Dear Econcurious: I am disappointed by your post. You have listed two years of results that attempt to make your case, but then I find that you had some very important information in hand that you decided to withhold. Your post on 6-24-07 at 1:14am pasted below shows that you knew how well we did in placing students this past year--you even noted yourself in that post that UC performed well.
Why are you ignoring this information now? There are peaks and valleys in everyone's placements, and that is why UC gives long-run averages. I guess some would just advertise this most recent year because we did so well. I refuse to partake in such games.
I need to check your claims with Julie Less to see about placements those years, but again, if you have data that shows that "the quality of academic placements from UChicago is not that good, barely comparable to top 10-15 schools" please send it along and I will gladly admit that I am wrong. Noting that UC had a few bad years in no way validates your claim. What did the other top 10-15 do in these years? What about the adjacent years?
Also, another poster asked for more individual placements. I have sent that request to Julie Less.
Best,
John
06-24-2007, 01:14 AM #
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In fact, I find it kind of silly that you keep babbling about the University of Chicago so much. I mean, it's a great department and such, but look at their placements and compare them to other universities. I believe they sent something like 3 people as professors into major research universities this year. I believe there was one going to U Mich, one CU-Boulder, and one was something else. That's it. This was out of graduating class of over 20 people, which doesn't sound very encouraging.
Not that I am a big fan of the UChicago, but this year I heard that actually they placed one guy in Princeton, one in Northwestern, one in UPenn, one in UMichigan and a few others in top 25 schools. Better placement than most other top 5-10 schools this year except for Harvard. Not bad!
Otherwise, I agree with all that apropos said. Also, just being in a top school wouldn't make you necessarily happy. How do you know you'll like it? Just because you'll get a brand name degree IF YOU MAKE IT? Maybe you'll be happier and more productive at a lower-ranked school.