<p>Claremont McKenna is far from an intellectual haven (way too much partying, not to mention carefree attitudes towards study - at LEAST first year students.)</p>
<p>Anyway, small colleges similar to Chicago are: Reed, Swarthmore, Carleton, Grinnell, Bates, Smith, Oberlin, Whitman. Caltech, Mudd are sciency equivalents.</p>