<p>Congrats on following your heart :-)</p>
<p>samcold0: it'll be nice to have someone who really wants to attend uchicago then people who don't appreciate uofc...so we'll pray for you...=)</p>
<p>carpecollege: Hope u'll have fun in JHU...it must have been hard deciding..congratz on your choice..coz both schools are equally good..</p>
<p>thanks daren, i actually really liked chicago, but i decided that for IR i didn't want to be in the midwest.</p>
<p>University of Chicago = awesome school, has a high admit rate, low yield rate, and has programs that even some Ivies wished they had.</p>
<p>BnB: This bickering is normal on the HYPMS boards (Do you know a guy named Byerly...oh boy). I should know, I've taken part in some of them :). There are people in EVERY school that feel the need to protect/fight for their school. It's common in every top school. Threads like these aren't rare, I don't know why you say that: </p>
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it if filled with parents and students that need, no crave, the validation that they, or their s and d, attend a school that is not only a great institution for learning, but perceived by everyone as, for lack of a better word, attractive to all applying students as the ivies, mit stanford et al. it is simply not so.
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<p>.....0.o. It is so.</p>
<p>carpecollege: I love Hopkins. Congrats on your acceptance and decision.</p>
<p>visit us in chicago when you're free...lol</p>
<p>Chicago and JHU are both great however...</p>
<p>Chicago is overall the better school, i think, in terms of academics, quality of student body</p>
<p>jhu accepts 35 percent of its students, gives us many merit based scholarships</p>
<p>chicago, accepts 40 percent, barely any merit based, quality of students is BETTER</p>
<p>JHU: average SAT, 1395
Chicag: average sat, 1440</p>
<p>chicago= better grad placement</p>
<p>not to create any controversy here, but... JHU's acceptance rate went down to about 28% this year i think. </p>
<p>I mainly agree with you about the quality of chicago students. BUT there are other reasons for going to a school like JHU (for me, they have an amazing IR program and are 1 hour from DC). Also, i think that JHU is a better fit for me. but yes both are great schools :)</p>
<p>After a painstaking process, campus visits, and a stressful April, my D narrowed her final choices down to Wesleyan and Chicago. chose Wesleyan over Chicago. She still has some serious regrets and she mailed her decision 4 days ago. Middletown isn't as fun as Chicago, but she essentially tossed a coin. She's already getting ready to transfer to U of C if she finds Wesleyan too small or isolated. And there's always U of Chicago for grad school....</p>
<p>I picked Columbia after a painstaking process. I still regret it though sometimes haha.</p>
<p>bport, i turned down Chicago last year for Cornell, and I just recently got into Chicago as a transfer, so u can tell ur daughter that they will most likely take her back if she wants.</p>
<p>bball87 : So does that mean you find Uchicago better then Cornell in a way?</p>
<p>and are you going bball87?</p>
<p>Wesleyan and Chicago both cater to different needs.
The 'fit' part is very important. Wesleyan and Chicago both are very intellectual undergrad institutions where students like to think, and both are extremely demanding in terms of academic workload (of course the level differs by major at both institutions). Wesleyan does tend to be more social and the general concensus is that students have more fun. Both school's students do very well for grad school.
It comes down to a question of fit. I know kids who turned down wes for chicago and chicago for wes, and both of them are VERY happy with their decision.
Daren, go to the wesleyan board there's a student over there who is trying to transfer to wes from cornell because they can't stand it there anymore. :-)</p>
<p>Blacknblue,</p>
<p>What do you think is more important: The quality of the University (profs courses majors, special programs) or students attending. I think Students at chicago are 2-nd tier in terms of intellectual diversity, but the schol itself is definitely one of the best.</p>
<p>going to rice university over uchicago</p>
<p>Going to CHicago over Amherst</p>
<p>Gasp, Chicago over amherst?
Oh yeah, a city's always good :-P</p>
<p>the University is better, the city sucks</p>
<p>hey! Chicago's great!</p>