Sell Me on UChicago, Please!

luminalcoin8
Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:20:06 +0000

@gonnabefamous It’s funny that you had that experience during your overnight, because I had the exact opposite problem. I stayed in Max and my host was a pretty strong partier who left with all of his friends to go to the frats sometime in the evening, and the ones who were left behind drank generously in the rooms. I didn’t meet any students who were “quirky” or “intellectual.” In fact, until I decided to go check out the Quiz Bowl later in the evening it seemed like I was at DePaul or UIUC (which was kind of disappointing because I was attracted to UChicago by its unique reputation). Reading your description of yourself, I’d say we are fairly similar, so our perspectives wouldn’t be too different. Our disparate experiences demonstrate how much of a spectrum there is at the school and that the people you met aren’t representative of more than a fraction of the student body, IMHO