Anonymous
06/03/2023 20:19
Subject: Thoughts on Northwestern?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Heard that many students dislike the quarter system at Northwestern.
Maybe. The quarter system allows students to triple major which may not be the best option for such high achieving, driven students.
No wasted time in a quarter system. More real world like. (Dartmouth College does it best as students just take 3 courses per trimester which is the same as a quarter system. Life is good at Dartmouth.)
Northwestern students are serious students even though kind & down-to-earth.
Sounds like a overgeneralization. Depends on the individual.
And not at all my niece’s experience.
Like PP said, one individual
Anonymous
06/03/2023 20:18
Subject: Thoughts on Northwestern?
Anonymous wrote:Best way in is through ROTC.
Same for all the most selective schools.
Anonymous
06/03/2023 20:17
Subject: Thoughts on Northwestern?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Heard that many students dislike the quarter system at Northwestern.
Maybe. The quarter system allows students to triple major which may not be the best option for such high achieving, driven students.
No wasted time in a quarter system. More real world like. (Dartmouth College does it best as students just take 3 courses per trimester which is the same as a quarter system. Life is good at Dartmouth.)
Northwestern students are serious students even though kind & down-to-earth.
Sounds like a overgeneralization. Depends on the individual.
And not at all my niece’s experience.
Anonymous
06/03/2023 20:08
Subject: Thoughts on Northwestern?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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?
Northwestern = Duke
How is that?
Anonymous
06/03/2023 20:02
Subject: Re:Thoughts on Northwestern?
^^^ this exactly. My DC is a rising senior at NU, and loves the school for all the above reasons. DC is a very independent, motivated, organized student who is pre-med, thriving in a stem double-major while enjoying a great social life, extracurriculars, and attending all the Big 10 sports events, as well as going into the city regularly for more sports, museums, and live music. We're from the DMV, and I would never have predicted that NU would be such a perfect fit. (For me, the only downside is that it's far away.)
Agree with all the previous posters that the quarter system is not for the faint-hearted. Academically, it's very intense, so know what you're getting into (in fact, we've dissuaded our other children from going that route).
Agree with all the previous posters that the quarter system is not for the faint-hearted. Academically, it's very intense, so know what you're getting into (in fact, we've dissuaded our other children from going that route).
Anonymous
06/03/2023 19:30
Subject: Re:Thoughts on Northwestern?
Northwestern is in a unique category. It has top notch academics, but is also part of the Big 10 sports league. It’s a school for really smart kids who are also social and like to go to games, parties, etc. In that way, it’s probably most similar to Duke. But Northwestern also has a great college town a few blocks away and is half an hour from a major city. I can’t think of other schools that have these same characteristics.
Anonymous
06/03/2023 18:36
Subject: Thoughts on Northwestern?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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?
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.
Spectacularly wrong.
Anonymous
06/03/2023 18:23
Subject: Thoughts on Northwestern?
Best way in is through ROTC.
Anonymous
06/03/2023 18:20
Subject: Thoughts on Northwestern?
Anonymous wrote: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?
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.
Anonymous
06/03/2023 17:49
Subject: Thoughts on Northwestern?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Heard that many students dislike the quarter system at Northwestern.
Maybe. The quarter system allows students to triple major which may not be the best option for such high achieving, driven students.
No wasted time in a quarter system. More real world like. (Dartmouth College does it best as students just take 3 courses per trimester which is the same as a quarter system. Life is good at Dartmouth.)
Northwestern students are serious students even though kind & down-to-earth.
Sounds like a overgeneralization. Depends on the individual.
Anonymous
06/03/2023 17:46
Subject: Thoughts on Northwestern?
Anonymous wrote:Heard that many students dislike the quarter system at Northwestern.
Maybe. The quarter system allows students to triple major which may not be the best option for such high achieving, driven students.
No wasted time in a quarter system. More real world like. (Dartmouth College does it best as students just take 3 courses per trimester which is the same as a quarter system. Life is good at Dartmouth.)
Northwestern students are serious students even though kind & down-to-earth.
Anonymous
06/03/2023 16:29
Subject: Thoughts on Northwestern?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To use a favorite DCUM term, its an Ivy-reject school
Not exactly. They definitely lose a lot of students to ivies but they likely win a majority of cross-admits against Cornell at least.
No, they lose cross admits to even Cornell.
Maybe those kids want to run a Ramada Inn or a farm.
Nothing wrong with that!! Not everyone needs to be, or should be, in finance.
Just pointing out there are specific curricular reasons why someone might select a school over another.
Well, isn't there always a reason? And I doubt the Cornell hotel management graduates run a Ramada Inn so you were really just being dismissive.
What's wrong with Ramada's?
Besides you, who said there was anything wrong?
Anonymous
06/03/2023 16:28
Subject: Thoughts on Northwestern?
Heard that many students dislike the quarter system at Northwestern.
Anonymous
06/03/2023 16:28
Subject: Thoughts on Northwestern?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To use a favorite DCUM term, its an Ivy-reject school
Not exactly. They definitely lose a lot of students to ivies but they likely win a majority of cross-admits against Cornell at least.
No, they lose cross admits to even Cornell.
Maybe those kids want to run a Ramada Inn or a farm.
Nothing wrong with that!! Not everyone needs to be, or should be, in finance.
Just pointing out there are specific curricular reasons why someone might select a school over another.
Well, isn't there always a reason? And I doubt the Cornell hotel management graduates run a Ramada Inn so you were really just being dismissive.
What's wrong with Ramada's?
Anonymous
06/03/2023 16:23
Subject: Thoughts on Northwestern?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To use a favorite DCUM term, its an Ivy-reject school
Not exactly. They definitely lose a lot of students to ivies but they likely win a majority of cross-admits against Cornell at least.
No, they lose cross admits to even Cornell.
Maybe those kids want to run a Ramada Inn or a farm.
Nothing wrong with that!! Not everyone needs to be, or should be, in finance.
Just pointing out there are specific curricular reasons why someone might select a school over another.
Well, isn't there always a reason? And I doubt the Cornell hotel management graduates run a Ramada Inn so you were really just being dismissive.