<p>uni. chicago seems cool, but i don’t know much about their programs…so is it a fit? here is a post with some requirements i made</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=54667[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=54667</a></p>
<p>Yes. Except for the liberal part.</p>
<p>really? i thought it was more left leaning?</p>
<p>It is left-leaning…I’m not quite sure what fortune is talking about, unless he’s referring to the Economics and Poli-Sci faculties…in which case they’re not so much right as they are libertarians.</p>
<p>The only things that might not fit your description are…</p>
<p>Neighborhood: The U of C has a great location with respect t the city of Chicago - that is there are many events and activities right at your fingertips. However, the specific neighborhood of Hyde Park is much less collegey than many other university neighborhoods (imagine a scale with towns like Madison on one end and neighborhoods like hyde park on the other…) That is not to say, of course, that you won’t find interesting things to do and places to go in Hyde Park, it’s just that you should be prepared to travel into the greater downtown Chicago area for fun. The CTA is well equipped to get you there, for the most part. Depending on where you’d live, you can take various buses or the L up into the city rather easily and inexpensively.</p>
<p>The only other hitch is the core. However, I think you should be more open about the idea of having a core. While it is true that perhaps in your first year you have little flexibility - the majority of all first years take a course sequence that looks something like: Hum (humanities), Calculus, Science, language/major course/other elective, you still have quite a bit of wiggle room, and the core can actually expose you to new subjects that you would not have considered majoring in without it.</p>
<p>To give you an idea of the flexibility, while I was enrolled in calculus and hum and physics my first year, I was also able to take a political science class first quarter in which I was the only first year - out of maybe 30 (the class was mostly 3rd and 4th years). Then in winter quarter I was able to take another poli sci class from a rather well known professor (John Mearsheimer) that was mostly 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years. You should not view the idea of the core as a restrictive thing - rather, you should view it as a way to broaden yourself to types of learning and experienes that would normally not fall within your academic comfort zone.</p>
<p>if you look at the facebook, the students lean (enough to fall over if they were a bowling pin) to the left.</p>
<p>if I remember right, there were 200some students for “highly conservative” 5-600 for conservative, "More than 1000 (no exact number given) liberal and 600some highly liberal. There were also libertarian and moderate categories but we’ll leave those alone for straight political slant.</p>
<p>look into wash U in st. louis.
It seems like a fitting place for you.</p>
<p>maybe even better than uchicago.</p>
<p>Except for the fact that St. Louis is a piece of ***** city.</p>
<p>uh…that sounds more like an ‘opinion’ rather than a ‘fact’</p>
<p>who knows? she might think differently…</p>
<p>The only thing St. Louis has going for it is a great music scene.</p>
<p>What else is there to say about a city that has a population that has slowly diminished over the last 15 years? It used to be one of the biggest cities, and I don’t even think it cracks the top 40 now.</p>
<p>thanks for all of the input!</p>
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<p>Don’t forget me and the 227 other “apathetic”. We don’t all care.</p>
<p>I’d like to correct those figures, the liberal ones are right but the conservative ones I think are more like 300 and 200</p>