<p>@FStratford, my point is that Chicago is not going to surpass HYPSM anytime soon. Outside of academia, its most recent graduates are still nowhere as impressive compared to graduates from Columbia, Duke, and Dartmouth. There is a lot of ground to make up for, and my concern is that too many people on this forum are being too optimistic and attributing too much of Chicago’s future success to just admissions statistics. I’ve been a long-time lurker (I don’t always post, but I actively keep up in this forum) and I can’t tell you how posts I’ve seen in the UChicago forum that remind me of the exact same kind of thinking that perpetuates during stock market bubbles.</p>