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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure what to make of it, DS likes it but also likes a number of other schools more. He's considering EDing for "strategic purposes" since it seems a bit easier to get into than some of his higher choices. Is Northwestern more akin to schools like UPenn, Duke, Columbia, and Yale, or more akin schools like Cornell, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, and UChicago?[/quote]

I think that, in terms of the students and classroom experience, it’s probably more like a cushier University of Wisconsin than any of the schools on your list.

It’s a big, polite, Midwestern, sports-supporting tough, very practical school, not a haven for nerds like Columbia. Johns Hopkins or the University of Chicago; not courtly, like I imagine Vanderbilt might be; not cold and isolated, like Cornell; not New York-ish, the way Duke and parts of Columbia seem to be; and not really as pre-professional as Penn seems to be in a hard-edged, suit-wearing.

It has a lot in common with Wash. U. and Emory, on paper, but it’s like the expensive, high-quality but ultimately soulless Adobe Stock photo that Deloitte put on its interesting new report; Wash. U. is like the dreamier watercolor version, by an artist with a short entry in Wikipedia; and Emory is like the oil painting version, done by the artist who painted the portraits of all of the board members at Daddy’s bank.

If I wanted to apply to a school that was like Northwestern, but have a much better chance of getting in, I’d apply to DePaul if I loved Chicago; the University of Wisconsin or the University of Minnesota if I wanted big, solid, friendly, research-focused university in the Midwest; or maybe a place like Syracuse University, Fordham, or the University of Miami if I wanted a comfortable, practical private university with some name recognition and without an insanely low acceptance rate.

But if I had high stats and wanted a bit more prestige, but without extreme admissions insanity, I’d aim for Boston College, Boston University or Northeastern. [/quote]

Spectacularly wrong.[/quote]

+1. That poster has no idea what they're talking about.[/quote]

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