Student review [#103652] for Applied Mathematics
at The University of Chicago - UChicago

UChicago can be very frustrating at times, be it because of the insane amount of business bros (who will make you wonder if you should join GS every other day) or because of the torturous math classes, but I see way too many upsides to it. UChicago is challenging–in the way I’d like to think that anyone who got in would enjoy it; the core curriculum is insanely interesting (I took humanities, social sciences and physics with amazing professors) and the exit opportunities are just great. However, these things tend to class with each other frequently. You cannot take challenging classes if you want a GPA that will get you into a hedge fund, and you cannot want a hedge fund job if you are trying to get a bio phd, and in either case you probably cannot take the interesting classes on Aristotle or Camus, because you always need to think about fulfilling your requirements, and the core, and your econ major, and your pre-med track. It will make you take many hard decisions and read a lot and do a lot of pets–but if you think that this is the type of struggle that makes you grow and know yourself better, go for it! I will warn, there was an unexpected amount of business culture around and a super high dependency on frat parties for freshmen, which I couldn’t judge from the “quirky university” branding, and you will probably feel sad after spending too many hours in the reg and getting a bad grade in winter quarter. But I think I take a lot of fulfilling lessons from these challenges.