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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With a few Northwestern students earlier today.

They said the school is materially less fun than University of Chicago these days. I was shocked. Some NU kids go to Hyde Park for parties?!?

They said Evanston is dead; Greek life dead; there ads no parties; the busiest place on a Fri/Sat night is the library (the main one plus the tech library)…..some students had regrets choosing Northwestern (over schools like Vanderbilt; Rice; Michigan; Dartmouth; Cornell) but others said it was what they expected and they didn’t come to college for “fun”.

Anyone have recent exp with either school? general student experience? Regrets?

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I went to grad school there in parent times.

I get accused of being an anti-Northwestern troll, because I hated the place. Some of the professors were just so insanely mean. I had a group project with Kellogg MBA students, and they were just so mean and so stupid.

I never saw anyone have any kind of fun remotely related to the school. I can’t remember hearing anyone there talking outside of classroom discussions about consuming any kind of media of any kind.

In the department I was in, many of the professors seemed to have a hard time grasping that there was a world outside Chicagoland.

And that was the only place I’ve ever been in my life where people objected to me missing a class or work because of a Jewish holiday (Rosh Hashannah).

I can believe that the place isn’t much fun for undergrads.

On the other hand…

The classes were truly excellent, well-designed classes. My degree from that place has been extremely useful. My classmates who seemed as if they were competent mostly have great LinkedIn entries.

Evanston is safe and beautiful.

Being in Chicago is great.

So, it’s the perfect place for kids who love Chicago and care more about the quality of classes than about niceness. [/quote]

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