Northwestern less popular in DC area?
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Anonymous
| NW is recognized as a great school at our NE private, but tends to lose out because of location. Most kids try to ED somewhere similar on the east coast. The kids who get into NW RD often also get into a T15 nearer to home and often prefer that. Kids who are excited about Chicago area tend to think U of Chicago is a more likely ED admit and will often try that instead. But the kids who wind up at NW seem to like it. |
Anonymous
Go to their admissions page and see all the ways to "connect" - and then do them all. |
Anonymous
It is intense. Mine has been taking 4 I think, but one is usually a lab. I’m not sure if that’s normal or not. The semester she doubled up on classes with labs was the worst because the labs have tons of hours so she just had so many hours in class. I think it’s best for kids who like a fast pace and are pretty organized. |
Anonymous
Yeah but it’s just an accounting trick. They get close to a billion a year in fed money and are giving the admin something like 25M a year over 3 years. I don’t think they committed to anything really enforceable and they’ve stressed that they maintain control over academics, faculty, etc. it’s all a stupid game. Unfortunately, Trump is like the mafia and the idea of stopping all federally funded research at the school just wasn’t tenable. I’m the first person to want to stick it to Trump….but it’s really bad for America if we let him freeze research funding to our country’s best researchers and students. |
Anonymous
I’m sort of “the right kind of lawyer” for this and the answer is who the f— knows. The federal courts are peppered with crazy incompetent Trump appointees now so if you can a bad judge or a bad panel draw, you could end up with a terrible decision. And who knows what the Supreme Court will do with this sort of thing. There seems to be very few things they actually care about. But I think the bigger problem is that the big research schools don’t have the money to really carry all their labs while they fight in court — they did it for months so labs wouldn’t have to close but they can’t do that for years. On the upside, the Trump lawyers are all terrible, so I think the university lawyers are all running circles around them with the agreements and not really agreeing to much at all. |
Anonymous
| I'm just curious how UChicago and NW see each other, anyone have any ideas? I am sure both are looked on very favorably by Chicagoans, but, similar to the Boston schools, I wonder how they mesh... |
Anonymous
The Greek students hang out together quite a bit (NU sororities have event with UChicaho frats). Nice commingling. |
Anonymous
Well for one, NU is where you would go for engineering. They have a great program that is ABET certified. U Chicago doesn’t have this |
Anonymous
How do determine that? |