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[quote=Anonymous]I can only speak to UChicago

Pro's:

-  The CORE reinforces graduation with a complete education.  Academics are superb.
-  Friendly cooperative campus atmosphere both academically and socially.  The rigor encourages kids to work together.  All kids are welcome to parties and here is a great deal of inclusion, tolerance for all types.  Kids are very interesting and like to do a lot of interesting things.
- Small classes even as freshmen, professors who encourage active discourse and expect the kids in class.  You will emarge a good writer.
- Gorgeous, well maintained housng and good dining hall food.  The campus is beautiful, green and suburban yet only 20 minutes from the city.  Very outdoorsy lifestyle despite the reputation for cold.  The last few winters have been very mild.  Beach on campus.
- One of the largest career counseling offices in the country.  More research positions than there are kids (including plenty of economic research opportunities.  A plentitude of internship opportunities and slots for on campus interviewing. 
-  Playing sports is accessible to all interested
- The city of Chicago...food, music, theater, museums, architecture...U Chicago students have free or discounted passes to most everything.  Less focus on heavy drinking culture.  There's a lot else to do.
- The quarter system...conducive to making a quarter as relatively easy or challenging as desired.  Double or even triple majorig is possible.
- They are growing a small very focused AI and systems computer science department into a world class one with the addition of most of Berkeley's modern computing  professors this year.  This is a very important development.  They are pushing interdepartmental research  as  disciplines like economics are increasingly big data driven.  UChicago already has a tremendous amount of computing power via the national labs that they manage.
- Hospital on campus (laugh but it comes in very handy)
- Hyde Park is gentrifying at a fast pace.  Presence of both UChicago police and city of chicago police makes it one of the safer campuses despite Chicago's reputation in the news.

Con:
-  The sports aren't very good but then again I don't think anyone cares as they're having fun.
-  The rigor is tough, rewarding but tough.
-  Quarter system..very fast paced, so there is always an upcoming test.[/quote]

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