<p>Had to do a bit of editing to remove duplicates (Reg, gargoyles, etc.) and add material.</p>
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<li>It’s in Chicago</li>
<li>Awesome core curriculum</li>
<li>Tons of nobel-winning professors</li>
<li>Top political science program in the US</li>
<li>Top 10 in the US for sending undergrads to med school</li>
<li>Ugly girls so you won’t be distracted from your studies</li>
<li>Life of the mind</li>
<li>The mascot…phoenix rocks!</li>
<li>Gargoyles</li>
<li>Cool motto: Crescat scientia, vita excolatur</li>
<li>Interesting and slightly self-deprecating t-shirts</li>
<li>Excellent faculty</li>
<li>Number one econ program in the nation</li>
<li>Quarter system</li>
<li>Good advertising (i.e. the dean of admissions actually seems interesting as a person)</li>
<li>Quirky essay prompts (think giant mustard jar)</li>
<li>Scavenger Hunt</li>
<li>“Where fun comes to die” (taken with a grain, or pillar, of salt)</li>
<li>Lovely campus complete with Neo-Gothic architecture</li>
<li>The Reg</li>
<li>Cool school color: not just crimson or scarlet, but Maroon</li>
<li>Intriguing school history</li>
<li>“That’s great in practice, but how does it work in theory?”</li>
<li>Charming dorms</li>
<li>Lack of grade inflation </li>
<li>Learning>partying (most of the time, that is)</li>
<li>On a Great Lake</li>
<li>Winter!</li>
<li>General quirkiness</li>
<li>BA/MD program</li>
<li>Has the best viewbook</li>
<li>Tore down a football field and replaced it with a library</li>
<li>Only school undefeated against Notre Dame (this story was the highlight of my tour)</li>
<li>Really, really slow elevator in the music building</li>
<li>Rockafeller Chapel</li>
<li>Indiana Jones based of an old anthropology professor</li>
<li>Cellular Field (home of the ‘05 World Champion White Sox) is right down the road</li>
<li>Uncommon Application</li>
<li>Fundementals Sequence</li>
<li>Computational Neuroscience</li>
<li>Communist Statue outside Economics Dept. Building, a hammer or something (I think)</li>
<li>MILTON FRIEDMAN!!! </li>
<li>KURT VONNEGUT</li>
<li>The Maroon</li>
<li>From above, see: <a href=“http://maroon.uchicago.edu/online_edition/viewpoints/2006/11/28/embracing-negativity-at-the-u-of-c-is-a-choice-reject-it/[/url]”>http://maroon.uchicago.edu/online_edition/viewpoints/2006/11/28/embracing-negativity-at-the-u-of-c-is-a-choice-reject-it/</a></li>
<li>Ugly people (refer to reason #6) are infinitely more interesting</li>
<li>Kuviasungnerk </li>
<li>I want to live an in an orange dorm!</li>
<li>Paul Sally </li>
<li>First Heisman Winner EVER</li>
<li>Frequent Chitown concerts by Lupe and Kanye
52: Tucker Max</li>
<li>Some of the dorms are old hotels</li>
<li>Oriental Institute Museum</li>
<li>Offer courses on Sumerian and Luwian</li>
<li>Elizabeth Peters!</li>
<li>Not in the South</li>
<li>Hyde Park!</li>
<li>Senator Obama used to teach constitutional law here</li>
<li>It looks like Hogwarts</li>
<li>Because educated sex is better than not - Andrew Abbot</li>
<li>It’s underrated like crazy </li>
<li>The campus is a botanical garden</li>
<li>Levitt - Freakenomics </li>
<li>The varsity circle</li>
<li>You can never be too far from a coffee shop </li>
<li>Most of the rooms are singles- or close to it </li>
<li>The fact that no one believed that DannonWater could get in, then got in EA</li>
<li>Pizza</li>
<li>Alumnus David Brookes’ column in the New York Times expounding the virtues of the core curriculum (“The Education of Robert Kennedy,” November 26, 2006)</li>
<li>Doc films</li>
<li>University Theater</li>
<li>G&S - HMS Pinafore <a href=“http://music.uchicago.edu/index.phtml?page_id=155[/url]”>http://music.uchicago.edu/index.phtml?page_id=155</a></li>
<li>Libby’s admissions blog</li>
<li>Hitchcock house mascot (armadillo) and motto (deformis sed utiles)</li>
<li>Rockefeller Chapel’s Carillon - a 100 ton musical instrument - <a href=“http://rockefeller.uchicago.edu/carillon.html[/url]”>http://rockefeller.uchicago.edu/carillon.html</a></li>
<li>Opening convocation speeches by Ted ONeill <a href=“College Admissions at the University of Chicago”>College Admissions at the University of Chicago;
<li>All of those wonderful graduate students</li>
<li>Character building weather</li>
<li>House dining and outings</li>
<li>Reminders of the 1892 Worlds Fair</li>
<li>Origin of the real “Monsters of the Midway”</li>
<li>Home of the first Heisman Trophy winner</li>
<li>Math department is a little gem</li>
<li>Great workout facilities</li>
<li>Mr. University of Chicago contest</li>
<li>The Folk Festival</li>
<li>Possibility of swimming in Lake Mich. in late Sept. or early Oct. at the Point</li>
<li>Healthy looking squirrels (4 squirrels on the Squirrel Ranking <a href=“http://www.gottshall.com/squirrels/campsq.htm[/url]”>http://www.gottshall.com/squirrels/campsq.htm</a>)</li>
<li>People at Harvard and Princeton can’t help but shudder when they think of “how bad they’ve got it at UChicago” </li>
<li>Wednesdays = Shake Days!</li>
<li>The possibility that you will knock off a Harvard or UPenn grad when you interview for that job (Peacemaker’s S did at his interview!)</li>
<li>Scav Hunt</li>
<li>Small class sizes (83% < 25 students)</li>
<li>Lopsided undergrad:grad student ratio</li>
<li>90% of professors teach undergrads</li>
<li>#6 for PhD production among universities</li>
<li>Cooperation with the Field Museum and Argonne Lab</li>
<li>Seminary Bookstore</li>
<li>Largest university press in the US</li>
<li>Where else would one find the world’s best Paleontology and Egyptology programs?</li>
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