<p>Ummm . . . The University of Chicago is where Harry met Sally, where Nichols met May, where Leopold met Loeb, where Black met Scholes, where South America met Liberal Economics, and where many women who wished they hadn’t met Tucker Max (an honor shared with Duke, to be sure). It’s where Indiana Jones taught archaeology, where Moses Herzog taught Humanities, where Leo Strauss taught World Domination, and where Barack Obama taught Constitutional Law. </p>
<p>Granted, that’s not Rory Gilmore, or Harold & Kumar, and Chicago doesn’t (unlike Stanford, Georgetown, Duke, and Northwestern) have a constant Division I sports presence. But if you’ve never heard a reference to the University of Chicago, you haven’t been listening.</p>
<p>By the way, I don’t live so far from Northern New Jersey, and the University of Chicago has a perfectly good profile here, honest it does. Not as good as Harvard or Stanford, but fine. Its problem, such as it is, is distance, neighborhood, and no-fun reputation.</p>