<p>“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:
- 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
- location- but who would turn down Harvard because of location?
- 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</p>
<p>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.
- no business or engineering programs which are hot for high schoolers
- when people apply to a dream school “for the hell of it,” it is MIT, HYP, not UChi
- no common app, which I have seen has a bigger influence than it should due to the laziness of us seniors
- no one at my school has ever heard of Chicago, which is true many places and possibly goes along with #2
- 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</p>
<p>…so I guess I am sticking up for Chicago a little with those acceptance rate issues</p>