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Originally Posted by jlist
Dear Econcurious: I am sorry to hear that your friend is not having fun here at Chicago. Please let this person know that s/he can always come and talk to me about research or their other issues.
On to placements. I would be shocked if your statement "the quality of academic placements from UChicago is not that good, barely comparable to top 10-15 schools" is correct. I have summarized our statistics very clearly in my post--with data from 1994-present to back those facts.
If you truly believe that the top 10-15 schools are placing 28% of their academic placements in top 20 schools, then you should write a paper about the large number of missing professors in the top 20 schools.
Of course, my mind can be changed with data--maybe I am wrong. I look forward to receiving the data behind which you are making your inference.
Best,
John
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Dear johnlist: i know for sure that in 2006, the best placement from chicago was of natalia ramondo at UTexas-Austin and that's not even top 20. there were 2 other students that were placed at the Stockholm School of Economics, which is comparable to top 30 maybe. And these were the best placements for the year! Having in mind that Chicago graduates 25-30 students per year, it seems like for 2006, 0% of them got a placement in a top 20 school. in 2005, the best placements were of Salvator Navarro at Wisconsin and of Nathaniel Baum-Snow at Brown, which I guess could count as 2 in a top 20, which is still far from 28% of students in top 20 schools. in the same year, there were a couple of students placed at BU (top 25). Dear, john list of you have more detailed data, please, feel free to contradict me. It seems like for 2 consecutive years chicago didn't place its students well, which would seem worrisome to some people.
thank you!
-econcurious