UChicago Accepts 13.38% Earl Action

tawarren95
Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:03:29 +0000

“Brown is one of the lesser “Ivys” that students tend to apply to who have really no idea what they are really looking for.” Ugh, really? Just…please. Don’t.

Also, someone else said that the Careers office is getting their act together, and I agree. It is attracting more pre-professional students (which is becoming a large majority in the application pool, if it isn’t already; I’ve met a couple ‘I’m going to college to learn’ people through visits, but most of the people I’ve met have some sort of career aspiration or plan after they graduate- even the intellectuals), but it’s not becoming a pre-professional school, in my opinion. At least, not yet. Right now, they are finding a way to let the love of knowledge coexist peacefully with pre-professional options that were once weak or nonexistent. I think the student body itself is changing more than the actual school, and maybe that’s what’s “scaring” people.

I do think that UChicago’s problem with attracting pre-pro students is the grade deflation. It has been noted on other threads that UofC at one point was “Princetonized,” but if kids did their research, they’d realize this isn’t a problem. Top med schools (I won’t speak for other programs I know less about) recognize UofC’s grading system and respect a 3.5, the average premed’s GPA at UofC, the same as they’d respect a 3.7 at lets say, JHU.

Also, status isn’t everything. @Hevydevy, what do you mean by 'laid back, liberal “Hippie-Ivy” status? As in a more relaxed atmosphere than other Ivies? Maybe the social aspects are, but the academics are still challenging and up to par with its peers. What exactly are you looking for in a college?