Northwestern vs. UChicago for premed

neltharion
Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:36:52 +0000

^ My high school disagrees with you.

If you were ranked in the top fifteen - even if you didn’t say anything, even if you yourself didn’t know your GPA - the top ten students would know your average to the hundredth, if not the thousandth, decimal place. And they would talk about it all the time.

This was incredibly annoying in high school. I don’t even know how they got the information, but they had it.

In fact, when I mentioned to one of my friends (who is matriculating this fall at UChicago) that it’s somewhat taboo to talk about your GPA here, she replied: “Really? That’s kind of weird. o__O”

Which just goes to show … something. Possibly that my high school was a huge pressure cooker.