<p>"Thank you unalove for the kind of specific answer I was looking for.</p>
<p>Interesting you should say that ‘education is the school’s only real draw’ for Chicago. I would think that its reputation and the fact that it is in Chicago would also be attractions. </p>
<p>BTW, what do you think of your neighbor- Northwestern?"</p>
<p>Sadly, I think among educated people in top businesses or jobs, like professors, wallstreet journalists, or anything academia or science really, Chicago is incredibly well known. And it has great international prestige.</p>
<p>Problem is, most people don’t have one of the above jobs, and generally are the kind of people who think all college education is equivalent in course rigor, or brilliance of professors etc. They usually are the ones that think a crappy mcCrap state education is equivalent harvard. These people usually have never heard of Chicago. Pity, the name does not hold weight with the “elite” or informed.</p>
<p>I also live in california if that makes a difference. I think people in California are stupid when it comes to higher education. Ide say the average person in California thinks Harvard and Stanford are the two best schools in the world, and that Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCDavis, Cal Poly SLO, San Diego State, and Chico State are equally as good, and nobody knows anything about Pomona, Caltech, Claremont McKenna, or Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>I really find it pitiful. Im a senior in High School, and just last week I was signing up at community college to take a class next semester, and at orientation, the lady was going on about how all “higher education” was equally as difficult. She had this whack idea that 2 years at community college is as difficult as 2 years at Berkeley, UCLA,Stanford, Caltech, etc. And the whole time i was thinking of how stupid she was.</p>