The University of Chicago

Date: Jun 17 2010
Major: Anthropology (This Major's Salary over time)
Really good university and good education, however its kind of sh****ly run. Why the h**l are our quads so pretty but our bathrooms look like crap, they are worse than public bathrooms. Grade deflation is a reality here it sucks. I know lots of people who get screwed over for graduate school as a result of it. Like not being able to go to a good law school because they have a low gpa. Its kind of stupid of the University of Chicago to deflate grades when their peers don't. People in the real world don't really care that grades here are deflated. If you have a guy from Harvard with a 3.7 they would rather have him than the guy from U of C with a 3.5. I feel like we should get a .3 boost but the school doesn't think so. They are high on their moral pedastels. They always tell you everyone knows u of c, they dont and even if they did you are seen as being someone as good as from a peer ivy not better, with that in mind go to the peer ivy. People here are so insecure that they wear shirts that say if i wanted an a i would have gone to harvard, i bet you most of them would have gone if they could. I would have. Don't talk about other schools here bc people here will automatically feel uncomfortable and say that Uchicago is the best and most noble. They want to believe that they are special.

Only recently has U of C began to change its policies because it has awful alumni loyalty, granted there are loyal alumni it is no where near the level of loyalty found at ivies or other peer institutions. The U of C has changed by embracing a larger student body (more tuition, higher selectivity, higher USNWR rank) that doesn't fit in there and telling them that it will in overly idealistic brochures. If they send you publications its not because you are special as they imply/say it is because they want your tuition money, and prestige. Don't fall for any crap about schools being a special match, when you apply apply to the best and see where you can go.

There is this misconception that people here are intellectual. Not everyone here is intellectual, there are some intellectual types, but a lot of pseudo intellectuals and straight up b****s. The pseudo intellectuals are usually the hipsters. Prepare for an onslaught of annoying short, ugly, rich, judgmental, jewish, hipster b****s who come from the upper east side of NYC or say that they do. I guess this might be worse at princeton, columbia, and penn, but its pretty bad here too. People from NYC here are usaully ***holes. There are a lot of defensive people here who are quite combative, they are kind of freaks too. For a school that should be intellectual they are very closed minded and snobby as f**k. It is as though all of them have the same opinion on politics, and don't you dare deviate from it or else you might get called a facist. There are some people that are so incredibly socially retarded that I truly wonder how they function at all. They are in desperate need of a beating. It would have a positive effect on them. There are also many other peer schools where you could be itellectual. Uchicago does not have a monopoly on the life of the mind. Please don't idealize this school. Its so damn expensive if you get into any elite school go to the one with the best financial aid.

Most of what I say could probobly be applied to any elite school. I guess you should just choose the one that annoys you the least.