<p>"Chicago can do a better job of broadening the goals of its place as a training ground. "
Oh, I totally agree! But that requires a real change in the mindset of the profs., as well as the administration. As long as the thinking behind the “core” is it is primarily designed to prepare young fertile minds for graduate school and academia [which is why the College was created in the first place, and Chicago loves to pay homage to it’s history], I think there will be a lack willingness to offer different UG options that are widely available at so many other colleges. Chicago has a very anti-pre-professional slant at the UG level. Look how reluctant they have been to establish a school of Engineering! and the thought of an undergraduate school of business? furgetaboutit.</p>