<p>Those are all great choices, and it’s hard to go wrong. I’d say Chicago or Brown if you are a very intellectually inclined person. Georgetown if you are interested in international relations/government/modern languages. Penn if your focus is more pre-professional.</p>
<p>For me, Chicago and Georgetown would probably have more to offer in terms of the city in which they are located than Brown or Penn. Penn is probably the most gritty urban and least attractive. Georgetown has a small campus, but Washington is lovely. Brown has a nice campus and Providence is greatly improved, but doesn’t have the huge cultural resources that Washington does, or somewhat less so Chicago, and somewhat less so Philadelphia. The U of C has a really nice urban campus, better than the others IMHO, and Hyde Park is homey, not concrete canyons.</p>
<p>If you can narrow it down and visit, it would be a good idea.</p>