Chicago = best school in the Midwest

unalove
Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:19:52 +0000

Saying that Chicago has the best overall academic experience in the midwest is like saying that The Godfather is the best American movie ever made-- just because people may agree with you doesn’t make it objectively true (what about Citizen Kane? Casablanca? Gone with the Wind? The Graduate?) and doesn’t make it true for you.

College, like movies, are all about taste, and nobody can really tell you what the “best” is-- rather, the most they could help you is to give you a handful of options that they believe could be the best academic schools in the midwest.

Schools with strong academics in the midwest include: Chicago, Northwestern, WashU, Notre Dame, Michigan, Illinois (more science/engineering I hear, but a lot of my U of C friends had a difficult time choosing U of C over the excellent and cheap education they would have gotten at U of I), Wisconsin, Carleton, Macalester, Oberlin, Kenyon, Grinnell, Beloit, Earlham, Knox