<p>^^ Sounds like someone’s a bit bitter.</p>
<p>Your rant was funny though. Especially your comment about Chicago not focusing on their undergrads since you know, Chicago’s on the US News list of Best Undergraduate Teaching and has the oldest Great Books undergrad curriculum in the nation. Chicago just didn’t start holding their students’ hands until recently, which is why the campus was so dreary; if the fact that Duke has always been an easy school appeases you, then so be it. It’s a testament to the fact that Duke undergrad has never been on par with the rigors of a Chicago education.</p>
<p>Chicago WILL be the next part of HYPSM, and it’s hardly even debatable at this point. Chicago’s top 5 for College, Law, and Business, and top 10 for Med School. Your idea that Chicago can never be in the top 5 school is laughable; it already IS top 5. You’re simply peeved that Duke has not had, and never will have, the success that Chicago is experiencing. </p>
<p>The reason Chicago has had so much success is that it already had all the right pieces - it just needed a good administration, which it never had. Now that Chicago has a fantastic administration, it’ll pretty easily join the ranks of HYPSM in the next 5 years. Duke, however, has never had the right pieces in place - it doesn’t have the powerful alumni that Chicago has, it doesn’t have the elite grad schools that Chicago has, its students don’t have the passion that Chicago students have, and its professors aren’t even close to being as renowned as Chicago’s professors.</p>