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I am African American and don't understand the review stating racial issues here. This is a very "liberal" university, and as you might expect, essentially everyone here seems very neutral with respect to race. Race seems a non-issue. Not sure what the reviewer is talking about.

Where fun goes to die. That all students here are nerdy and boring. "Where the squirrels are cuter than the girls and more aggressive than the guys." That it's super cutthroat and competitive here. That all students do homework all day long.

Nerdy, anti-social, boring.

kids that spend their entire lives in the library. the whole, 'were fun goes to die' is a popular stereotype about Uchicago.

That we're all weird or "quirky," that we study all the time, that we don't go out, that we're not in touch with the real world.

People always have the conception that our school is nerdy, "fun comes to die," that we don't party, etc.

Nerds who don't know how to have fun. Oh, and thanks to Tucker Max, that all the girls are ugly. Also thanks to Tucker Max, all the guys are jerks. The stereotype ultimately comes down to this is the place "where fun comes to die."

All nerdy, have no fun, study all the time, ugly, socially inept

They study too much, are socially awkward, and unattractive.