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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what we’re thinking as well.  Is there any case/area of study would you would consider Northwestern over UofM?  While we can pay Northwestern without issue, UofM instate tuition is so much less. I can’t help but to consider the value of the money spent. [/quote]

It makes zero sense unless your kid has a strong affinity to NU. [/quote]

The main difference is 8K undergrads vs 20k+ undergrads.  So smaller campus, more kids who are actively involved in a variety of majors (very common to double major, or double triple minor in something totally unrelated).    
Then again, we let our DC pick between two very similar schools (both with 6K undergrads, similar schools) and our DC chose the full pay $85K+ vs the one with $40K+ merit per year (so only $40-45K/year).

IMO they are very different schools.  My kids would struggle at a school with 300+ in many classes and one with that many students.

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You’re comparing smallish colleges/universities with a Michigan and Northwestern. Even NU has 50% more undergraduates than the schools you mentioned.  Neither school will have a LAC feel.  [/quote]

NU has approximately 8K undergrads.  Not 12K (as you stated).  It most definately has a much smaller feel than UMich.  Never stated it was LAC/2-3K size. But outside of large freshman stem courses (1st year chem and 2nd year Orgo, Phsyics) most courses are less than 50.  And 30+ years ago chem was a large lecture (300 with smaller discussions/labs) and physics was 75-100 max.  Otherwise every other course was 50 or smaller.  No sitting in calculus for 250+ like at UMich.

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NU has approximately 9000 undergraduates. That is 50% more than the 6,000 undergraduates that were claimed by the pp. 100% more would be 12,000.  Simple math. [/quote]

I claimed 8K originally.  No argument that NU is still a very different experience than UMIch.  8 or 9K is still a "smaller" school (not 2.-3K LA size but definately much smaller).

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