Prestige of UChicago

MD_Mom_1
Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:06:23 +0000

My daughter went to a prep school with a fairly high population of wealthy kids. She looked that the kids who wanted to go to the Ivies and decided she didn’t want to be around that type of kid. Kind of a screwy way to choose colleges. But she felt as though one of the big lessons she learned at her prep school was that wealthy, privileged kids don’t have to follow the rules, and she wasn’t really interested with spending the next four years with a large percentage of those kids. I am certain that Chicago also has its share of rich kids, but for some reason, it appealed to her where HPY did not. She did not want to look at Harvard or Yale; she did tour Princeton, but did not apply. She got in to Chicago and then followed the money to Pitt. You just cannot categorize kids and make any sense of why they do what they do.