does uchicago like to feed its undergrads into its graduate schools?

Cue7
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:37:55 +0000

I strongly disagree with neltharion, and agree with JHS. To put it bluntly, from what I know, Chicago’s grad programs have a strong preference for the undergrad. I have friends at Pritzker Med, Chicago Law, Booth etc., and especially for the professional schools, Chicago seems to be pretty incestuous. From what I recall at Chicago Law, out of a class of 180 or so, 12-16 students went to Chicago undergrad. That’s pretty much equivalent a ratio to the 20-25 penn undergrads a year who go on to Penn Law (UPenn law has a class size of about 250). There are tons of Chicago undergrads at Chicago Booth, Pritzker as well.

For the grad schools, it may be different because the Chicago undergrad emphasizes sending its students to OTHER grad schools. From what I know, it’s a bit frowned upon to get a PhD from the school that grants you your undergrad degree.

Overall though, yeah, I’d say incest is significant at Chicago.