<p>I am happy to find that UChicago is ranked #5 happiest school in the nation, according to College ******* from Newsweek magazine; not bad for a place that "fun comes to die."</p>
<p>College</a> Rankings 2012: 25 Happiest Schools (Photos) - Newsweek and The Daily Beast</p>
<p>Correction: the title should have been "ranked #5", not #4. Sorry.</p>
<p>Good find.</p>
<p>I’m sure this ranking will boost morale among our stressed comrades.</p>
<p>Any ranking that puts CMU in the top 10 for having the “Happiest Students” should not be taken seriously.</p>
<p>Methodology doesn’t make sense… Cornell is ranked above many other schools just because its retention rate is one percent higher, but it’s ranked more poorly in all other categories. Not dumping on Cornell, just saying the methodology is rather… Screwy.</p>
<p>Good advertising material for the University for the upcoming admissions cycle.</p>
<p>UChicago always ranks highly in student satisfaction because students know they’re getting one of the greatest educations available in the entire world.</p>
<p>UChicago “always” ranks highly in student satisfaction, Phuriku?</p>
<p>This ranking is nice, but UChicago ranking near the top in any “happiness” ranking is a very, very new trend. I’d say up until maybe the mid-2000s, UChicago would not fare well in any of these surveys.</p>
<p>Interestingly, according to this ranking, almost 90% of the UChicago student body would pick the school all over again, if given the choice. This was certainly not the case maybe 10 years ago, where I’d say, at best, 75-80% of the students would make the same call. It’s good to see that UChicago students seem generally more content in Hyde Park.</p>
<p>always ranks highly = present tense, refers to the present.</p>
<p>If I meant what you think I meant, I would have said “has always ranked highly,” no?</p>
<p>Student satisfaction for Chicago students has been very high for at least the past 5 years. Forbes rankings also takes student satisfaction into account, which is partly why Chicago always performs very well in Forbes’ rankings. Also, remember when Princeton Review ranked Chicago the best academic experience like 5 years ago? I don’t think they’d do that if all the students were miserable.</p>
<p>Though this may be a relatively new phenomenon for the old alums, for the youngbloods, this isn’t too much of a new development.</p>
<p>I don’t know . . . it kinda feels like they may be strapping on their ice skates and putting up the hockey nets in Hell. And the next remake of Charlotte’s Web is going to have a scene where Wilbur plays Quidditch.</p>
<p>This methodology seems more geared towards measuring satisfaction rather than happiness. Granted, happiness is a pretty ambiguous term – or at least, there are many different ways to achieve ‘happiness’. I’d say UChicagoans are very satisfied and happy that they chose to go to UChicago, but they’re not the blissful, care-free sort of happy.</p>
<p>There was a happiness survey done back in the 1980s that was the subject of a George Will column. It seems Chicago was ranked something like 300 in terms of fun. Will wrote that Chicago students were a special lot, since when an interviewer asked a Chicago student’s opinion about being ranked so low, the student immediately replied, “Who is claiming fun is linear?” (or something to that effect, it has been a few years :)) He marveled at the wit and quick thinking of Chicago students, I would hope a question about the current survey would occasion a similar response.</p>
<p>Newsweek/The Daily Beast also has a ranking of the Most Stressful Schools.</p>
<p>[College</a> Rankings 2012: Most Stressful Schools (Photos) - Newsweek and The Daily Beast](<a href=“http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleries/2012/08/05/college-rankings-2012-most-stressful-schools-photos.html]College”>http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleries/2012/08/05/college-rankings-2012-most-stressful-schools-photos.html)</p>
<p>The number of schools that appear on both the Happiest list and the Most Stressful list is surprisingly large.</p>
<p>UChicago is supposedly the 12th most stressful. #1 is WUSL.</p>
<p>“Happy”? I would say Pomona and Carleton are at the top. Chicago and Swarthmore less so, but students are highly satisfied with their top notch curricula and peer groups.</p>