College visit: University of Chicago
Our next stop on Confluence College Admissions Consulting's spring 2024 tour is the University of Chicago, whose tree-lined, architecturally magnificent 217-acre campus sits in the eclectic South Side community of Hyde Park, surrounded by charming neighborhoods on three sides and Lake Michigan on the other. The main quads are steel-gray Gothic, gargoyles and all, and other campus buildings were designed by luminaries such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, and Mies van der Rohe. The Regenstein Library, known colloquially on campus as "The Reg," is a national treasure.
From a curricular standpoint, the University of Chicago is fully committed to the view that a solid foundation in the liberal arts is the best foundation for future work or academic study. Thus, music students study musicology, but also learn calculus, as part of a robust Common Core that is among the most comprehensive sets of distribution requirements of any college or university in the nation. Students call the curriculum "intense."
The University of Chicago's main academic claim to fame is its economics department, which is internationally known as a bastion of free-market economics and has produced numerous Nobel laureates such as Milton Friedman, Robert Fogel, current faculty members Douglas Diamond and Michael Kremer, and 2023 winner Claudia Goldin. Other popular and high-quality majors include environmental and urban studies, global studies, biological sciences, mathematics, public policy studies, and English.
The University of Chicago is pricey: tuition alone for 2024-25 is over $67,000, with total costs that can exceed $93,000. Paradoxically, though, UChicago is a popular choice among my lower-income clients because it is need-blind, and the university meets 100% of demonstrated financial need in the form of grants, meaning no student loans. The tough part is getting accepted, as UChicago accepts only 6% of its applicants.
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