<p>In terms of campus, prestige, weather, location, education, and social life, how do these schools compare. Thank you.</p>
<p>What is the Chicago campus like? Is it urban like UCLA’s? Also, what is done as far as exercise and sports? I’ve been told bad things about the weather, so I don’t see people jogging everywhere like they do in California. Is there an indoor track?</p>
<p>[University</a> of Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago]University”>University of Chicago - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>[University</a> of California, Los Angeles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLA]University”>University of California, Los Angeles - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Pretty much all of your questions can be answered by some simple Wikipedia’ing.</p>
<p>This is our main athletics center: [University</a> of Chicago Athletics](<a href=“http://athletics.uchicago.edu/facilities/facilities-ratnercenter.htm]University”>Gerald Ratner Athletics Center - The University of Chicago Athletics Athletics)</p>
<p>It’s pretty new, gorgeous inside and out, good stuff.</p>
<p>Chicago’s campus may feel a bit less urban than UCLA’s, since its neighborhood is mainly single-family and low-rise residential except for the university itself (which of course occupies a huge chunk of the neighborhood, intermingled with other stuff), while Westwood has a ton of office buildings and hotels, and lots of high-rise apartments. On the other hand, because Chicago’s public transportation system works a LOT better than LA’s, it is much easier to get around the city to other interesting neighborhoods without a car from the University of Chicago than it is to get anywhere else around LA County from Westwood without a car (and keeping a car in Los Angeles is really expensive). </p>
<p>It’s also worth noting that the whole area around Westwood and UCLA is very upscale, while there are actual poor people living in the areas south and west of the University of Chicago. So for people who use “urban” as a euphemism for “low-income, non-white (and non-Asian)”, the University of Chicago is a lot more urban than UCLA.</p>
<p>In pretty much everything except prestige, the two universities are vastly different, although both excellent. It’s awfully hard to compare them – it’s not so much like comparing apples to oranges as apples to fish. Chicago has a meaningfully better brand name pretty much everywhere in the world outside Southern California, but UCLA ain’t bad anywhere (to say the least), and Southern California can seem like a pretty important part of the world if that’s where you want to live.</p>