UChicago vs. Penn CAS

hyeonjlee
Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:15:51 +0000

when I jokingly summarized what I read about UChicago as below based on the number of grad students vs. undergrad, my son, who will be a freshman this fall, got really miffed, and thought that was not funny :-)

“An adult community (grad school) with an affiliated pre school (undergrad)”

I like it very much that the frat scene does not dominate U Chicago, and there is plenty of adult supervision ;-). I did my Ph.D. work at a large university with an incredibly busy Greek scene, and I did not come away with very positive memory of that - it looked like the frat culture is an opposite of serious intellectual pursuit. Of course, I am totally guilty of being biased, and it may be largely due to the overall atmosphere of the school itself too. I am sure there are a lot of positive aspects of the Greek life too.