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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is at one and has friends at the other. Both kids are very happy, but they are different. Just check out the crow at at Northwestern football game vs a UChicago game. UChicago has a lot of frat parties if your kid wants that. Schools are also different in that UChicagohas one liberal arts school with a shared core curriculum experience. Northwestern has kids studying different things in different colleges like engineering vs journalism vs music vs liberal arts. What’s great about NU is that they let you have majors across the different schools so you’re not “stuck”. My kid loved both but they’re different enough that yiur kid will like one more than the other. The friends at these schools can meet up easily at clubs downtown. [/quote]

How does the crowd at a sporting event differ? Is one nerdier?[/quote]

Northwestern is in the Big 10. Chicago is D3. [/quote]

But this doesn’t match what I hear about on campus? Fraternity parties are dead or dying. Everyone goes downtown now to go out on Friday and Saturday nights and it’s basically a quiet campus Monday through Thursday. Is that what you hear as well?[/quote]

My kid has a very active social life there. It’s not Tulane though. There are not parties every night of the week.  But most weekends there is something. Occasionally on a Thur night there might be a party or something. My kid goes down to Chicago maybe three times a quarter and is on or around campus the rest of the time. Sometimes smaller parties or get togethers and sometimes bigger fraternity parties. 
There is definitely a mix of kids. Some are less social and don’t go to parties. But they are there for those who want them. I would recommend your kid spending some time visiting both and talking to students if they can. We found Northwestern to be a happier place than UChicago, but others disagree. It comes down to the kid, their personality, and what they are looking for. [/quote]

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