<p>I’m wondering likewise. Lakerskingdom, a lot of people that go to Chicago turned down Ivies to go there, including those that you have been accepted to. I just sent in my “no thanks” form to Penn and couldn’t be happier. Uh-oh… now we’re on smiliar playing fields, aren’t we?
UChicago is the kind of environment that is right for a lot of people and isn’t right for some others, including a lot of kids that can and do get in to Ivy League schools like me, Princeton girl, and the hundreds of other kids currently on campus who turned down Ivy League schools or Stanford/Yale/MIT/Whatever to attend. If you’re an Ivy League person, good for you and your ability to get in and be happy there- we’re not saying that’s good or bad, but we’re definitely not branding ourselves with the Ivy label simply to say we go there; we’re picking the school that is right, that we feel will give us the best education FOR US. That kind of choice doesn’t deserve someone to come in, bash it with a name like Ivy or anything else, and run away. Chicago isn’t the kind of place for you, and that’s fine.</p>