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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine decided yesterday.  I was like, just have a decision logged at some point Friday.  It's Brown for the win!!!![/quote]

I am so happy for you! And I am an NU alum, too, with one dc who graduated in 2020.

My honest opinion: NU is a great school, but it's not worth $83k. If my dc had lived in a dorm senior year, it would have cost $71k (it was less because dc lived in an apartment). That was just three years ago! There's a point where you just say it's ridiculous and steer your kids to other schools. [/quote]

Thank you!! To be fair, NU offered good financial aid, but Brown was about 8k less in the end, which does make a difference.  And, I'm excited about students being able to propose things and get grant money for that purpose. [/quote]

Another point in favor of Brown is that it is consistently on the list of "happiest" schools, while NU never is. Before people start slamming this as a fluff reason, I have hired several relatively recent NU graduates (graduated pre covid, but within the past five years), and all of them said, in one form or another, that while they got an excellent education, the students were grim and unfriendly, and many students couldn't seem to find the balance between being ultra competitive and being a kind human being. One of my hires was very depressed at one point and contemplated suicide. We have relatives in the Chicago area and took a tour of the school while visiting a month ago. The students did not look happy, and we did not get a warm vibe. By contrast, I hear good things about the Brown campus.

Of course, this is an extremely limited data set, but it does not inspire confidence.[/quote]

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