<p>I am posting for the first time and have to agree that the CC forum for Chicago doesn’t make it look very good. My child is attending Chicago in the fall and has been so turned off by the snobbery and also status/prestige consciousness of the CC’ers on that board that he stopped reading it.</p>
<p>He knows he will find regular UChicago kids when he gets there, and knows that CC kids are often not representative of the larger population of students, but he mentioned that it definitely comes off as sort of desperate nerd trying to join the popular group while still maintaining a brainiac snobbishness. </p>
<p>For my son, the appeal of Chicago was that it isn’t part of that Ivy League status/competition and he mourns the culture change.</p>
<p>He is also awaiting results at Columbia. If he should be admitted he will go spend a day there and might go there, something that was inconceivable 3 months ago when he was all Chicago, all the time.</p>