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spikebrennan t1_jaxtbhi wrote

Reply to comment by AdLess636 in Yield rate for Top 150 US Universities [OC] by Roughneck16

University of Chicago has dramatically climbed this particular leaderboard over the past 10 years or so. They used to be high prestige but very low yield - essentially, they had a difficult time making themselves anyone’s first choice.

That seems to have changed.

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Bayesian11 t1_jb436qg wrote

U of Chicago competes with the best colleges in the nation, but who wants to move to Chicago if Boston is an option?

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Roughneck16 OP t1_jb465vy wrote

My buddy got his PhD there. He said it's less stressful if you live close enough to campus to fall under the campus police security blanket. Otherwise, it's scary.

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welmoe t1_jcw1gny wrote

> they had a difficult time making themselves anyone’s first choice.

Had a friend who went there for undergrad and even before he started he knew about the infamous saying of "the place where fun goes to die".

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