Schools like Brown, but less selective?

tk21769
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:00:49 +0000

UChicago! (I think that is a wonderful school based on what you’re looking for… def look there)



Yes, Chicago is a wonderful school. But it does not seem to fit the OP’s stated preferences. It has a strong core curriculum (not an open curriculum like Brown’s). It does offer a Cinema and Media Studies major, but the school has long been considered an academic pressure cooker. It is not too much less selective than Brown. The admit rate is higher but the SAT medians are about the same. It does tend to be an easier admit than some of the Ivies if you are merely one of the smartest kids in your class and not in addition a one-armed juggling champion who fled religious persecution from your impoverished country in a homemade air balloon.