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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our competitive public school - the editor in chief of the school paper.

You really should visit if you can before applying. There are some schools - I'm thinking Northwestern, Stanford, Duke - that have this reputation as fun, smart schools.

Well, that was some time ago.

We visited. The lake is beautiful of course. But when Chicago seems like the more fun school, there might be an issue.  [/quote]

Wowza. Care to elaborate?[/quote]

Different poster. My kid graduated from NU in 2018. Kid was athletic, middle-class Midwestern family, Hispanic, smart but not obsessive about academics. It was surprising how few similar students were there.

Students tended to be coastal, from families with apparently endless wealth, well-traveled, &  far more interested in studying on a Saturday afternoon than cheering on the football team.

Politically, students who weren’t far left had to keep it on the down low or risk ostracism. Students rarely ventured into Chicago except for organized events such as fraternity balls.

In other words, it was very much like the intense academic experience one expects at U of Chicago, not a work-hard/play-hard place at all. [/quote]

They are called date parties, not “balls”.

The normal kids that we know that are there now go to Chicago every weekend because the social life in Evanston sucks. It’s a pretty dead campus on the weekends. Agree that it is not as fun and social as it once was.[/quote]

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