<p>How come this university isn't regarded like all other competitive schools. usually when I ask anybody what they know about the UofChicago, they don't know? I'm really interested in applying.</p>
<p>Most people cannot name the Ancient Eight either. Chicago is a fine school don't worry about what other unknowing folks think.</p>
<p>I think it also gets unfair "name recognition" because it sounds almost like a state school. Anyway, to the people who matter it is quite an excellent school.</p>
<p>For those who apply, where else do they apply to? When I looked on princetonreview.com it said, "people who apply to uofc also applied to," and some were like, Princeton, Harvard, Georgetown and I looked at it and I was just incredulous because I had never really heard of uofc before.</p>
<p>and we should care what you have heard because why?</p>
<p>yo its just a question, you don't need to get all nasty about it. I was just wondering why it didn't have the same recognition as other schools. And if you don't care what I have heard, then don't read it and don't act all petulant and infantile.</p>
<p>They also apply to Reed, St. John's, Columbia, and Swarthmore.</p>
<p>That's part of the magic of U of Chicago. The people who end up going there REALLY want to learn and use its resources...it's not just for the name or whatever.</p>
<p>I think that some of this anger is due to the fact that you acted sort of surprised that Chicago was listed as being on the same level as some of the other elite schools you mentioned. I am guessing that they thought that you were putting down the school because you assumed that it shouldn't be listed with those and other elite colleges. </p>
<p>The kids at chicago apply to chicago because they really want to go to chicago. People don't usuallly apply to Chicago just for the fun of it or just to add another school to their list. This stems both from the unique, quirky and intelectual personality of the school and the "Uncommon application" which certainly requires a lot of time and energy to fill out. The pool is largely self selecting. Plus I think most students enjoy the fact that it is less nationally advertised than harvard or yale because it gives them the sense of belonging to a close-knit club (my opinion). So if you choose to apply, you should apply because you love learning and want to do a lot of it in the next four (hopefully) years.</p>
<p>Chicago has also gained popularity when the public found out i was applying</p>
<p>Not surprised... :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Whoa...hey, scrapiron215, I live in Houston, too.</p>
<p>what school do you go to?</p>
<p>Well I didn't mean to put it down, in fact I plan on applying there because I think the school is great, I just think that it should get some more recognition. Thats why when I found out about it, I was pretty suprised to see that it lacked the recognition it deserved when compared to the rest of the schools I mentioned.</p>
<p>So there's an agreement then: U of Chi-town is sexy</p>
<p>That has to be true... considering the squirrels are sexier than the women.</p>
<p>So, where does that put the men?</p>
<p>At badger level?</p>
<p>Couldn't possibly be... I mean if you attend... ;)</p>
<p>yes, I raise the standards significantly</p>
<p>what with those muscles of mine</p>
<p>especially my ass........it's just nice</p>
<p>I thought readers of this thread might be interested in the opinion of theisLondon Times Higher Ed supplement article excerpt:</p>
<p>A phoenix risen: influential Chicago sets pace and style</p>
<p>Jon Marcus
Published: 21 October 2005</p>
<p>The motto of the University of Chicago is Crescat scientia; vita excolatur: "Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched." The cerebral private university lives up to this maxim by applying its scholarly work, especially in the social sciences, to real-world issues.</p>
<p>Its economics department is so influential that an entire realm of economics is known as the Chicago School. In sociology, the Chicago School refers to the university's pioneering of the field of urban studies. In fact, Chicago is where the academic study of sociology began.</p>
<p>Despite the nagging problem of an endowment only half the size of even the smallest of its counterpart schools, the social sciences division, housed in an English gothic building, is "the finest collection of social sciences departments in the world", says John Mark Hansen, its dean.</p>
<p>The world is where the university's founders, including the oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, got their inspiration. Chicago, which was modelled after German-style graduate research universities, was designed partly to resemble Oxford and Cambridge universities when it was built only two decades after the devastating Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (its mascot is the phoenix).</p>
<p>Today, only Cambridge exceeds it in the number of Nobel prizewinners on the faculty (78). There have also been three Pulitzer prizewinners, a two-time winner of the Booker Prize, two recipients of the National Humanities Award and 13 recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship, known as the "genius grant"...</p>
<p>So intellectually intense is the university that it finds itself fending off a reputation for humourlessness. It is "Where Fun Comes to Die", according to a popular T-shirt slogan - especially for the 4,500 undergraduates, who, unusually for a US university, are a minority compared with the 9,300 graduate and continuing education students...</p>
<p>As in economics and sociology (the university is home to the American Journal of Sociology), Chicago is the definitive authority in American English usage. The University of Chicago Press - the largest university publisher in the US - publishes the influential Chicago Manual of Style.</p>