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

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Anonymous wrote:https://dailynorthwestern.com/2008/04/16/archive-manual/is-nu-a-safety-school/

From Northwestern's campus newspaper: "Is NU a Safety School?" April 16, 2008

While nearly seven out of 10 freshmen across the nation are still at their top pick according to the survey, that may not be true here. “For the kids applying to Northwestern, I’m sure that statistic is lower,” says Michael Mills, associate provost for undergraduate admission. “We’re still more of a safety school for certain types of kids, the nation’s best high school kids.”

When Mills took his post in the admissions office three years ago, he wanted to know “exactly who our competition was.” He looked at data from the National Student Clearinghouse that tracks where individuals enroll and found that students were regularly turning down NU for Duke and UPenn.

Then, Mills set about making NU harder to get into. “That’s the one yard stick (that is used) more than any other to gauge how good a school is,” he says. “The higher your acceptance rate, the more difficult it is to persuade a really top students and her parents that this is the school for them.” To attract more applicants, the school has been trying to increase name recognition and reaching out to high school guidance counselors by bringing them to campus.

As far as acceptance rates go, it is hard to pin down what tier NU is on. On the list of America’s Best Colleges published annually by U.S. News & World Report, it has dropped farther from the top ten in recent years, bobbing with some of the Ivies, this year tying with Brown and Johns Hopkins in 14th place. “The biggest problem Northwestern has is the same problem that the other top Midwestern schools have, and that is location,” says Johnson, who says he still considers NU to be top-tier. “Kids won’t consider the Midwest.”

Some damning words coming from NU's director of undergraduate admissions himself.

The Midwest has some of the best (and most beautiful) colleges and universities in the country, with some of the best college experiences available. What an asinine, self-hating statement.

While true, most of these rich instagram prep school kids tend to PREFER to want to be on the coasts. Where they can take a quick train or flight to see other friends at other campuses or pop into NYC or LA for a weekend. Whatever. Midwest is super isolating if you're not from there. And again, Northwestern is not in Chicago. And same for UChicago, while it's technically in Chicago proper, it's like 20 plus minutes from downtown.

“Whatever.” This must be why there are so many rich kids from the East Coast at all of the Big Ten schools.

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Coastal rich kids end up at Michigan, Northwestern, and Wisconsin because they are better than attending Cal State, Rutgers, Maryland or some SUNY.

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Can confirm there are a LOT of rich "coastal" prep school kids at Northwestern. Also a lot of very wealthy international students.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that douchebag rich entitled kids and families from the east coast look down on midwest schools is what makes them such a refreshing, grounded and pleasant place to go to college.

+100

Spoken like someone who's never met any Northwestern kids. Half the college is obnoxious "douchebag rich entitled kids and families from the east coast look down on midwest schools" who were rejected from all the west and east coast colleges in the top 25. They have a huge inferiority complex and chip on their shoulder, which they masquerade with arrogance and call Midwest peers things like "peasant".

This is not even remotely true, at all.

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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!

Re-upping this because it's relevant. People are really offended that Northwestern received a huge sum of money. Maybe it's jealousy?

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Prestige defense squad lives in a warped reality based on far outdated perceptions that no longer hold true. It’s that simple.

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Anonymous wrote:Can confirm there are a LOT of rich "coastal" prep school kids at Northwestern. Also a lot of very wealthy international students.

I went to Wisconsin, another Big Ten school, and it was the same. Plus, we had their Chicago area counterparts too.