Anonymous
Post 07/27/2023 15:43     Subject: Northwestern
The more common cross admit battles I’ve seen with are Duke, Dartmouth and Cornell
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2023 14:29     Subject: Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What are Northwestern’s closest peer schools in DC area students? Duke, Penn, Cornell, or Georgetown?


Duke, Penn, Johns Hopkins, and UChicago


Add Cornell as well


Northwestern itself states its peers are Columbia, Duke, Emory, WashU, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, Tulane, Cornell, JHU, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, URochester, MIT, Princeton and a few others.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2023 14:07     Subject: Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What are Northwestern’s closest peer schools in DC area students? Duke, Penn, Cornell, or Georgetown?


Duke, Penn, Johns Hopkins, and UChicago


Add Cornell as well
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2023 14:06     Subject: Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:What are Northwestern’s closest peer schools in DC area students? Duke, Penn, Cornell, or Georgetown?


Duke, Penn, Johns Hopkins, and UChicago
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2023 14:05     Subject: Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Northwestern is overhyped here on DCUM.


How do you overhype a T10 university?

And, as PP pointed out, so many unique qualities and top programs.

What's not to hype? (Other than the swarms of flies in spring).


From what I've seen here on DCUM, there are a lot of posts about NU trying to elevate the school to the level of HYP while dissing those schools ranked slightly below it (at least on USNWR). It may be a small group of posters posting over and over again but still it gets quite tiresome. If NU is so great, there's really no need to do that.


Show a single instance where anyone has tried to elevate NU to the level of HYP. You seem genuinely delusional.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2023 11:09     Subject: Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:The only people in DD’s school who got in this year were URM. Being the right race helps you get into Northwestern. Plenty of smart kids applied. But the URM got in.


Are you serious ?

Northwestern University is full of brilliant, hard-working,ambitious students regardless of race.

Northwestern's student body is composed of mostly white, then Asian, Jewish, Hispanic, international, and then AA/black.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2023 08:49     Subject: Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:The only people in DD’s school who got in this year were URM. Being the right race helps you get into Northwestern. Plenty of smart kids applied. But the URM got in.

Stop that nonsense.
At my DD 's school (diverse public), the admits that we know were 3 white, 2 Asian, 1 urm. At the DC admitted students mixer, it was largely white/Asian. Stop trying to make "URM stole my spot" a thing. There are not that many URMs at NU!
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2023 08:28     Subject: Northwestern
The only people in DD’s school who got in this year were URM. Being the right race helps you get into Northwestern. Plenty of smart kids applied. But the URM got in.
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2023 23:13     Subject: Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:What are Northwestern’s closest peer schools in DC area students? Duke, Penn, Cornell, or Georgetown?


And Vandy? Wash U? Emory?
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2023 23:05     Subject: Northwestern
And Penn…
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2023 23:04     Subject: Northwestern
Duke, of course!
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2023 23:01     Subject: Northwestern
What are Northwestern’s closest peer schools in DC area students? Duke, Penn, Cornell, or Georgetown?
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2023 22:04     Subject: Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Northwestern is overhyped here on DCUM.


How do you overhype a T10 university?

And, as PP pointed out, so many unique qualities and top programs.

What's not to hype? (Other than the swarms of flies in spring).


From what I've seen here on DCUM, there are a lot of posts about NU trying to elevate the school to the level of HYP while dissing those schools ranked slightly below it (at least on USNWR). It may be a small group of posters posting over and over again but still it gets quite tiresome. If NU is so great, there's really no need to do that.


I have not noticed any of this.

I have never read a post that tries to elevate Northwestern to the level of Harvard, Yale, or Princeton other than a brief comment about the theater program at NU versus that at Yale.

The biggest difference between H, Y, P, S, & MIT and lower ranked top 10 or top 15 universities is each school's endowment. The top 5 (Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, & MIT) are in a class by themselves.

Dissing lower ranked schools ? Are you referring to comparisons between NU & other T-15 universities ? If so, that is done for all schools which attract similar applicants.

+1 I have not noticed anything like what PP was claiming either. Sounds like a pot stirrer.


+2
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2023 21:02     Subject: Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Northwestern is overhyped here on DCUM.


How do you overhype a T10 university?

And, as PP pointed out, so many unique qualities and top programs.

What's not to hype? (Other than the swarms of flies in spring).


From what I've seen here on DCUM, there are a lot of posts about NU trying to elevate the school to the level of HYP while dissing those schools ranked slightly below it (at least on USNWR). It may be a small group of posters posting over and over again but still it gets quite tiresome. If NU is so great, there's really no need to do that.


I have not noticed any of this.

I have never read a post that tries to elevate Northwestern to the level of Harvard, Yale, or Princeton other than a brief comment about the theater program at NU versus that at Yale.

The biggest difference between H, Y, P, S, & MIT and lower ranked top 10 or top 15 universities is each school's endowment. The top 5 (Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, & MIT) are in a class by themselves.

Dissing lower ranked schools ? Are you referring to comparisons between NU & other T-15 universities ? If so, that is done for all schools which attract similar applicants.

+1 I have not noticed anything like what PP was claiming either. Sounds like a pot stirrer.
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2023 20:56     Subject: Northwestern
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Northwestern is overhyped here on DCUM.


How do you overhype a T10 university?

And, as PP pointed out, so many unique qualities and top programs.

What's not to hype? (Other than the swarms of flies in spring).


From what I've seen here on DCUM, there are a lot of posts about NU trying to elevate the school to the level of HYP while dissing those schools ranked slightly below it (at least on USNWR). It may be a small group of posters posting over and over again but still it gets quite tiresome. If NU is so great, there's really no need to do that.


I have not noticed any of this.

I have never read a post that tries to elevate Northwestern to the level of Harvard, Yale, or Princeton other than a brief comment about the theater program at NU versus that at Yale.

The biggest difference between H, Y, P, S, & MIT and lower ranked top 10 or top 15 universities is each school's endowment. The top 5 (Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, & MIT) are in a class by themselves.

Dissing lower ranked schools ? Are you referring to comparisons between NU & other T-15 universities ? If so, that is done for all schools which attract similar applicants.