<p>I agree with almost everything JHS says on CC, but the comments about attitudes toward pre-meds at Chicago are wide of the mark. Chicago people generally celebrate high achievement, even when it does not involve getting a Ph.D, and those who aspire to professions are not disdained by their peers. Unless, of course, they are in the small cadre of obnoxious twerps who sit in the front of class and try to brown-nose the teacher. Hopefully, the regular people at Penn don’t much care for the twerps, either.</p>