Premed at UChicago

JHS
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:29:07 +0000

newmassdad – I’ll grant you that in your particular area of interest, medical school, I haven’t seen any data. On the other hand, I have several of those anecdotal data points which indicate, at least in the sub-Rhodes Scholar part of the spectrum, that pre-med counseling and support is not among the college’s areas of excellence.

On the law school side, Cue7 has produced fairly solid data, since a number of top law schools, including the University of Chicago, provide information on their students’ undergraduate institutions. And, in the law school world, there is a clear-enough hierarchy so that even if you only have data from 4-5 schools, that may actually matter (as opposed to medical school, where the entire field is much flatter). It’s not definitive, but it convinced me there was something to talk about.

I really don’t get what your problem is. You don’t seem to like any sort of criticism of the University of Chicago, except for your own regular criticism of its failure to acknowledge outstanding undergraduates sufficiently. To each his own.