UChicago vs UPenn CAS vs Brown

I’m down to UChicago and UPenn CAS. It’s so hard to decide between the 2. I’m leaning slightly toward UChicago just because I want the option of attending graduate school in math/econ/stats, and UChicago’s grad school placement is a bit better than Penn’s. UChicago is also a couple thousand dollars cheaper per year.

Sounds like you’ve made a decision. Very different from the one I would make but you really can’t go wrong.

I doubt there is even a shred of evidence to support this claim.

More Chicago students may pursue PhDs, but that does not mean that it is easier to do so from Chicago than Penn.

Congrats, all three schools are really great! If you want to do consulting at a place like McKinsey out of school are probably best at Penn, then a tie between Brown and Chicago. You can check the numbers on LinkedIn - Penn sends kids to top consulting firms in droves. For STEM, you probably have a wash between all three with the edge going to Penn and Brown for computer science/engineering/data science and the edge going to Chicago for math/statistics. In terms of alumni network, however, I don’t think it’s close. Penn has an amazing network that crawls every corner of business and tech, similar to schools like Columbia, Dartmouth and Duke. But in terms of quality of life, your best bet is probably Brown, then Penn, and lastly UChicago, if that is something you are considering. Your ability to get into top PhDs from any of these schools will be about the same - while they are not as fine-tuned as schools like MIT and Harvard, they can all get you the right opportunities. Also, please don’t look at things like rankings to decide - most rankings actually have Penn and Brown ahead of UChicago except for US News, so it would be an invalid argument to say any of them are “more prestigious” or “higher ranked.”