Where Fun Goes to Die-- I had actually never heard this before but my nephew said that first when I asked him how he had liked U Chicago. His mother, who is a powerhouse and not particularly focused on “fun” agreed and said something like, “we heard that before Connor went but we figured he could bring his own fun. We were wrong.” He’s in the middle of med school applications now and is feeling the grade deflation thing acutely. I think it’s a tremendous school but it is intense and competitive. I think the only other school I’ve heard of that is as demanding is Columbia. I know kids who are at some pretty exclusive schools (Brown, Wellesley, Stanford, Johns Hopkins) and all of them report a more relaxed culture.
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