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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're very close with two young gals that recently graduated from Northwestern and their experience seemed far more state school than elite private. [b]If it weren't for US News, the crazy tiger parents from the coasts wouldn't be anywhere near so obsessed with it.[/b] It's a good college if you're in the Chicago burbs or in the Midwest and your kid can take a train there and back -- but it's truly not anything to obsess over.[/quote]

I think there is some truth to it.

What about UChicago? How does it compare to NU?[/quote]

Peer schools with a lot in common. NU has Big Ten sports (some kids might be into football and basketball), Chicago doesn't. Their grad programs are stellar, I don't think very many people are super impressed to see NU or UChicago undergrad. Quintessential "good school(s)" -- [b]but certainly not jumping off the page like an Ivy, MIT, Duke or Stanford.[/b][/quote]

You are overselling Duke there.  Not same level as MIT and Stanford.

[b]Chicago, at least, would be perceived above Cornell, probably somewhere near Brown. [/b]

[b]I am thinking Chicago would be clearly favored over Northwestern among cross-admits.[/b][/quote]

Nope, nope.

And nope.[/quote]

Well, Parchment data says your nopes are misplaced.

https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=University+of+Chicago&with=Cornell+University

https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=University+of+Chicago&with=Northwestern+University[/quote]

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