<p>Over the past couple months I've heard from multiple people that UofC is great school, but that's all the information they've been able to give me. No one seems to know much about the University, besides that it is prestigious. Im from the midwest, and really like Chicago, and I'm wondering how the campus compares to that of Depaul or UIC, two campuses I have been on. Also, I'd aprreciate any information on how the city of chicago is used by students, for both education and recreational purposes. I've heard of a work-study program involving Chicago businesses and UofC business students but, once again, no one has any real information. Any comments/advice would be apprieciated.</p>
<p>Chicago is the coolest campus ever. Its like white-gothic-ivy-covered-castle buildings. everywhere. then theres the random ugly max p dorm just chillin there next to the reg. they are like the misfits of the campus vibe.</p>
<p>why do i think U of C is great? your core classes aren't gen-eds with 100 people in an auditorium, but rather 20 sutdents sitting around a room discussing things with the professor.</p>
<p>And remember, there is no undergraduate business program, those programs, if they exist, are in the GSB (Graduate School of Business).</p>
<p>I would encourage you to go to the uchicago.edu website and really poke around it. You'll find a lot of information, pictures, etc. Also, everything you ask about has been discussed in more detail than you would possibly want, on this forum and probably on other forums where Chicago students congregate. Read a few of the old threads (and by "old", I mean from a few days ago, or months), and then see if you have more specific questions.</p>
<p>The University of Chicago campus is nothing like the UIC campus. I've never seen DePaul, but I've heard it has a pretty nice campus in a nice part of the city, a lot closer to the Loop than Hyde Park.</p>
<p>the aura that surrounds the U of C</p>
<p>I applied to the University of Chicago because pretty much everything about it, as I was researching, seemed to fit me. That's what you should be looking for when your'e applying to college.</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions. Also, can any one describe the Hyde Park area, along with its location in reference to the downtown/magic mile area. I imagine it to be something like the SOHO area of NYC, sort of a more laidback area that doesn't have giant skyscrapers and crazy traffic everywhere, but I really have no idea.</p>
<p>Nothing like Soho at all. Soho is a factory/warehouse/tenement district wedged among Greenwich Village, Little Italy, Chinatown, and Wall Street. It is easy walking distance from a lot of stuff -- including midtown, but certainly Wall St. The buildings in Soho are mainly old industrial that have been converted to residential, artistic, retail. Soho is trendy, hip, monied (now).</p>
<p>Hyde Park is nothing like that. It is six or seven miles from the Loop, further from the Magnificent Mile, and it's not a six or seven miles anyone would want to stroll. It is, and always has been, almost completely residential except for the University. There are lots of single-family homes (or former single-family homes) and townhouses, a few apartment buildings (almost all of them originally built as high-end, luxury apartments, or hotels), and modest retail shopfronts along a few blocks of a few streets. There are tons of trees, little parks -- it is very green. As is generally true in Chicago, the streets are wiiiiide, the blocks are looooong, everything is on a flat grid. (Soho: different.) There is practically nothing hip or trendy in Hyde Park except for maybe a hookah bar (one). Chicago students who want hip or trendy go elsewhere in the city to get it. There are several great bookstores, though, and lots of coffee shops.</p>
<p>Hyde Park has never been other than an upper-middle-class/student community (or at least not in the past century).</p>
<p>I haven't seen any neighborhood in New York that seems like Hyde Park. If there were, it would be in the North Bronx, or the eastern reaches of Queens, or on Staten Island: almost suburban, but not quite. It's not so different from, say, Ithaca, except that you can see the Sears Tower all the time in the distance, and there are no gorges, and instead of rolling hills with vineyards to the south and west you have lots of poor people.</p>
<p>wow, thanks, thats a lot different than what I had in mind, where is the campus in relation to the humbolt park district (im thinking that humbolt may be included in the 6 or 7 miles no one wants to walk)</p>
<p>People pretty much go downtown or to the near North End, i.e. the places served by the six and the red line. Some people certainly go out to the other city locals, but it is a much smaller crowd. </p>
<p>The "Hyde Park, Chicago" article on Wikipedia has some good neighborhood photos.</p>
<p>One can "walk" down many of the streets by using the Google Maps street view. Try putting in 57th Street and University Avenue, Chicago, IL for example and walk down the street. One can then move the little green guy cursor around Hyde Park a take a look.</p>