<p>Alexandre,</p>
<p>While normalizing is often a good practice for comparison, I’d point out that it’s unfair to Northwestern to count all of its population. 1/3 of them are in specialty schools (communications, music, education, and journalism). The students in these fields are less likely to pursue high finance or professional schools. When some of them do pursue them, their majors are less favored by the most prestigious professional schools (top law schools prefer history, English, poli-sci majors, for example). If you are looking at only the numbers in arts and sciences, Northwestern is actually smaller than Chicago (1,000 vs 1,400).</p>
<p>As for GT’s numbers in high finance, they got a huge undergrad business school. They are lacking in science and engineering. It seems natural to me the students there are more skewed toward finance than probably any peers except Penn.</p>
<p>But why do CC members keep focusing on finance? That’s so yesterday. The coolest jobs these days are in Silicon Valley. Many of the smart, ambitious, AND socially responsible grads are not looking at investment banks that arguably screwed our economy in the last decade or so.</p>