How much is UChicago worth?

texaspg
Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:35:04 +0000

I have nt gone to either of these two schools and dont have a kid in college yet so dont consider me an expert. If you were into pure science (as opposed to applied) you dont even need to go to college based on all the famous people in those areas. This home schooled kid won the intel prize in math solving some square root problem and is going to Harvard this year which makes all college education irrelevant for him.

You need to go deeper into what your interest is in and determine if there are some faculty members that you truly want to work with in those specific areas in either school. Chicago has stayed away from engineering in order to concentrate on science and liberal arts at the undergrad level and may be that helps them with the focus. If you enjoyed writing find X or solving some of those postcard puzzles they keep sending out, may be Chicago is the place for you.