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by HuShifang 1484 days ago
I'd wait a few years on Chicago -- my impression is that they've been undergoing some pretty profound cultural shifts regarding admissions and grading, i.e. their rigor is getting more performative and less real (and it was always at least a little performative, or at least, rooted in being just a little gratuitously mean).

EDIT: Not coincidentally, it was an admin brought in from Yale who got this ball rolling.

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True, all of the top schools have a problem with either attracting or nurturing unethical clowns of blockbuster proportion.