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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][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]
So, basically, your prestige-meter just tracks USNWR.

Let's be honest, when people say claim that NU is much better than other schools, they're really just saying it's currently ranked in the T10 by USNWR and the others are not.[/quote]

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