Thoughts on Northwestern?

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Anonymous wrote:UPenn, Duke, Columbia, Yale, UChicago > Northwestern = Cornell, Johns Hopkins > Vanderbilt

(UPenn, Columbia, Yale) > UChicago > (Duke, Northwestern, Cornell) > (Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt)

Ivy fetish?

Realistically for undergrad, it's UPenn, Duke, Columbia, Yale > UChicago, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins > Cornell, Vanderbilt

Duke booster. You realize Cornell is an Ivy.

NP... Cornell is the weakest ivy for undergrad by a good amount. I would agree with PP's classification, UPenn, Duke, Columbia, Yale > UChicago, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins > Cornell, Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt could make a case for the middle grouping in the next decade though, it's been getting quite popular.

I don’t even know what “the weakest ivy” means. But it’s well known fact that Cornell is the easiest to get in and the hardest to get out ivy.

I keep reading this about Cornell. Curious--my 2024 is researching and the common consensus is that besides Harvard/Princeton/MIT/ Stanford, Cornell is the place to go for Engineering/CS, UPenn for Business/ Yale is amazing for humanities but not for STEM. He and his peer group are pretty academically motivated kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth should drop to fourth tier above-not much better than Cornell.

Dartmouth has one of the best blends of happy students, attractive students and rankings

It’s top top tier

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Northwestern is underrated when you triangulate between happy, hotties, and academics

On a three dimensional axis, nu rockets up the rankings

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern is underrated when you triangulate between happy, hotties, and academics

On a three dimensional axis, nu rockets up the rankings

i hope you're not a parent of a current undergrad... pretty gross

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern is good, but not great, school. Nearby Chicago is not doing well.

It is a great school, full stop.

Bad weather, hypercompetitive student body, strong emphasis on Greek life - not that great

Less than 5% of the student body was in Greek life at Northwestern last year. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

Has it really gotten that low? I know they were down to 20-25% 2 years ago and more pressure to deactivate greek houses was continuing.

It was at 20-25% maybe five years ago or so. At one point last year there were a total of three active sororities. At the lowest point during the Abolish Greek Life movement, there were like 15 students across campus who were still actively engaged in Greek life, lol.

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern is good, but not great, school. Nearby Chicago is not doing well.

It is a great school, full stop.

Bad weather, hypercompetitive student body, strong emphasis on Greek life - not that great

Less than 5% of the student body was in Greek life at Northwestern last year. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

Has it really gotten that low? I know they were down to 20-25% 2 years ago and more pressure to deactivate greek houses was continuing.

It was at 20-25% maybe five years ago or so. At one point last year there were a total of three active sororities. At the lowest point during the Abolish Greek Life movement, there were like 15 students across campus who were still actively engaged in Greek life, lol.

According to information published by US News, 3 to 4 years ago, 23% of undergrads belonged to fraternities and just 16% belonged to sororities at Northwestern.

Northwestern University undergraduate student population is divided evenly between males (50%) and females (50%).

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It’s no UChicago

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Anonymous wrote:It’s no UChicago

One is enough.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure a NW ED is a good strategic choice. it's really difficult to get into from the DMV (a hair away from impossible) Also, if you're coming from private you better be a URM. 2023 admits from DC privates were about 10/10 URM.

So, what areas of the country/states have better odds at getting in? Midwest?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure a NW ED is a good strategic choice. it's really difficult to get into from the DMV (a hair away from impossible) Also, if you're coming from private you better be a URM. 2023 admits from DC privates were about 10/10 URM.

So, what areas of the country/states have better odds at getting in? Midwest?

I know a ton of kids who matriculate to Northwestern from NYC and NYC area schools, as well as California, Texas, and Florida. Admissions is not significantly different in any way from other schools ranked in the T10-20.

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Anonymous wrote:Impossible to get into..but an amazing school with incredible teaching, beautiful lake side and safe campus/ 25 min from downtown Chicago, incredible STEM/humanities programs. Student body is much more intense with double/triple majors but it’s a dream school for most.

Agree.

Student body is friendly, low key, and hardworking. Not really much of a privileged student vibe as another poster suggested.

Agree with above. Lived in Chicago for years, know many NU grads. Overall pretty well-rounded, smart, interesting, down-to-earth. NU really excels in some areas like journalism, music, engineering, and others that I don’t have as much direct experience with. The location is terrific IMO. I’d be thrilled if my kid went there but admissions are extremely competitive and I believe they do not give merit aid.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure a NW ED is a good strategic choice. it's really difficult to get into from the DMV (a hair away from impossible) Also, if you're coming from private you better be a URM. 2023 admits from DC privates were about 10/10 URM.

So, what areas of the country/states have better odds at getting in? Midwest?

I know a ton of kids who matriculate to Northwestern from NYC and NYC area schools, as well as California, Texas, and Florida. Admissions is not significantly different in any way from other schools ranked in the T10-20.

I think what’s missing from this though is that these kids are coming from mostly private schools. They are mostly rich. Despite higher Ed claiming to value equity and diversity, they mostly take very wealthy or sad stories of hardship. They keep the rich rich and lift a few from poverty. Everyone in between fights for scraps.

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Anonymous wrote:You are all a bunch of weirdos, seriously, for arguing incessantly about what “tiers” all of these schools belong in. You really need another hobby.

Such as posting on a thread about tiers of schools to insult the posters and readers ?

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who needs another hobby most of all ?

NP. I'm w/ PP on this. She just called you out. You all sit in this mire obsessing of ">" and "<" and "tiers." I guess if you're the one bringing up "Mirror, mirror," that makes you the scary stepmom!

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Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth should drop to fourth tier above-not much better than Cornell.

Dartmouth has one of the best blends of happy students, attractive students and rankings

It’s top top tier

Wait, adult parents are considering "hotness" appropriate for consideration? You people have some strange criteria for evaluating institutions of higher learning. If you want a finishing school, just send your kid there.

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern is underrated when you triangulate between happy, hotties, and academics

On a three dimensional axis, nu rockets up the rankings

This is disturbing.