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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For some reason, there are Northwestern haters on this site, as this comes up often.  What did Northwestern ever do to you?  My guess is reject you but . . . In general, you have to sift through a lot of nonsense on this site to get any valuable information but you can piece it together here, and often on most threads.  Never understand why people are so nasty on an anonymous website where they get no credit or recognition for their burns.  But that is the way it goes.

Northwestern is an excellent school with many top notch programs.  Students tend to like it a lot but certainly not for everyone -- strong Greek life, and while that picture of the campus is pretty sweet, it can be brutally cold right there on the lake in winter.  hard to move in and out of majors, particularly the most popular like journalism.  Good sports for a strong academic school.  [b]Campus is a bit small for the number of studetns[/b] and although you can see Chicago from most of it, my impression is that most students do not go in, though you can get to downtown/loop in about 30 minutes and Loyola Chicago is even closer.  Best advice so far:  if your student is interested, apply ED, seems to be nearly essential here, though obviously statistically it is not.  [/quote]

Not my take. My son will be a freshman at NU in the fall, and the distance between his expected dorm on north campus to academic buildings on south campus is nearly a mile. It actually seems like [b]a very stretched out campus to me[/b].[/quote]

I think this is what the PP was referring to by small for the number of students.  The main part(s) of campus was too small to fit all the students/programs so it's been stretched out in sometimes less than ideal ways to house students.  Also there are few programs that have parts in out of the way buildings etc.  Which you don't notice unless those are your programs and then it dominates your daily life.  But this is typically the case when you have an urban or inner ring suburban school. It's not as bad as NYU or some other urban schools, but an issue to know about going in. [/quote]

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