Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Curious to hear people's firsthand experiences there. It seems to check all the boxes for a classic college experience:
1. Greek life and football
2. Excellent academics across the board
3. Strong arts programs and a thriving school newspaper
4. Prime location outside, but not right in, a major city (best of both worlds)
Are there any down sides to this school? It sounds almost too good to be true.
The weather is severe and awful.
They game the selectivity rate by overly focusing on ED (forced binding applications) to fill majority of slots so their yield rate goes up and application rate goes down.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Curious to hear people's firsthand experiences there. It seems to check all the boxes for a classic college experience:
1. Greek life and football
2. Excellent academics across the board
3. Strong arts programs and a thriving school newspaper
4. Prime location outside, but not right in, a major city (best of both worlds)
Are there any down sides to this school? It sounds almost too good to be true.
The weather is severe and awful.
They game the selectivity rate by overly focusing on ED (forced binding applications) to fill majority of slots so their yield rate goes up and application rate goes down.
Anonymous wrote:Curious to hear people's firsthand experiences there. It seems to check all the boxes for a classic college experience:
1. Greek life and football
2. Excellent academics across the board
3. Strong arts programs and a thriving school newspaper
4. Prime location outside, but not right in, a major city (best of both worlds)
Are there any down sides to this school? It sounds almost too good to be true.
Anonymous wrote:Curious to hear people's firsthand experiences there. It seems to check all the boxes for a classic college experience:
1. Greek life and football
2. Excellent academics across the board
3. Strong arts programs and a thriving school newspaper
4. Prime location outside, but not right in, a major city (best of both worlds)
Are there any down sides to this school? It sounds almost too good to be true.
Anonymous wrote:Maybe if you’re rich. The kids I know who went were UMC and felt out of place. Lots of big money, expensive private school, daddy buys me every luxury and convenience kind of money. Not like daddy pays my rent. Like daddy picks me up in a private plane and spent $100,000 on my dressage horse kind of money .
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Maybe if you’re rich. The kids I know who went were UMC and felt out of place. Lots of big money, expensive private school, daddy buys me every luxury and convenience kind of money. Not like daddy pays my rent. Like daddy picks me up in a private plane and spent $100,000 on my dressage horse kind of money .
LOL ! The above is pure BS.
Or maybe you're conflating NU with Duke.
Northwestern University does have wealthy students, but wealth is not flaunted or obvious.
Easy to get to Chicago. The campus setting is spectacular, but there really is no center quad. Divided between North side of campus which is mostly engineering & STEM and South campus which is artsy & liberal arts.
Couple of beaches & free sailboats for student use. Spectacular gym placement overlooking Lake Michigan.
Greek life is available if desired, but does not overwhelm the campus social scene.
Fairly low key, very brainy, and accepting.
The campus does make most "Most Beautiful College Campuses" lists, but the architecture is not as cohesive as that found on many small school campuses.
NU students are brilliant, hard-working, ambitious, non-judgmental, & friendly.
To the poster who cried the career office circa 2010, that was during a very tough job market which followed the national real estate market collapse.
Easy access to both US coasts as well as to the largest city in the Midwest (Chicago).
Anonymous wrote:Curious to hear people's firsthand experiences there. It seems to check all the boxes for a classic college experience:
1. Greek life and football
2. Excellent academics across the board
3. Strong arts programs and a thriving school newspaper
4. Prime location outside, but not right in, a major city (best of both worlds)
Are there any down sides to this school? It sounds almost too good to be true.
Anonymous wrote:The student body is heavily quirky. My very smart but mainstream, outgoing kids (jr and sr) toured and didn't see their people at all. This was the same report given by many of their friends when they also visited.
Your mileage may vary and every kid is different so do your research in person! We really wanted to like it---we liked many things but ultimately my kids gave it a strong veto.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Curious to hear people's firsthand experiences there. It seems to check all the boxes for a classic college experience:
1. Greek life and football
2. Excellent academics across the board
3. Strong arts programs and a thriving school newspaper
4. Prime location outside, but not right in, a major city (best of both worlds)
Are there any down sides to this school? It sounds almost too good to be true.
My kid goes there-we all love it. Evanston is awesome although, yes it can be chilly. Definitely visit!
DP here. Can you recommend a casual restaurant in Evanston for our upcoming visit? We are planning to stay for one night at the Hilton Garden Inn.