<p>1) How intellectual is yale? How does it compare to a place like Chicago?</p>
<p>2) Are there any weaker departments? What are they? Specificly how is the cognitive science department (and the departments of related feilds, eg. computer science, linguistics, pyscology)?</p>
<p>3) What is the social life like at Yale? Does one need to party/drink there? Are there plenty extracuriculars to be involved in?</p>