<p>I am soooo confused and I have no idea which to choose. UChicago and Wellesley are very different schools (big university vs. small liberal arts college)... yet I cannot decide.</p>
<p>Any advice?</p>
<p>Have you even looked at Chicago? I mean, actually read up on it?</p>
<p>It's small by "university" standards, with only 4,000 undergraduates. The faculty:student ratio is a personable 4:1. The curriculum stresses a liberal arts education, with everyone being required to take science and arts courses alike as part of the core. They're not as different as you make them out to be.</p>
<p>The big thing at Wellesley is that it's all-girls.</p>
<p>I meant "big university" as in what it can offer... resources and such...</p>
<p>Well, then I guess that's a big boost for Chicago, in the sense that it has a liberal-arts school feel with tremendous resources.</p>
<p>But then, Wellesley is not exactly lacking in resources either. Besides, there's always the libraries at MIT or around Boston...</p>
<p>Gah...I don't know... I thought that this was going to be an easier decision to make... :/</p>
<p>The atmosphere, setting and culture between Chicago and Wellesley could not be more different. One is a research U, the other a classical liberal arts college. One is hard edged urban, the other bucolic suburban. One is intellectually driven, the other is socially activist. Both offer excellent intellectual and academic opportunities, and would serve you well.</p>
<p>For the record, I live a few miles from Wellesley and have a D who s a first year at Chicago. </p>
<p>I cannot resist sharing my favorite Wellesley observation. Last spring, on a hot day, I did a long bike ride that took me past Wellesley. Some organization (sports team?) was having a car wash fund raiser. Two girls were standing on the busy road with signs for the carwash, wearing.....sweat pants and shirts. Don't know how their fashion helped business. I doubt you'd see carwash coeds wearing sweats at, say, Duke, but it was perfectly consistent with Wellesley's reputation.</p>
<p>Chicago? I doubt they'd ever do such a plebian thing...(more's the shame for Chicago, though)</p>