<p>UCSF is a free standing medical school/ Hospital/ medical research facility associated with the University of California system.</p>
<p>Have you closely compared the required classes at each college? Chicago’s core vrs all the required science classes at CT?. CT’s reputation is that it is one of THE places to go for science majors who want to dive into intense, fast paced science classes AND do research at the grad school level as an undergraduate. For many freshman, their classes are akin to “being thrown into the deep end of the pool”. Chicago is also intense, but in a more Renaissance-man sort of fashion. No one that I know has ever gone to CT to get a well rounded liberal arts education.</p>