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<p>I think all three of those schools have multiple personalities, among which is a sizeable cohort of very hardcore academic types who are very engaged in academic pursuits at a high level.</p>
<p>Those three schools are a bit like an elephant. It kinda depends which part the blind men are feeling. You could describe each school as pre-professional in focus and be right. Turn around and look at a different part and you’ll see UChicago. That is true at any school to some degree, of course. But most schools don’t have 14% of their total graduates getting PhDs like Princeton and Harvard.</p>