UChicago Accepts 13.38% Earl Action

UChicagoGrad
Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:19:47 +0000

Yes, the more I hear about why-would-I-want-to-go-to-college-just-to-prepare-for-a-job attitudes, the more they annoy me. The economy has changed a lot in the last 5 years, and a lot of people don’t have the luxury of dropping up to $250,000 on an education without putting what-comes-next front and center. And for what it’s worth, I was very much not a pre-professional.

But it’s a little rude to judge your classmates for pre-professionalism, just as rude as it would be for them to judge you for wanting to have a “laid-back” college experience. One of the many things I loved about UChicago was that it’s almost utopian (compared to the rest of the world) in terms of acceptance and tolerance. And that extended far beyond just religion and ethnicity: it also extended to political views and career goals. Maybe it’s because you’re all “in this together”… against the core curriculum. Marx sucks.

Unfortunately, academically, the school is not “laid back,” unless you don’t particularly care about having a GPA that doesn’t start with a 3.