The "New" UChicago

etondad
Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:48:29 +0000

There may be another reason why Chicago may be less pre-academic–and it is far from alone --Harvard has noticed the number of students going to graduate schools decline as well for example–as colleges admit students for whom Chicago (or Harvard or Columbia or…or…) is a huge step up from their socio-economic status as they are first generation college or URM (or both) the “prize” of the acceptance is the potential to leave their lower or lower-middle class life for a more prosperous future for themselves and their families. Given that such a economic change will occur in the professions and business careers, it stands to reason that such students would see the desire for economic security to have a higher value than classes which did not actively recruit talented students from all sectors of society.
It is height of naivet