Premed at UChicago

newmassdad
Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:26:04 +0000

Cue7 is hardly the final authority on this topic. Anyone who looks at Cue7’s posts should wonder if the poster had an axe to grind, or a grudge against UofC, because of the huge number of claims, guesstimates and such all made in the absence of any data.

Truth is that UofC is stingy with regard to data that would allow us to draw informed conclusions. Take GPA for example. Street lore has it that UofC’s average GPA is much lower than at peer institutions. Since UofC does not release any official stats, it is easy to draw any conclusion you want. However, at convocation two years ago, I used the time between names (1000 names being read takes a while, especially when your kid is in the last dozen or so…) to count the number graduating with honors. about 70%! This means the median (and probably the average) GPA is well above 3.25. We don’t know how much higher, but it should be quite a bit. BTW, the following year, another parent did a count with similar results and conclusions.