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[quote=Anonymous]I went to NU about ten years ago. I majored in a STEM subject but minored in liberal arts.  This is sort of a random collection of thoughts.

If she wants to do engineering. I'll warn you, STEM at NU is very tough.  There's a joke among engineering freshman that you can't spell death without EA (the first year class sequence everyone takes).  It didn't stop there, when I was a senior I was in their high level thermo class made up only of Chem and Chem E seniors and the average on our first midterm was a 19.  On the other hand, I once had a math class they graded on a strict third curve so my 94 turned into a B-.  That sucked. Some of the classes were just brutal and there was a heavy sink or swim culture at least in my major.  However at NU when I was there pretty much all classes were taught by full professors so that's pretty valuable.

It was also pretty easy to find a professor to work in their lab and I got my name on a few papers as an undergrad.

The co op program was great and really helped students get work experience and jobs.  If you go into engineering, highly recommend it.

However, I minored in English Lit and those classes were much calmer and easier, so liberal arts is quite a bit more chill and the professors more supportive. Because the school is relatively small I never had trouble really getting classes I wanted or needed.  I took some really neat classes completely outside of my.major like linguistics.

I also got to sing in choir and do tech for some plays.  My best friend did marching band all four years and loved it (she was in the Journalism school).  I will admit not getting into Chicago as much as I should have.

Yes, it dies get very cold.  NU is right on the lake.  Bundle up in a good coat and you'll be fine.

You did say money isn't an issue, but I will say I got a generous grant from NU when no one else would give me aid (I also got into Michigan out of state and it would have cost more than twice as much).

As I don't have experience with UVA, I can't head to head.  On the whole, eh, I think the way they ran some of their STEM classes was crazy pants.  But I got to do a lot of stuff outside of my major that may have been harder at a bigger school. On the whole, I had a good time there.  If I had to do it over I might have picked a different major, but I'd probably still go to NU.[/quote]

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