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<li><p>It depends on what programs your into as to which school is the best. But overall its a close race between Northwestern and Chicago. Chicago is more intimate while Northwestern has a wider variety of programs and lots more people. Location is also a different with Northwestern in the suburbs of Chicago and Uof C on the soutside and much closer to dowtown. Those are the only two schools I know a lot about sicne I’m applying to them.</p></li>
<li><p>I think you can continue taking lessons with your current teacher if you go to either Northwestern or Chicago (you would have to talk to the schools about the specifics) but I don’t think Chicago has a very good music program. Northwestern has a music school and Notre Dame is also supposed to be very good for music (I’m a pianist, so I have some inkling about it).</p></li>
<li><p>It has a good foreign languages program, espcially in the classics and Euro languages. It’s math and physics are very good, many nobel laureates. Its economics program is also excellent, tied for first with many others. I think any program that is at Chicago is quite good. And if it isn’t good, most likely there is no program for it.</p></li>
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