Truth in advertising?

chicagoboy12
Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:31:58 +0000

“If I wanted an A I would have gone to Harvard.” I liked what the author had to say about that. Clearly, if someone was accepted at Harvard, they would almost certainly not go to the U of C instead. Some reasons people may turn down a school would be:

1. Financial circumstance - however from my own experience and also from what I have read, Harvard’s financial aid would be no hinderance, especially compared to Chicago’s

2. location- but who would turn down Harvard because of location?

3. atmosphere - someone may claim that Chicago has a more intellectual atmosphere, but certainly someone could find an atmosphere at Harvard that is equally if not more intellectual

Also, the part about Chicago having high acceptance rates:
I have thought of several reasons why Chicago is still selective, yet does have a high acceptance rate.

1. no business or engineering programs which are hot for high schoolers

2. when people apply to a dream school “for the hell of it,” it is MIT, HYP, not UChi

3. no common app, which I have seen has a bigger influence than it should due to the laziness of us seniors

4. no one at my school has ever heard of Chicago, which is true many places and possibly goes along with #2

5. does NOT have early decision, meaning that UChi has to accept MORE students because they do not have that guaranteed enrollment that ED schools have

…so I guess I am sticking up for Chicago a little with those acceptance rate issues