Prestige of UChicago

JHS
Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:15:12 +0000

Of course I don’t go to Chicago, I just pay a lot of tuition there.
One of my Chicago students applied to Harvard, the other had no interest in Harvard.
The atmosphere at Chicago is much more intellectual than at Harvard. Chicago produces, proportionately, significantly more PhDs than Harvard. (Yale is closer.) But professor for professor and student for student, Harvard matches up with Chicago just fine, and there are plenty of people who go to Harvard for the education, not just the power trip. Harvard is also fabulously wealthy, attracts great students, and has far more student-friendly financial aid policies. Anyone who thinks that students choose Harvard over Chicago solely because of parental pressure is engaging in wishful thinking. That’s not much of a dis of Chicago, though.