U of C Ranked #5 in 2012 US News Rankings

<p>Other issues (thinking about it some more):</p>

<p>– Lots of students don’t like the idea of the Core.
– Few parents who are alumni, and few of them want to send their kids there. (I know several alumni parents, but zero legacy kids. And Chicago was really at its low point in terms of size and pleasantness during our generation, so the number of alumni is small and the risk that they don’t think fondly of the university is high.)</p>