
<p>Well out of the Ivies, Harvard is the best.</p>
<p>we<em>tard</em>it, there isn't such a thing as a top 10 list for undergraduate Econ departments. There are literally dozens of Econ departments that can be considered "one of the best". Graduate rankings are a good place to start of course, but they do not include many top notch Econ departments that aren't research intensive, like Dartmouth or Swarthmore. I think the list of the top 10-15 graduate Econ departments has already been discussed.</p>
<p>Columbia University
Harvard University *
Massachusetts Institute of Technology *
Northwestern University *
Princeton University *
Stanford University *
University of California-Berkeley *
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-San Diego
University of Chicago *
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylania *
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yale University *</p>
<p>(* denotes definite top 1 Econ Departments)</p>
<p>But you cannot ignore the dozen or so other amazing Econ departments that aren't as research intensive. Departments like Amherst, Brown, Carleton, Claremont McKenna, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Haverford, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Wesleyan and Williams.</p>
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Maybe this is why I ranked LSE BELOW those schools?</p>
<p>Also, the Times ranked the LSE as #2 worldwide for social sciences, second only to Harvard. I would put the LSE's respect on par with Chicago and any other school, the reason why I ranked it below the others is because the UNDERGRAD academic experience at a US uni can't be beat, but at the grad level I'd put the LSE up against any other school.</p>
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First of all, I said politicians who are ALSO lawyers.</p>
<p>Off the top of my head, you have, uh, Barack Obama (you may have heard of him), Rick Santorum, Hillary Clinton...</p>
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EDIT: Just for kicks i decided to enter economics ranking into google to see what pops up. And lo, there it was. An economics ranking, first hit. According to google the search took 0.06 seconds. Laziness is lame.
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Amen.</p>