BREAKING: Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) gets a $480 million gift from the Ryan Family

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is bizarre. Can you, off the top of your head, name anyone who graduated from Princeton in the past 20 years?

Northwestern is particularly good at producing famous people because of their theater program.

Also fame is definitely not the only measure of success.

Brooke Shields and Michelle Obama! What’s the point you’re trying to make?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is bizarre. Can you, off the top of your head, name anyone who graduated from Princeton in the past 20 years?

Northwestern is particularly good at producing famous people because of their theater program.

Also fame is definitely not the only measure of success.

Brooke Shields and Michelle Obama! What’s the point you’re trying to make?

Brooke Shields isn't any relevant anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern’s excellent and has produced a lot of big names and prolific alumni. I’d easily place it as one of the top ten schools in the country. Why all the hate? I attended a prestigious prep school in NJ in the early 80’s and even then Northwestern was a very popular school among the high achieving student body, among other schools such as Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, and Georgetown.

+1, this isn't anything new.

Agree. When I graduated high school over 20 years ago, there were many kids in the top 10% whose first choice was Northwestern. It was not an ivy backup. It was a dream School among the honors kids.

Please cite some alums in the last 20 years who've done anything really noteworthy. Please don't name any j-school dorks. The only one I can think of is the former Groupon guy, Andrew Mason? He seems like like more of an outlier than anything. In my experience, Northwestern undergrad is honestly a cringy nerd college which has more of a state school vibe than an elite college ethos. The social kids we know transferred out. It's also really tough with a quarter system, so it's both hard and expensive, but with basically zero prestige or brand appeal nationwide.

You sound really bitter for some reason? And your assertions are nowhere near accurate or true.

Just use Google next time, it's easier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University#Alumni

Ok, yeah, distinguished alumni is one area where Northwestern most certainly isn't lacking. Pick better battles next time, PP!

Is it so lacking that Northwestern has to count Meghan as one its distinguished alumni? What distinguishable thing did she accomplish to warrant that?

She’ married some red head white dude. I guess you need a NU degree for that.

[Anonymous]

Gwynne Shotwell and Ginni Rometty are two of the biggest names for women in STEM. Didn't know they're both NU grads. That's awesome.

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Anonymous wrote:This is bizarre. Can you, off the top of your head, name anyone who graduated from Princeton in the past 20 years?

The red haired gal from The Office, Ellie Kemper, graduated from Princeton. But Princeton's bonafides aren't up for debate.

Northwestern boosters are the ones who like to use these fake rankings to claim it's dancing with Ivies when it's not. Not even close. The average person has never heard of Northwestern, assumes it's the university in Boston, or would guess it's some state school in the Pacific Northwest.

I personally recognize it's a good school but this idea kids grow up clamoring to go there or it is in any way comparable to Princeton or even Cornell and Brown is laughable. The bottom quartile of Northwestern is deeply unimpressive. State school esque.

[Anonymous]

This is bizarre. Can you, off the top of your head, name anyone who graduated from Princeton in the past 20 years?

The red haired gal from The Office, Ellie Kemper, graduated from Princeton. But Princeton's bonafides aren't up for debate.

Northwestern boosters are the ones who like to use these fake rankings to claim it's dancing with Ivies when it's not. Not even close. The average person has never heard of Northwestern, assumes it's the university in Boston, or would guess it's some state school in the Pacific Northwest.

I personally recognize it's a good school but this idea kids grow up clamoring to go there or it is in any way comparable to Princeton or even Cornell and Brown is laughable. The bottom quartile of Northwestern is deeply unimpressive. State school esque.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the "who are they" refrain supposed to be some insult? I don't get it, if it is. I mean, they're multibillionaires. What more do you want to know about them? The vast majority of people who make mega-donations to these kinds of universities are not household names.

I think Jan is in some mad disbelief that Northwestern, a second-tier mediocre university in a crime-ridden and deteriorating city in her eyes, is even capable of producing multibillionaires.

She said in an earlier post that the word "leaders" only belong to HYP. A Stanford grad myself, I laughed out loud.

Evanston is a suburb of Chicago, north shore burb to be more specific. Evanston is seedy in some parts but nothing like the ghettos of Chicago proper. And the most expensive residential homes in the Midwest are in all directions of NU. Outside of the performing arts theater kids, I thought NU was basically like the north shore rich kid college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

This is bizarre. Can you, off the top of your head, name anyone who graduated from Princeton in the past 20 years?

The red haired gal from The Office, Ellie Kemper, graduated from Princeton. But Princeton's bonafides aren't up for debate.

Northwestern boosters are the ones who like to use these fake rankings to claim it's dancing with Ivies when it's not. Not even close. The average person has never heard of Northwestern, assumes it's the university in Boston, or would guess it's some state school in the Pacific Northwest.

I personally recognize it's a good school but this idea kids grow up clamoring to go there or it is in any way comparable to Princeton or even Cornell and Brown is laughable. The bottom quartile of Northwestern is deeply unimpressive. State school esque.

Who’s clamoring any of that? What fake rankings are you speaking of, and why bring any of that into a thread about Northwestern receiving a donation?

Also, I don’t think the PP is a Northwestern “booster”. Not sure if you were able to catch onto that with your clearly superior intellectual prowess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

This is bizarre. Can you, off the top of your head, name anyone who graduated from Princeton in the past 20 years?

The red haired gal from The Office, Ellie Kemper, graduated from Princeton. But Princeton's bonafides aren't up for debate.

Northwestern boosters are the ones who like to use these fake rankings to claim it's dancing with Ivies when it's not. Not even close. The average person has never heard of Northwestern, assumes it's the university in Boston, or would guess it's some state school in the Pacific Northwest.

I personally recognize it's a good school but this idea kids grow up clamoring to go there or it is in any way comparable to Princeton or even Cornell and Brown is laughable. The bottom quartile of Northwestern is deeply unimpressive. State school esque.

Ted Cruz the zodiac killer!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

This is bizarre. Can you, off the top of your head, name anyone who graduated from Princeton in the past 20 years?

The red haired gal from The Office, Ellie Kemper, graduated from Princeton. But Princeton's bonafides aren't up for debate.

Northwestern boosters are the ones who like to use these fake rankings to claim it's dancing with Ivies when it's not. Not even close. The average person has never heard of Northwestern, assumes it's the university in Boston, or would guess it's some state school in the Pacific Northwest.

I personally recognize it's a good school but this idea kids grow up clamoring to go there or it is in any way comparable to Princeton or even Cornell and Brown is laughable. The bottom quartile of Northwestern is deeply unimpressive. State school esque.

Hi Jan, what rankings are you even talking about? Is this what an allegedly superior Princeton education taught you?

[Anonymous]

Wow, 15 pages in and there's clearly a LOT of salt in this thread for untold reasons.

Basically how this thread has gone:

User A: "Look at this huge donation Northwestern got."

User B: "But how is Northwestern better than schools X, Y, and Z? No one cares about this school. Has it ever even produced a single distinguished alum? And don't you dare even put it on the same level as HYPSM."

The rest of us: ??????????

And repeat!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

This is bizarre. Can you, off the top of your head, name anyone who graduated from Princeton in the past 20 years?

The red haired gal from The Office, Ellie Kemper, graduated from Princeton. But Princeton's bonafides aren't up for debate.

Northwestern boosters are the ones who like to use these fake rankings to claim it's dancing with Ivies when it's not. Not even close. The average person has never heard of Northwestern, assumes it's the university in Boston, or would guess it's some state school in the Pacific Northwest.

I personally recognize it's a good school but this idea kids grow up clamoring to go there or it is in any way comparable to Princeton or even Cornell and Brown is laughable. The bottom quartile of Northwestern is deeply unimpressive. State school esque.

I turned down Cornell to go to NU (engineering). No regrets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, 15 pages in and there's clearly a LOT of salt in this thread for untold reasons.

Basically how this thread has gone:

User A: "Look at this huge donation Northwestern got."

User B: "But how is Northwestern better than schools X, Y, and Z? No one cares about this school. Has it ever even produced a single distinguished alum? And don't you dare even put it on the same level as HYPSM."

The rest of us: ??????????

And repeat!

Classic trope of the hypsm prestige defense squad. They really can’t think of anything better to do with their lives than to put down other schools on DCUM, whenever an opportunity arises. But it’s cringeworthy to see some of the Princeton and Stanford boosters getting salty in another thread on T14 law school admissions when OP said only Harvard and Yale have the smartest students and after that, there’s a huge drop-off in quality. LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

This is bizarre. Can you, off the top of your head, name anyone who graduated from Princeton in the past 20 years?

The red haired gal from The Office, Ellie Kemper, graduated from Princeton. But Princeton's bonafides aren't up for debate.

Northwestern boosters are the ones who like to use these fake rankings to claim it's dancing with Ivies when it's not. Not even close. The average person has never heard of Northwestern, assumes it's the university in Boston, or would guess it's some state school in the Pacific Northwest.

I personally recognize it's a good school but this idea kids grow up clamoring to go there or it is in any way comparable to Princeton or even Cornell and Brown is laughable. The bottom quartile of Northwestern is deeply unimpressive. State school esque.

Who is Ellie Kemper?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, 15 pages in and there's clearly a LOT of salt in this thread for untold reasons.

Basically how this thread has gone:

User A: "Look at this huge donation Northwestern got."

User B: "But how is Northwestern better than schools X, Y, and Z? No one cares about this school. Has it ever even produced a single distinguished alum? And don't you dare even put it on the same level as HYPSM."

The rest of us: ??????????

And repeat!

lol