<p>Yes but in large part if you’re motivated you can educate yourself. You don’t need to be spoonfed. And it’s not like Harvard is a second rate education. You can, for a large part, impact your education. You can’t change where your degree comes from. Most people who sell out to the Ivy League know this. </p>
<p>And I wish people would stop acting like UChi is the Virgin Mary of academic purity. Law School and GSB are excellent schools, which ironically, also happen to be professional schools. So it’s not like the faculty isn’t involved in the culture of professionalism.</p>
<p>I don’t think Zimmer would do that. One, he seems committed to making sure Chicago retains its uniqueness. And two, O’Neil I think has more say over that. Maybe I’m wrong, but I feel like some of the things the college is doing (like going common app) are sort of “finding direction by misdirection” if you know what I mean. They’re playing the game a little bit (because national recognition is just a good thing in general), but at the same time remaining to themselves true. I mean what’s he going to do? Scrap the core? They’ll sink his body to Lake Michigan. </p>
<p>I think it’s more like a “Hey, you people, we are Chicago and we ROCK and you need to know about us.” But then again maybe I’m just a hopeless optimist.</p>