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[quote=Anonymous]Much more familiar with UofC; DH is on the faculty there. But, I've been to Brown and know a lot of people who have connections there as well.  They are fairly different -- one still has a core and used to be a great books school, one has an open curriculum.  One is known as borderline conservative (which is only partially true), while one is known as one of the if not the most liberal Ivy.

Those two factors would be enough to make the decision for me -- if the idea of a campus keeping a controversial speaker away makes your kid uncomfortable, then your kid will probably prefer UofC. They prize intellectual rigor above everything else, and that's true from day one and it includes forcing people to encounter opinions different from their own.  This is a true stereotype; many of the other UofC stereotypes are either old or overblown (like, the kids don't party, there's nothing to do in Hyde Park, etc).  Having lived in Hyde Park, the partying thing is definitely not true and the restaurant/food scene has improved by leaps and bounds.  Also, students just take Uber or Lyft to get into the rest of Chicago.

UofC students are not soulless robots,  nor do I think their caliber is so lofty and "in-the-clouds" as people like to think.  They're college students, just... a little more serious than average.

The quarter system is no joke. [/quote]

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