<p>Check this interesting thread out:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/936860-honors-graduate-174-lsat-shut-out-top-law-schools.html?highlight=Chicago+friends+rejected+law[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/936860-honors-graduate-174-lsat-shut-out-top-law-schools.html?highlight=Chicago+friends+rejected+law</a></p>
<p>^He should be glad with the admission result given his relatively low GPA. “Honors” cover a huge range at UChicago.</p>
<p>That’s a loltastic post.</p>
<p>3.3 in the Classics? Turning down party invites? This kid has learning and social disabilities.</p>
<p>And this “not caring about grades” and “just trying my best” is all euphemistic BS for “I’m a lazy schmuck.”</p>
<p>Not representative of the typical Chicago student.</p>
<p>Yeah, thing about UChicago, every year a few people breathe a little too deeply of the ‘aura’ and, well, stuff like this happens. Someone in a ‘soft’ major with a below-average GPA complains that they only got accepted at two top 14 law schools . . .</p>
<p>So watch out for the woe-is-me kids and the That kids, and you’ll do fine. :)</p>
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<p>Chicago has parties??</p>
<p>ouch, that must hurt when your own university rejects you from it’s law school. must be awkward.</p>
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<p>Chicago has parties?</p>
<p>It hasn’t been described as “The place where fun goes to die” for nothing.</p>
<p>This thread is hilarious. If you have to ask, you should probably be at Northwestern…</p>
<p>It could be that he/she just means UChicago has a very specific identity that people either hate or love, not feel ambivalent about. But if that was meant as an insult, that was incredibly immature :)</p>
<p>Btw, I’m at Harvard now and Northwestern students tend to be better-liked by peers and faculty here. I do think that in the end, Northwestern provides a more balanced education. Obviously, I’m biased since I chose Northwestern over Chicago… It’s just more my style. Dating-wise, I imagine it confers a significant advantage as well.</p>
<p>Wildcatalum, yes, thanks, that is how the comment was intended; drollery does not convey well on message boards.</p>
<p>Having said that, I’m at Harvard as well right now and, re: Northwestern being “better liked”…I can’t begin to imagine what circles you’re in. From my perspective, Northwestern is not “better liked” or “less liked” so much as it is more-or-less ignored…only occasionally invoked in the Emory-Rice-Villanova-Duke class of fine regional universities. </p>
<p>Chicago, on the other hand, is among a small handful of institutions (Stanford, MIT, Tokyo, Cambridge, among a few others) that seem to attract the most attention here.</p>
<p>But, again, that’s just based on what I see/hear,</p>
<p>^lol…if you think people actually like what you just said, you wouldn’t think you are less liked.</p>
<p>You’re deluding yourself if you think people here classify UChicago as being the same level as MIT, Cambridge, etc. They don’t even think of it as being on the same level as Duke or Penn, whereas Northwestern naturally fits in in this league. Anybody who sees themselves in the level of Harvard, MIT, etc but who don’t quite belong there show a high level of social awkwardness, ESPECIALLY when you got in back in the day when UChicago’s acceptance rate was much much higher than it is now. Don’t ride on the successes of your younger counterparts 
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<p>I think GSAS has more respect for you but at the law or med schools, you guys just don’t fit in unfortunately. It doesn’t help that the law school in particular is very appearance-conscious and UChicago students don’t feel (as they admitted themselves) they do well this department.</p>
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This has got to be one of the stupidest things I’ve read on this site. Villanova might be a “regional university” but Northwestern and Duke most certainly are not.</p>
<p>I’m at Harvard too, and from what I can tell, only a real tool cares that much about where you went to undergrad. It’s about what you do with it, not how big it is, boys.</p>
<p>Wildcatalum re: GSAS v Law, etc. </p>
<p>Ah, I see. You seemed to be making a statement about “Harvard”–and all of Harvard. I merely stated that from “my perspective” such a generalization should not be made. Different departments/schools will have different peers. Not sure why one would consider this assertion “deluded.” But, hey…</p>
<p>I am curious about your apparent deep familiarity with Harvard’s med and law schools, as the two institutions are, as you know, quite different; indeed, they’re located in different cities. So I’m mildly interested to hear that they share the same opinion with regard to neighboring midwestern universities.</p>
<p>The bigger issue, though, is this: No one cares. No one cares where you went to college, much less where you were admitted to college. Villanova, Chicago (oh, sorry UChicago), Princeton, Penn State. It doesn’t matter where you went. Just what you do. </p>
<p>The admissions offices at the elite schools (and even sub-elite) don’t want you to know this. So they play on normal adolescent insecurities to create the frenzy, then stick you with a student loan tab you’ll be paying for the rest of your working lives. Lol.</p>
<p>Chicago (oops, UChicago) is late to the game, but now playing it beautifully. Think about it: For all intents and purposes, it’s the same university I attended almost 10 years ago. Same professors, same courses, same campus. When I applied, nobody wanted to go there. (I think they accepted 50% of their applicants.) Today, I see people on these boards getting into hysterics over their chances for admission. </p>
<p>What’s changed? Not much more than the marketing targeted at 'lil kiddies like you.</p>
<p>It doesn’t take long for the obsessions of high schoolers to look like an awkward joke (midway through September of freshman year for me). That’s why, believe it or not, most folks don’t measure themselves or the value of their education against the fashion whims of adolescent America.</p>
<p>Bye for now!</p>
<p>“I’m at Harvard too, and from what I can tell, only a real tool cares that much about where you went to undergrad. It’s about what you do with it, not how big it is, boys.”</p>
<p>And yet you feel the need to whip out that H-card and swing it around.</p>
<p>And that other fellow resurrects a two-year old thread to disparage a well-respected institution and to pull out his trump card and wag it in front of posters’ faces.</p>
<p>You claim undergraduate prestige doesn’t matter, but at the same time you proclaim to attend the most prestigious undergraduate university and then denigrate the prestige of other universities, making an issue out of what you claim should not be an issue.</p>
<p>“You’re deluding yourself if you think people here classify UChicago as being the same level as MIT, Cambridge, etc. They don’t even think of it as being on the same level as Duke or Penn, whereas Northwestern naturally fits in in this league.”</p>
<p>Your delusion is cute, but if you’ve even looked around the non-Northwestern parts of the forum, you’ll see that very, very few consider Northwestern higher than Chicago. Most people on CC and in the real world classify Chicago as more prestigious. The only people who think otherwise are average Joes who’ve never heard of Chicago, but at least know of Northwestern as the Big 10 school that loses at everything. At least you can watch Big 10 games at Northwestern, even if your team never wins, right?</p>
<p>^If Northwestern “never win”, they wouldn’t have won/shared Big Ten football championships 3 times in the last 15 years. If they “lose at everything”, they wouldn’t be ranked 58th out of all Div-I schools in the latest Directors Cup standing. </p>
<p>Currently our w lax is ranked #1 and our golf team is leading at Bryan National Collegiate</p>
<p><a href=“http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/nw/sports/w-golf/auto_pdf/2011-12/stats/season_stats_20120406aaa.pdf[/url]”>http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/nw/sports/w-golf/auto_pdf/2011-12/stats/season_stats_20120406aaa.pdf</a>
<a href=“http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/nacda/sports/directorscup/auto_pdf/2011-12/misc_non_event/apr5dI.pdf[/url]”>http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/nacda/sports/directorscup/auto_pdf/2011-12/misc_non_event/apr5dI.pdf</a></p>