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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at the rabid Northwestern parent trying to hold it together, knowing they are paying 2.5x more than a UCLA parent for an education that is only going to be perceived as “bless their heart, their kid couldn’t even get into an Ivy - not even Cornell!” …[/quote]

How is the weather in 1982?[/quote]

NP. Not even 1982... that poster's thinking might have made sense in the 1940s, lol.[/quote]

Lol at sending your kid to dreary flyover country (b-b-but it’s Evanston, not Chicago!) after they failed to get an Ivy bid or into Duke, still paying almost $400K for the trouble, and then realizing that your consolation prize is “dunking” on the unwashed whose kids are enjoying a quality of life in college that is 10 - 20x that of your kid’s experience.

If it ain’t a marketing MBA at Kellogg, NU can piss off in my book … true 30 years ago, true today.[/quote]

Wow. Sometimes it's genuinely sad to see parents, whose kids were presumably rejected from certain schools, carry that chip on their shoulder so vigorously.

I hope you know that you're not alone. Northwestern rejects most students, and it's not a reflection of your kid or your parenting. But railing against it on online forums like this doesn't do your mental health any good, I promise![/quote]

And I promise my kid didn’t even consider applying to Northwestern. For some elite students, quality of life matters - if HYPSM isn’t in the cards, why would any applicant knowingly surrender quality of life for 3-4 years at a Plan B school in a shitty region of the country?[/quote]

The easy answer for you, then, is just don't apply.[/quote]

lol plan B.  Wtf wants to be in Durham over Evanston.[/quote]

Evanston is way better than half the ivies, in terms of location.  Has the PP even been there?  I spent 4 years there---it was a great place and it's 1000X better now.  Chicago is a great city and you are only a 20 min L ride away. 
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Streams are being crossed here.

NU lacks Ivy prestige, so being “way better” than New Haven or MH/Harlem is irrelevant. Its location is being considered in the context of this: “You’re not going to be getting the prestige of an Ivy education and degree, so now are you also going to endure 3-4 years in Evanston, Illinois or Ann Arbor, Michigan or Los Angeles, California?”

I’ll leave it to you to consult with student ratings (and maybe common sense) regarding the self-evident quality of life differences in those three areas.[/quote]

Unaffiliated with NU. "Ivy prestige" is not monolithic. I'd put Northwestern "above" Cornell and Dartmouth on the prestige scale, perhaps on par with Brown and UPenn.[/quote]

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