<p>Yes, of course Yale, which feels a lot more like Chicago than Harvard. </p>
<p>And Penn, too, even if in some ways Penn is Chicago’s diametric opposite (or evil twin). At Chicago “preprofessional” is one of the most insulting things you can call someone, although of course there are plenty of students there who plan to go to professional schools, and top-ranked professional schools that are proud parts of the university. At Penn, the students are proud of their preprofessionalism, and “intellectual” is something of a derogatory term. Just as with preprofessional students at Chicago, Penn has lots of intellectual undergraduates in the College of Arts and Sciences, but they tend to view themselves as an oppressed minority, and to some extent they are. Also, Penn is a place where loud, large parties and conspicuous displays of wealth are more the norm than not.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins, maybe? Swarthmore is a place that has the same kind of intellectual vibe as Chicago. </p>
<p>I think of Brown as being a lot like Chicago, or at least as attracting students who are fundamentally similar. My kids – while admitting that no one could tell the difference between them and their friends who went to Brown as of their high school graduations – insist that there is a strong anti-intellectual streak at Brown (and can prove it pretty well with examples).</p>