UChicago vs. Swarthmore

zztao
Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:53:02 +0000

Hey, I am really having a hard time deciding between these two schools!
Both have amazing undergrad educations (Swat was ranked #5 overall by us news & chicago was ranked #1 by princeton review & us news)

Swat has a small, gorgeous campus, and gives tons of attention to students…
but Chicago, despite having an overwhelming 9000 grad students compared to 4400 undergrad, is in a big city chicago & has bigger campus w/ lots of ppl which is what I originally wanted (I know swat is near philly but sometimes I heard it was hard to get out of the “Swarthmore Bubble”)

I want to major in economics, eventually business (maybe joint degree w/ business & law, we will see)

Both don’t have very high GPAs; but arguably chicago has been heard of more at the myriad companies, and therefore understand the low GPA…i dunno, I would like to go to a place that would help secure a great full-time job

my ultimate goal is to go ivy grad; on top 50 feeder school list to ivy/top grad schools swat was ranked #10 & Chicago #14 (yet they noted 11 got into penn MBA which is awesome)

Please give me your advice!! Thanks :)