Premed at UChicago

Cue7
Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:59:59 +0000

mermaid123456: Glad to hear you’re enjoying Duke, and I hope you’re looking forward to school starting back up again soon! I’m sorry to hear the pre-med advisors were so opaque when you visited Chicago.

Newmassdad: Glad to see you’re back on this message board and continuing to ignore how much I tried to qualify all of my previous posts on this topic (e.g. I went to Chicago years ago, it may be different now… take all of this with a grain of salt, etc.). Please also note that, despite my supposed negativity about Chicago’s law and med placement, I’ve raved about Chicago’s placement for PhD programs and business school placement. I still stick behind all that - if you’re into a career as an academic or feel like an MBA may be for you, Chicago competes with anyone. For law and medicine, I still think there are schools out there that place better. Newmassdad, I hardly think this kind of assertion is misguided or negative, but I can’t really argue this point much more with you. For those of you that are interested, in past threads, I’ve posted the law placement at Yale, Princeton, etc. If all of you current Chicago students think Chicago’s law placement is now at this level, then I’ll be happy to note that my alma mater has improved significantly on this front.

Either way, what mermaid123456 mentioned above is what frustrates me about pre-professional advising at Chicago. They hold all of their useful information and statistics so close to the vest, and are generally just too opaque. Combine this with the general negativity surrounding pre-med at Chicago (as mermaid123456 observed), and it makes for a very puzzling atmosphere. Maybe it’s all a big cover-up hiding the fact that Chicago pre-meds are having the time of their lives while all gaining acceptances to Harvard and Hopkins Med. Somehow, though, I doubt that.

As I’ve said many times before, what frustrates me the most is Chicago not having more information publicly available. It doesn’t make any sense to me. Perhaps I’m too cynical, but when I see such a lack of transparency, it makes me begin to doubt the strength of the placement (in comparison to peer schools).