<p>I asked my son (a current student) about this inferiority complex thing vis a vis other top elite schools. He said, nobody he knows feels that way. and they are all pretty happy at U Chicago. IN fact, he said, “we don’t really talk about other schools. Why? we are happy where we are”. </p>
<p>He was rejected by Harvard. So I asked, do you wish you had been accepted at Harvard? He said, well, I would have been happy there also in a different way. I can adapt and do well in a lot of different environments. But now that I know what I am getting at U Chicago, I feel in fact that it was a good thing that they rejected me and sent me to U Chicago. He joked that he should send a thank you note to Harvard for having rejected him :)</p>
<p>So, for whatever its worth, this is the view from a current student, and he does not even seem to be an outlier.</p>