UPenn vs. UChicago vs. Brown

mengcheng9287
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:12:26 +0000

penn is definitely less stressful than uchicago as a whole, as the proportion of uber intellectual kids is lower because of the business school and also more party kids in general. i have a friend at uchic who confirmed this.

between penn and brown, I think brown is definitely more liberal(more weed), maybe somewhat more intellectual(depends on what kind), then brown should be more relaxed than penn given the kind of student body they attract with the unlimited number of pass fail classes. Brown is in a quieter/more boring city however you want to look at that. once again, it depends on what you want to make of the education.

one quick hypothetical is that a kid at a flagship SUNY school could very easily get a more intense/better education than a lazy Penn kid(and there are many believe me) if they sought out all the rigourous/rewarding opportunities at a solid but not excellent state school.

best thing is that penn is so big that you have the opportunity to find large numbers of people like you, versus, sayk, the mere 1500 collarpopping jock smarties at amherst.