CMC VS U of Chicago VS Carleton

newmassdad
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:07:10 +0000

To take a contrary view from UCLA:

The rank is:

1) the place where you did the best and can get the best recs from faculty
2) the place where you did second best…

You get the idea. what good would it be to go to chicago only to find out you don’t like the atmosphere, so you do middling? You then become just one more college grad scrapping to get that first job.

I am also rather amazed that UCLA puts Carleton a very distant 3rd. Maybe LA is far from the midwest and still considers Minnesota to be flyover territory, but a good portion of the rest of the world, in and out of the US, is better informed than that.

OP, stop listening to us and do what your gut tells you. And don’t be seduced by “prestige” or institutional name recognition. It will not get you personally very far.