Northwestern

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only people in DD’s school who got in this year were URM. Being the right race helps you get into Northwestern. Plenty of smart kids applied. But the URM got in.

First, URMs are among the "plenty of smart kids." Second, Northwestern is 41% white and 16% Asian. Only 6% black.

Pretty much like any PWI: whites dominate and primarily via average ADLC admits.

[Anonymous]

NU had a tough & imaginative president (Shapiro) for years. His replacement is having a little trouble settling in, to put it politely. I don’t envy him. This is a tough time to please people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NU had a tough & imaginative president (Shapiro) for years. His replacement is having a little trouble settling in, to put it politely. I don’t envy him. This is a tough time to please people.

Morton Schapiro

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only people in DD’s school who got in this year were URM. Being the right race helps you get into Northwestern. Plenty of smart kids applied. But the URM got in.

Are you serious ?

Northwestern University is full of brilliant, hard-working,ambitious students regardless of race.

Northwestern's student body is composed of mostly white, then Asian, Jewish, Hispanic, international, and then AA/black.

The “brilliant” young lady my DD knows who got into NU for engineering can’t spell apparently. Very good in math but had to ask my DD for help on English writing assignments and spelled the word “because” like this- Becuz

Sounds brilliant to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Actually, I do. Do you ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only people in DD’s school who got in this year were URM. Being the right race helps you get into Northwestern. Plenty of smart kids applied. But the URM got in.

Are you serious ?

Northwestern University is full of brilliant, hard-working,ambitious students regardless of race.

Northwestern's student body is composed of mostly white, then Asian, Jewish, Hispanic, international, and then AA/black.

The “brilliant” young lady my DD knows who got into NU for engineering can’t spell apparently. Very good in math but had to ask my DD for help on English writing assignments and spelled the word “because” like this- Becuz

Sounds brilliant to me.

Well, it seems obvious that you have pursued this topic in depth becuz you exhibit intelligent, eye-opening insights. I think we all need to defer to your one bit of questionable anecdotal evidence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Actually, I do. Do you ?

Despite your protest, you quite obviously don’t.

[Anonymous]

Well, those who can afford would likely continue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

No, the core curriculum is quite distinct. Some students will enjoy a core, most will not.