Prestige of UChicago

BiggOrangeFan
Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:59:17 +0000

I applied to two Ivies, Yale and Brown. Looking back I probably would have applied to Princeton too. Of all the Ivies, those are the only three I would even consider applying to. Harvard doesn’t appeal to me. I’ve heard, from even Harvard kids, that their focus is very graduate based and they’re not at all undergrad friendly. The only Ivy that I applied to that would even rival Chicago in my interest is Yale. Honestly had I been accepted, I’m not sure which I would have chosen. Of course, I didn’t get into Yale or Brown so…

The point though is that if I was magically offered admission to Harvard today, I’d consider it for about 10 seconds then say no and still choose Chicago. Unless of course for some reason, financially speaking, I wasn’t able to afford Chicago…which may be a very real possibility.

There are many things I love about Chicago that I don’t think Harvard offers. I won’t go into detail unless you guys really want me to.

But whether by default or not…I’d still, like I said, choose Chicago over Harvard any day. The fact that I haven’t been offered admission to Harvard doesn’t make that statement any less credible.