<p>haha BlacknBlue... you still haven't changed a bit. </p>
<p>BTW -since you were wondering- your particulars are very relevant since they explain the nature of your comments. </p>
<p>My poor poor BlacknBlue, I apologize that I had to be the one to tell everyone that you didn't make it to UChi. </p>
<p>If you want though, maybe I could make it up to you by helping you explain to everyone why a majority of your twenty-two pages of posts is meant to put Chicago down. I'm serious... If you want, I really will help you explain why you spend more time on the Chicago forum (making sure that everyone knows about how Chicago is not as selective as HYPSM) than that of your own alma matter's. I mean you could hang around Wash U's forum and criticize their "recruit and reject policy" or maybe even the Tufts forum and mess with the "sensitive" people there... and yet, you choose Chicago. Ah, what an honor it will be for me to help you explain all that.</p>
<p>But wait, I think I might have explained it already... Oops...</p>
<p>Knowing you though, I just can't wait to hear what your explanation will be.</p>
<p>yeah, in a way you are kind of a random voice that is floating around. I think that if you write something that isn't opinionated based, but about yourself, then your voice may carry more weight around here-</p>
<p>blacknblue, if you want to put these comments to rest, i suggest you tell people your college choice. seriously, why are you avoiding this? it only makes you look more suspicious. if you want people to stop bugging you about your college acceptances, you'll want to answer the questions below:
1. Did you apply to Uchicago?
2. Did you get in?
3. Where are you going to college?
I really dont mean to pick on you. But if you keep on avoiding this, people will just believe that you didnt get in to Uchic. if you dont want to answer this, tell us WHY NOT.</p>
<p>patsfan: i don't know if swarthmore is a school where williams and amherst rejects go to. i don't particularly care. uchi, on the other hand is probably where a lot of swarthmore rejects turn to.</p>
<p>problms4loki: if you read my posts, you'll see that i hold uchi in very high esteem. i wasn't the one who started this thread or the other similar threads relating to the topic of accepted uchi applicants choosing to attend other places. i believe that it was pyramid who started this posting (i don't remember) but pyramid chose to attend jhu over uchi. that is not a choice i would have made if faced with that decision.</p>
<p>scrub: if you want to think you know who i am, that's cool. i will reiterate that i was not rejected by uchi, but you can choose to believe whatever you like. it's a free country.</p>
<p>robertsont06: i don't particularly care whether my postings carry any weight at all. unlike many of the posters in this thread, i have not stated that i would throw uchi overboard for another institution. nor am i one of the many who state that had they gotten into xxxx school they would have gone there instead of uchi.</p>
<p>the fact that i crystallized this unbearable concept to the uchi koolaid drinkers makes me the lightning rod of uchi angst. the truth is, all you uchi apologists should point the finger of blame at the uchi administration for allowing a revered institution like uchi to be used as a doormat for the growing applicant pool out there that really have no intention of attending uchi if they get into their first choice school.</p>
<p>I am faced with the same decision as pyramid and I'm curious as to why you would choose Chicago over JHU? Better job offers? Better education? Better city? Please elaborate, thanks.</p>
<p>michaelburt: i stated that uchi over jhu is a choice that i would not make, but that doesn't mean that it would be the wrong choice for someone else. I will state up front for full disclosure that i have not been rejected by jhu either. so here are my thoughts. my prevalent notion of jhu is that of a med school mill. that is the impression that a lot of my friends have as well. right or wrong, i really can't say, but that is what i know of jhu. uchi has a more cerebral reputation that covers a broader range of study. not that one couldn't major in art history at jhu but jhu is more reknowned for its science curriculum. if science and more science is what you crave, then go to jhu. i wouldn't. i admit i am swayed by public opinion. whenever i hear uchi mentioned there is a certain reverence attached to whatever the topic is. i don't hear or feel that when jhu pops up. there is also the ta issue at jhu. i hear they rely heavily on ta's because their professors are doing the research that tickles them and that the actually doldrums of teaching snot nosed freshman is beneath them and something they have to do to garner their paychecks. i happen to like the sciences, it's just that i happen to like a lot of other subjects also. i just don't think that jhu is held in as high esteem as uchi. seems superficial but .....</p>
<p>JHU has done a ton in terms of investing in the humanities and trying to get over this med school mill rep that they got. There is an excellent art museum for your art-craving mind as well, :). However, I do see your point when it comes to that warm tingly feeling I get when I hear U of C.</p>
<p>michaelburt: you'll get into much better graduate programs than those at jhu coming from uchi. in fact, you'll probably have a better chance getting into the jhu grad programs from uchi than from jhu. pyramid didn't belong at uchi anyway, it appears pyramid was way hung up on rankings.</p>
<p>Yeah, with JHU being 13 and Chicago being 14, I guess it was a no brainer. Well I would love to attend SAIS in DC so hopefully choosing UofC over JHU doesn't make too much of a difference in that respect.</p>
<p>hey, I guess BnB isn't an evil, uchi hating, uniformed poster.
I guess we should back off a little.</p>
<p>-but I'd still like to get to know a little more about you, BnB (stats, college selection, areas of study...etc), so at least I can evaluate your point of view on things without having to confront you.</p>
<p>PS. BnB, you should really learn to use tone and tact in your writing more effectively- it may prevent a lot of this in the future. I noticed in your previous post that your words could have been taken kindly or offensively, dependant on the reader; and for that, I apologize.</p>
<p>If one looks at the numbers provided by Andrew Abbott (his area is the Sociology of Occupations) and others, one finds that where one chooses to go to undergrad school has little or no effect on later income. He suggests, that for those students admitted to top 20 schools, there is no evidence that going to school at all has an impact. It is about the qualities of the individual. </p>
<p>One can get into a great graduate school coming from almost any undergrad school. Beyond GPA & GRE scores, it is about one's research activities, recommendations, and demonstrated willingness to enter into indentured servitude (oh, I mean "work ethic"). A case in point, a friend's daughter finished her degree at a 3rd or 4th tier "minor" state university and then was accepted by a so-called elite school into the top ranked program in her field. </p>
<p>One should pick a school based on fit and affordability. The future will take care of itself.</p>
<p>So what's the big deal? Over and over and over he talks about how great Chicago is. BnB is just pointing out what he believes (and seems to be true based on this forum) to be true about UofC students.</p>
<p>I can say over and over again that I was always planning to go to UofC over cornell, but these words have no weight because I was REJECTED from Cornell.</p>
<p>BnB: "i also believe that the posters who consistently state that uchi is, was and will forever be their number one choice, didn't have another option."</p>
<p>you can't generalize like that.</p>
<p>i could have chosen barnard/columbia, but i didn't.</p>
<p>tiff: barnard and columbia aren't the same. different admissions policy. barnard has uchi like admittance rate. columbia has sub 20%. btw, did you get any merit aid from uchi?</p>