Colleges similar to UChicago?

ssn137
Thu, 19 Nov 2015 00:09:29 +0000

@JHS, thank you for your points, which are well-taken–although I have strong feelings that Chicago and Columbia are far different than the objective similarities suggest. Regardless, my mention of Columbia (and Williams) were unresponsive to the OP’s request to address interesting/urban/less selective. On that (and repeating some of the good advice already provided), I’d offer the following list, which is roughly in perceived selectivity order, from more to less: Brown, Johns Hopkins, WUSTL, Carleton, Berkeley, Occidental, Rhodes, and Reed. Somewhere on that continuum, my view is that one could have a very interesting college experience that’s a standard deviation or so away from the mean.