Anyone with any objective views about Chicago, please??

ammarsfound
Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:31:08 +0000

I think Chicago is a good university. It concentrates on academics, the atmosphere felt very intellectual, and people seem very friendly. However, I do believe that its students, at least most of them, suffer from an inferiority complex. They get worked up over little things like how people on the street think the university’s a state school, why the office has such a low yield/high acceptance rate, allegations of grade deflation etc. I generalize, obviously, but it seems like chicago students have a …need to prove to the entire world that, yes, the number 8 position on usnews is completely warranted, yes we’re better than brown, cornell, northwestern whatever. In this respect they tend to get snotty. Thats probably why i’ve read/heard comments like ‘dartmouth? thats a school for drunks’, ‘brown students are just hippies who like to get high’, "Chicago gives you an academic experience the ivies can only dream of’. Before one of the people i’m talking about comes up and points out the princeton review undergraduate academic experience rankings or whatever, I would like to point out that UChicago was my number one choice at one point. I applied EA, it was the only school i visited and i adored it. What stopped me from enrolling? This feeling that everyone needed to prove the schools worth to the rest of the world, almost as a compulsion. It’s a little ironic that the same people who keep insisting, almost to the point of being unreasonable, how amazing their school is, cannot feel secure enough to not have to do so.