<p>What are the schools most similar to Chicago, in your opinion? This can be in terms of environment, academics, lifestyle, etc...</p>
<p>columbia for style of thought; mit, caltech, bryn mawr, for rigor and lifestyle; columbia, penn, yale, for environment i.e. large city fringe. i personally think chicago is columbia plus more rigor and nerdiness.</p>
<p>I agree with the Columbia statement. I have a friend who went to Chicago and is now a PhD candidate at Columbia and teaches undergrads and he says he sees tons of similarities. I do, however, disagree 100% that Chicago is at all like Penn or Yale. They're both good schools in semi-bad neighborhoods, but neither have a real core, nor are they known for their obsession with intellectuality. Really different people too.</p>
<p>oh, check out Reed College.</p>
<p>yeh, sorry i meant that they are the same sort of literal city type location. i didnt mean at all that theyre alike academically.</p>
<p>Would St. John's also be similar? There's one in New Mexico and where's the other one again?</p>
<p>The other St. Johns (the original campus, btw) is in Baltimore.</p>
<p>St. Johns is kind of its own thing: four years of core courses.<br>
Yes, I think the students are very intellectually focused, as with Chicago, but it still strikes me as being different.</p>
<p>I'm told is is oddball, really really different.</p>
<p>swarthmore would be a similar school</p>
<p>i think the oddball identity at chicago is very important; if you think about all of the great colleges in the country, so many of them have no identity. chicago, on the other hand, boldly advertises its motto and broadcasts it on every surface. due to this, they have a strong base of students who adore the college and thrive there. at so many other name brand colleges across the nation the a greater majority of students end up there for reasons other than a sincere desire to be there. nothing against this attitude, it lends itself to greater diversity, but chicago is chicago for its students who decided to enroll. thus, i think that colleges with hearty identities are by and large similar to chicago. MIT, Caltech, columbia, hopkins</p>
<p>I like the Swat/Chicago comparison.</p>
<p>yeah, there's that intellectual atmosphere at both places</p>