This is all very helpful, thank you. My perception of Case is that the humanities are a bit more of a sideline, but I don’t know if that’s really true. It certainly feels very STEM-heavy. Rochester I think less so? Though wasn’t on campus myself. As for Brandeis’ Jewish history and flavor, that seems mostly a potential matter of social vibe with one broad population (in all its variety) predominating, but my sense is that that’s just one piece of the social puzzle and I can’t tell if it will have any impact on my kid, pro or con or neutral, until he spends some time there himself.
Current interest is astrophysics or quantum mechanics, but that could change.