<p>Two honest questions:</p>
<p>1.) If acceptance rate is only 1.5% of the USNews score, what suddenly happened in the last few years to make UChicago jump forward in the rankings?</p>
<p>2.) What would it take for UChicago, or any quality university for that matter, to be regarded as well as HYPSM? So far, this thread gives me the impression that UChicago is sub-HYPSM because 1) it has less $$$ and 2) since it’s not Ivy League or on the coast it will always have the stigma of being a lesser school no matter how many Nobel Prizes, government officials, and advanced degrees it produces.</p>
<p>Also dang 3 posts came up in the time I was writing this ._.</p>