<p>My impression is and has been that Chicago is sort of math/social-sciency. It is clearly one of the universities that attract strong math students, and its signature social sciences departments – economics, sociology, political science – have a reputation for quantiness. Also, of course, a longstanding reputation in physics, which is right next door.</p>
<p>However, Chicago also is highly ranked in English, classics, other ancient civilzations, philosophy. And the Core obviously has an enormous humanities component. Students whose focus is math and related fields, or science, probably spend more time on average studying humanities at Chicago than they would anywhere comparable, except maybe Columbia.</p>
<p>One of my Chicago students is well-rounded (but not as strong in math as he would like to be), the other really purely an English student (but thought it was important to get a background in other things, including math and science).</p>