I've been there a lot in my past. I just heard some bad things about chicago U

idk man maybe i shouldn't make stereotypes but i feel you have to be at least kind of liberal to go to boalt it is berekley

It's not the city you are hesitant about anyways, since NW is on your interest list.

South Chicago isn't as bad as people say it is.

Irishman, curious, why "too old" for NU?

Just how liberal does one have to be? What are we talking here? Drugs?

im from the south chicago area and its not that bad but my beef with hyde park is that it is boring not dangerous

and as to boalt you at least have to believe in the redistribution of wealth with no real lawyer should believe in haha

Well, damn... This kind of soured me on what had previously been one of my top choice schools (as well as the only one in the T14 I'm likely to get into). How depressing.

Vanderbilt, here I come (?).

Well I'm from a former communist country so that should boost much chances there, shoudn't it?

your gpa is 3.1, are you in a position to pick and choose? 180?

everyone's bagging on Cornell. As a current Californian who grew up in Florida, I think its location sucks pretty bad, but I like that it's very small, and that it's supposedly harder work. It also has one of the best CS departments, which I know doesn't interest most people but I want a MSCS, Meng, or maybe even PhD in CS as well as my JD, so this matters to me.

haha, what?

Just taking a stab at this one, but I think he means the student population is too old. I'm just guessing because that is the reason I'm not considering Northwestern. I want a younger student body, since I'll be straight out of undergrad.

Hmm... NO interest in:

Stanford/Berkeley - no interest in California, too far away from my family

Michigan - It's, well... in Michigan.

Duke - never had an interest in that one, for pretty much no reason at all.

Northwestern - too 'old', plus I will have no WE.

i have no desire to ever live or go to school in the northeast, which would take out most of them... all but stanford, berkley, uva, georgetown and duke. and i went to duke for undergrad so i wouldnt want to go there for law school. im pretty tired of it (lol yes i had the same geography limitations for undergrad)

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U Chicago, Boalt, Columbia, Northwestern, U Michigan, U Penn, U Virginia

Berkeley - I don't plan on staying in CA, so for me it's Stanford or bust on the West Coast
Cornell - What's a Cornell?
Georgetown - too many grads saturating a very competitive DC market
NYU - I'm not a fan of NYC schools, and in any case I like Columbia a little bit more
Northwestern - has no real pull in my preferred markets, plus it plays second fiddle to Chicago.

IDILL_E, with 533 posts, I doubt you're new here. Still, in case you don't know ... a quick look back at his old posts will reveal that kurama really doesn't know what he's talking about (and, for this reason, has created a number of enemies here). Definitely don't take his posts too seriously because chances are he's misinformed.

We do have graded LRW (along with Duke). Frankly, though, I think this turns out to be a pretty good thing, and the curve is very tight in that class anyway. As for studying, I can't imagine that that old survey is accurate. That's more difficult to prove. In any event, Cornellians certainly have room for a social life - many people go out multiple times a week. I'd be happy to provide further insight if you want.

Galahad85,

I suppose this can apply to you too:

" ... a quick look back at his old posts will reveal that kurama really doesn't know what he's talking about (and, for this reason, has created a number of enemies here). Definitely don't take his posts too seriously because chances are he's misinformed.

We do have graded LRW (along with Duke). Frankly, though, I think this turns out to be a pretty good thing, and the curve is very tight in that class anyway. As for studying, I can't imagine that that old survey is accurate. That's more difficult to prove. In any event, Cornellians certainly have room for a social life - many people go out multiple times a week. I'd be happy to provide further insight if you want."

LOL....lack of sports? I guess someone forget to let ESPN know since the very first website they launched dedicated to a specific city was espnchicago.com. Our teams might suck (for now at least) but as a sport's town Chicago is #1.

I think he was referring to the lack of sports at the University.

That's what I thought too.. Does U of C even have a sports program?

Good to hear, thanks.

What about the weather in Ithaca? Is it really as miserable as people say?

They're part of the UAA (aka the Nerdy Nine) with other non-athletic schools.