<p>This is quite an interesting exchange.</p>
<p>I love the whole Intellectual vs. Smart/Intelligent as I truly believe they are two completely different things.</p>
<p>One thing that troubles me is that people seem to typify and stereotype all Chicago students. To say everyone is a regurgitate-Marx-elitists who enjoys remembering passages from Wikipedia is a little extreme, and quite frankly not true. I have to side with Unalove here. Sure she might bleed Maroon and be a little biased towards U of C, but that doesnt mean her analysis is tragically flawed. She obviously has interacted with all different types of people, and to say they are all pretentious and insincere is sort of sad quite frankly.</p>
<p>At any school you are going to find those type of people, so they do exist at U of C too. But I have seen the types of people that go on to U of C and HYPS from my school. And quite frankly the ones who end up at U of C were more sincere and passionate than anyone else. Obviously that is just my experiences, but atleast I have something tangible to support it</p>