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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to NU and had a really good time there.  If you like to dabble on other activities it's a good school to do stuff like music and theater while taking a variety of classes.  Plus the football games are free to all students.  Evanston can be a little bubble but you can also get into Chicago easily.  I did a STEM degree and having a break by doing music helped keep me from stressing myself out all the time.

However, the price has more than doubled since I graduated 10ish years ago.  They were by far the most generous with financial aid than other schools I got into at the time, so there's that.  I got a pretty generous grant from them when no one else offered anything. But it's just crazy how much the cost has gone up in such a short time.[/quote]

Parent to a recent Northwestern grad here, and yes, that's certainly one of the key selling points of the university, and something Gwynne Shotwell talked about in her commencement speech last week: She knew she wanted to be an engineer but didn't want to be surrounded by other engineers her entire time in college. If you're a high-performing student interested in any of Northwestern's "spiked" fields that it's really good at (engineering, certain humanities/STEM fields, theater, journalism, film, music) but also know you don't want to be at [I]just[/I] an engineering school or a conservatory or what-have-you, Northwestern's the place. I don't think there's another school in the country that does that as well as NU does.

But yes, the cost is nothing to sneeze at, and they jack up the tuition every year. Their fin aid office however is fabulous and we were able to get generous funding all four years for our kid. Certainly a bit more expensive than if they had chosen an in-state school, but cheaper than the other private options they had been considering. We'll see now how well that degree pays off post-graduation...![/quote]

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