<p>What is wrong with you people? No one is arguing that Chicago isn’t an excellent university-it most surely is. The problem most other CCers have with this school is that except for Cue7, every other Chicago student/alum brags about how intellectual the school is and how much more pre-professional the rest of its peer schools are.</p>
<p>I can’t speak for Penn but there are plenty of students at my alma mater Duke and my cousin’s alma mater Princeton who go on to great careers in academia. Out of the 15 or so Physics majors at Duke over the last couple of years that I know, 6 of them are getting PhDs (Harvard, Yale, CalTech, Princeton, Georgia Tech, and Illinois) respectively.
All of the top 15 American universities (the 8 Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Chicago, Northwestern, and Duke) are a lot more similar than they are different.</p>
<p>Chicago is no more of a great place if you want to pursue a career in academia than Northwestern or Brown is.</p>
<p>If Deloitte is recruiting on campus again, then that is a positive development for the U of C for sure. That McKinsey excuse is probably the most stupid thing I’ve heard–so all of those Harvard grads that work there aren’t intellectual?</p>