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[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)" -- but certainly not jumping off the page like an Ivy, MIT, Duke or Stanford.[/quote]
Chicago/Northwestern are very much to the Midwest what Duke is to the South. Outside of MIT, Stanford, and top Ivies, no name really jumps out. People don't know nor care that schools like Brown/Dartmouth are Ivies[/quote]

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