<p>Does U of Chicago have a nice campus? or is in throughout the city like NYU? I tried looking a the website but it hard to figure out....thx for the help</p>
<p>Hi--</p>
<p>It has a lovely campus in an inner city neighborhood. It reminds me a bit of Brooklyn, NY actually, but maybe that's just me. So by inner city I mean that there are trees and houses in addition to lowrise apartment buildings, public transportation. A lot of the architecture is older, from the '30s-50s (if you've ever seen the movie "While You Were Sleeping," it looks a bit like where Sandra Bullock lives, in parts) but there are also some new things as well. The campus itself is nestled in Hyde Park, which is part of Chicago, and is made up gothic-style buildings (do the online tour to see some) of quads with lawns etc. One of the cool things about the campus is that it really does mingle with the neighborhood, rather than being entirely insular. Some of the dorms, as well as classrooms and departments and bookstores, are scattered throughout the neighborhood. From my two visits, I felt very much as though I was in a place where people aside from students lived, which was a plus for me. However, I was also pleased that I felt I was still on a campus, a real campus, unlike, say, NYU. Because UChicago is much smaller than NYU, you don't get the feeling that you're just walking the streets of a city amongst strangers. You feel the University community as well as the Hyde Park community, which converge in a lot of ways. Let me just say that I fell in love with the school from the website, but wasn't wholly convinced. Then I visited Hyde Park and I literally uttered the phrase, "I could call this home." As it is very different from other cities, like NYC and San Fransisco, I highly recommend a visit if you can do it at some point--it's very persuasive.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Speaking as an alum, I can tell you that UC has a very beautiful campus with lots of trees and open space among buildings that come in a variety of architectural styles (including Gothic, Frank Lloyd Wright, post-modern). It's as close as you can get to a traditional, "New England -type" college campus in the Midwest. Definitely go and visit if you can. It doesn't have any of that "big city" impersonal feel like some NYC schools.</p>
<p>We visited UChicago after visiting Harvard, Yale, George Washington and Georgetown. We thought Chicago just was as gorgeous as Georgetown (and ever so slightly behind Yale, because Yale really has the quintessential New England university look) and more attractive and bucolic than Harvard (which we also loved for all the brick). For a campus that is seamlessly integrated in a city, check out GW. </p>
<p>Chicago did seem set apart from the city due to being in Hyde Park and the feel on campus was similar to being inside Harvard and Chicago "yards." There's ivy and wonderful architecture and gargoyles. The best part was all the trees, which were changing colors at the time. As worried-mom said, it's a very beautiful campus. We got only a small sense of the surrounding neighborhood, which appeared to be well-kept houses and apartments, but that was only the side that we came in from. We did not have time to drive around the entire campus. It did not feel like it was in the middle of the inner city at all, certainly not like USC feels in south-central Los Angeles.</p>
<p>When you are within the blocks of the school, and they are many--you have a total campus feel. There are no residences or non-campus mechants within the main outline of the school. Only a few dorms etc are out a bit farther. It is a very nice campus.</p>
<p>your link doesn't work and besides, i don't think you're supposed to be advertising your own products on CC...</p>
<p>i thought that the uchicago campus was great--probably the most similar to yale but for a teeny weeny bit less activity. the arch. is similar to yale (principally gothic), yet i found a princetonish feel in the main quad area since it was so fresh and almost rural feeling when i was there on a sleepy sunday morn. if youve visited other city campuses, probably less busy than most of them and more of a college feel than them too. since hyde park is imo a semi urban section of the metropolis that is chicago, it feels more secure and can be even more removed from the city life if youre searching for quiet.</p>
<p>As an alum of the GSB who also has a freshman daughter there, I thought I'd add my two cents.</p>
<p>When I was at U of C years ago (don't ask...) it was an oasis in a tough area. That perception lingers but is no longer true. Just south of the campus, in Woodlawn, they are building $400,000 condos. North of the campus, all the way to downtown, the area is a building frenzy of garden condos, three flats, low rise, high rise - you name it. It is rapidly gentrifying. West of the campus, beyond Jackson park, is a but rough (real rough southwest), but that is quite a distance.</p>
<p>Hyde Park is more like a old style high density suburban area than a true urban area. It is several miles from downtown, accessible by train or bus (UC runs an express to the "fun" areas.) It's biggest limitation is that retail is still pretty limited in the area. There is one Walgreens, one grocery store and the usual collection of small hardware, video etc. near the campus. There are no big box retailers for miles - Office Depot comes the closest with a small box version of their big box store. And, curiously, there is no decent hotel nearby. Even U. C. suggests staying downtown for visits. </p>
<p>BTW, my D loves it there. A big plus of the campus is its compact nature. You don't spend 1/2 hour walking from one part to another between classes.</p>