Northwestern

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are Northwestern’s closest peer schools in DC area students? Duke, Penn, Cornell, or Georgetown?

Duke, Penn, Johns Hopkins, and UChicago

Maybe nowadays but in the past I’ve seen Duke and Penn be very favorable for cross-admits against Northwestern. I think Northwestern, Hopkins, UChicago, Cornell are all very similar though

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are Northwestern’s closest peer schools in DC area students? Duke, Penn, Cornell, or Georgetown?

Duke, Penn, Johns Hopkins, and UChicago

Maybe nowadays but in the past I’ve seen Duke and Penn be very favorable for cross-admits against Northwestern. I think Northwestern, Hopkins, UChicago, Cornell are all very similar though

As of late I’ve seen a lot of Duke vs Northwestern matchups, w split about even

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are Northwestern’s closest peer schools in DC area students? Duke, Penn, Cornell, or Georgetown?

Duke, Cornell and Chicago

[Anonymous]

In terms of desirability from HSers, I’d say equal to lower Ivies (Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell), Duke and Chicago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In terms of desirability from HSers, I’d say equal to lower Ivies (Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell), Duke and Chicago

+1. I can’t speak for Columbia, but I’ve also seen a fair amount choose between Penn and NW, split about half/half.

[Anonymous]

The Fiske Guide To Colleges 2023 edition lists Northwestern University's top 8 overlap schools as:

Duke
Stanford
U Penn
Yale
U Michigan
Princeton
WashUStL
Harvard

Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, U Penn-Wharton will almost always be the preferred choice. Probably Yale as well.

Duke, U Michigan, & U Penn (non-Wharton admits) are probably 50/50.

Northwestern is likely to be the preferred choice over WashUStL for most.

[Anonymous]

A primary difference between Northwestern and Columbia/U Chicago is the core curriculum requirements at Columbia & U Chicago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A primary difference between Northwestern and Columbia/U Chicago is the core curriculum requirements at Columbia & U Chicago.

On the existence of core requirements, the differences will be slight.
https://weinberg.northwestern.edu/undergraduate/degree/distribution-requirements/index.html
https://www.college.columbia.edu/core/classes/science.php
https://college.uchicago.edu/academics/core/writing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Fiske Guide To Colleges 2023 edition lists Northwestern University's top 8 overlap schools as:

Duke
Stanford
U Penn
Yale
U Michigan
Princeton
WashUStL
Harvard

Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, U Penn-Wharton will almost always be the preferred choice. Probably Yale as well.

Duke, U Michigan, & U Penn (non-Wharton admits) are probably 50/50.

Northwestern is likely to be the preferred choice over WashUStL for most.

You don’t seem to understand what overlap means

[Anonymous]

Northwestern seems to be in the news a lot these days. The hazing scandal is widening and the lawsuits are coming

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northwestern seems to be in the news a lot these days. The hazing scandal is widening and the lawsuits are coming

It’s board is under fire too

https://evanstonroundtable.com/2023/07/27/ready-to-edit-shrouded-in-secrecy-an-analysis-of-northwesterns-board/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northwestern seems to be in the news a lot these days. The hazing scandal is widening and the lawsuits are coming

It’s board is under fire too

https://evanstonroundtable.com/2023/07/27/ready-to-edit-shrouded-in-secrecy-an-analysis-of-northwesterns-board/

Wow, didn’t know there were so many issues with NU leadership. Although I guess I’m not surprised. It’s the leadership that sets the culture for the school and why they are in the pickle they are in now

[Anonymous]

It’s what happens when the vast majority of the Board of Trustees are finance people. That means they only care about one thing…and it’s not academics. Would think twice about sending my kid to such a toxic environment

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