Chicago has very good placement this year.
Why is Chicago so hated?
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Chicago has very good placement this year.
5 out of 45 got great jobs. Is that very good? The denominator is huge.
Denominator is more like 25. Read the other threads before s**t slinging.
Sure it is...
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Why so many Chicago students end up in industry?
Strong reputation (many econ consulting firms were founded by Chicago grads), hence more and better industry options than other HRMs.
Harvard/MIT/Stanford/Princeton industry placements >>> Chicago industry placements
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^ I wondered about this. Makes me respect Chicago more, and the complainers less. Am I wrong?
If the American city is increasingly post-industrial, with the attendant decline of industrial jobs (Wilson 1996) and the increased importance of the service economy, then the way we think of urban space must necessarily adopt the perspective that neighborhoods are sites of consumption as well as production. That said, just because the factories are gone does not mean we can abandon thinking of cities is productive spaces�it just means that when we must think of them as spaces that create products to consume, one of those products is the city itself (Greenberg 2008), and more particularly the neighborhood.
With this in mind, I propose that an important social location to look at if one wants to understand this process is behind the counter of the neighborhood storefront. Commercial spaces in neighborhoods are important because they often come to stand in for how people understand what neighborhoods are�they contribute to what Deener (2007) calls �the structure and symbol of neighborhood life.� Merchants offer a unique connection to place that makes them especially sensitive to changes in a neighborhood. Moreover, they occupy a social location where economics and culture explicitly intersect, as they must pursue their own economic interests while also attending to their own cultural commitments, as well as those of their customers. While conducting prior research in Wicker Park, I discovered the extent to which neighborhood merchants were attuned to, and anxious about, the neighborhood�s reputation for hipness, and where their stores fit in within that broader reputational context. For my dissertation, I study these figures�merchants�in a wide variety of reputational contexts, in order to understand how merchants understand and respond to their neighborhood�s reputations, a salient fact in their daily lives. Merchants are key players in the gentrifying neighborhoods, offering locations that not only provide goods and services and bring money into a neighborhood, but that are potentially freighted with symbolism about what kind of place a neighborhood is, or aspires to be.
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My central question is �What social processes do the perpetuation and/or disruption of certain kinds of neighborhood reputations inform, and do they contribute to inequality and stratification in urban environments?� In particular, how do processes related to neighborhood reputation inform neighborhood development, migration patterns, and differential allocation of scarce resources, at both the state and private level? In order to answer this central theoretical question, I address a related empirical question: how do neighborhood merchants reckon with the reputations of their neighborhoods, and how does it affect their decision-making? I am particularly interested in the role of merchants in these neighborhoods because they operate at sites of intersection of commercial and non-commercial interests. While we might expect them to be profit-oriented, merchants are also socially embedded in neighborhoods in ways that can create other obligations and commitments beyond profit, and I am interested in how neighborhood reputation influences their attitudes and decision-making. Do they make efforts to live up to a reputation? Do they make efforts to change a reputation? Does the neighborhood reputation constrain their choices?
The empirical phenomenon I look at is market coordination and competition among merchants in these neighborhoods. Ultimately, the way reputation matters to merchants in a neighborhood is in the way that a neighborhood is thought of as a kind of place. By looking at the nature of coordination among businesses in a neighborhood to encourage (or discourage) a place reputation, I identify the circumstances in which neighborhood reputation matters for businesses...See full post -
I though Chicago was so hated because they kick so many out of the program after failing prelims?
That was true in the 1970s. Around 1980, they dramatically lowered the number of students they let in, from around 75 to around 30. It's amazing how persistent the rumor is. I guess people love to hate Chicago.
The main result was that many people from #31 to #75 who don't look great on paper don't have a shot at a top department any more. The flunk rates from #1 to #30 were about the same as in other schools.
I guess PhD admits don't understand conditional probability.
I didn't go to Chicago, but have seen many seminars. PhD students are unbelievably sheepish. Get there early, grab a seat at the table have a cookie and say something already! At my grad school PhDs talked all the time, and didn't wait for an invitation from faculty to do so.Because they know that if they say something dumb, off to the execution chamber they go.
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at Chicago you have to write thesis all on your own with very little guidance. Many faculties don't want to meet with students until they have finished products, and only a few of us - like 6/45 - in each cohort can make it and get good to great academic placement. The majority rest end up with mediocre/bachelor level work and finally give in by finding "easy" advisors (e.g. CM, SL) who let them go to industry after the end of 6 or 7 year of useless time wasted here.
So I agree with most previous posts here. Don't go to Chicago for PhD if you have some other decent options out there.
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there is no such thing as "advisor" or "advising" in chicago, let alone asking how often/how long meetings with them are
The truth is we bump into (CM/SL), tell them we want to go to industry, and here's our (below undergrad-quality work) research. Can you let us go?