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He attended the University of Chicago because, despite his excellent high school grades, it was one of the very few colleges he had applied to that would consider accepting a 16-year-old.

Brit writes - is the University of Chicago considered second-rate? I have no idea, but that section in the article is implying it. Perhaps the University of Chicago is not as good as universities like Harvard and Princeton, in the same way that Oxford or Cambridge in UK are in some sense better than other UK universities. But is the reader of this article just supposed to know that? Charliepenandink ( talk) 00:23, 13 November 2023 (UTC) reply

The 1997 film Contact was based on the only novel Sagan wrote and finished after his death. It ends with the dedication "For Carl." His photo can also be seen in the film.

This makes it seem that Sagan continued to write after he died. It seems like there might have been something about who finished the novel that got edited out. Runtape ( talk) 23:55, 14 March 2024 (UTC) reply

I am not an experienced editor, but I agree that it does sound a little weird. You can try rewriting it to make it better, preferably after you have read the sources. Hym3242 ( talk) 08:09, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply