Hi all thanks for all the input. I know it seems crazy because the school’s are so different but she is attracted to those differences for different reasons. She loves the idea of the academic rigor of Chicago but she is inclined to work really really hard and she doesn’t want hard work to be the only defining characteristic of her college career. She likes that a lot of people would have the common platform of the core but she sees the value of the open curriculum. She doesn’t want to be in a school that competes against each other, but both schools claim there is a lot of collaboration. I had the impression that the kids at Chicago didn’t do a lot of other extracurriculars but my daughter says they do. She loves math and wants to use game theory etc for public policy decisions (to at least that sounds interesting right now). I know Chicago has top-notch math but it strikes me that a lot of people use it for Wall Street and private industry?? I can say one thing–Chicago puts Brown to shame on the swag 
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