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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious to hear people's firsthand experiences there. It seems to check all the boxes for a classic college experience:

1. Greek life and football
2. Excellent academics across the board
3. Strong arts programs and a thriving school newspaper
4. Prime location outside, but not right in, a major city (best of both worlds)

Are there any down sides to this school? It sounds almost too good to be true. [/quote]

The weather is severe and awful.

They game the selectivity rate by overly focusing on ED (forced binding applications) to fill majority of slots so their yield rate goes up and application rate goes down.[/quote]

Odd selection of factors.  I graduated from a North Shore high school and virtually no one matriculated at NU.  Perhaps understandable given it was too close to home and Univ of Illinois is a far better deal. The other thing is that a significant major is communications, not all that rigorous.  It shares that feature with UNC Chapel Hill.  But yes an excellent school. My best friend did go to Medill and is indeed the best writer I know.  The school attracts talent.

The football program is rarely competitive and in today's Power 4 and NIL landscape they like won't be competitive in the future.  Illinois is a not a particularly fertile football recruiting ground and the four and five stars get taken by Notre Dame, Michigan and Ohio State.  Not much excitement with NU football. They have the smallest participation in the Big Ten in male sports and they have a few great women's programs, in particular lacrosse.   Not a school to go to follow Power 4 sports.  [/quote]

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