- PROS
- beautiful, fantastic, gorgeous campus (it looks like a castle)
- amazing and fun academic environment
- awesome housing system (like Hogwarts, lol?)
- easy to get to downtown Chicago
- tons of internship and research opportunities
- relatively safe campus (Hyde Park) - just use common sense and don't wander off!
- strong in humanities, social sciences
- not a "competitive" environment - students thrive on cooperation and collaboration!
- for those who seek intellectual challenge
- CONS
- far away from home
- expensive tuition fee (~ $60,000)
- dad will probably refuse to pay for it
- plane tickets
- expensive living expenses (tax rate = 9.75%)
- strangers
- snow and ice (spoiled Californian right here!)
- OTHER
- small student body
- emphasis on GE courses
- very small teacher:student ratio
- discussion-based classes
- mandatory for first years to live on campus
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- MY GENERAL OPINION
- This is basically the school I've always dreamed of. There aren't too many people. It's not a giant crowd all riled up with artificial school spirit. It has the academic environment I feel will fill up my needs and overflow into an intellectual challenge I have yet to explore.
- Update: 8/11/12 -- UChicago will always, always hold a dear place in my heart. I know about a year ago around this time I would be heartbroken just at the thought of being rejected. That still holds true, but I know that Chicago can wait for me. At the moment I see UChicago more as a place for me as a grad student, although I'd still love to be able to experience it as an undergrad (it's much too expensive, though). I will still apply this fall, so let's just see what happens.
jul 29 2011 ∞
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