<p>chocoholic: to note, that may be more because of Chicago’s focus than, necessarily, their excellence. After all, as everyone keeps saying, Chicago is the place for the “life of the mind,” and they have a high, high percentage of students who go on to become teachers. A lot of people go to Chicago because they love to learn, and people that love to learn often find themselves in academia, something which requires a graduate degree. </p>
<p>The school is not very pre-professional, so they groom students for higher higher learning more than they groom students to enter the workforce upon receipt of their B.A./B.S. (Think of it this way: if you’re going to be an auto mechanic and that’s all you want from school, are you doing to go to Harvard or Auto Tech College?)</p>