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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait, u Chicago is not undergraduate focused?[/quote]

No -- it's a research institution that's more focused on grad students and faculty.  Doesn't mean you can't get a great undergrad education there, but that's not its center of gravity.  [/quote]

But that's true of any top "research" university, such as Harvard or Yale as well. Not sure why you'd distinguish Hopkins or Chicago.[/quote]

Scale and vibe/ethos.  At Harvard, undergrad culture is strong (and well-supported by the administration -- this is the donor pool after all) even in the context of a research university.
Also you definitely encounter some faculty who see the undergrads as future movers and shakers and/or the best and the brightest and who therefore take undergrads seriously.

Chicago and Hopkins are much more academically-focused and smaller-scale.  Whereas rival cultures exist and are valued at Harvard, Chicago and Hopkins feel much more focused on academia to the exclusion of many other things that undergrads might value.  Don't know from Yale.  And Princeton, despite being a major research university, is undergrad-centered.  I think many of the "public ivies" work on the same model as Harvard -- they may have both a strong undergrad culture and a strong research culture.  [/quote]

+1. This poster is spot on. [/quote]

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