Am I a good fit for Northwestern?

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<p>I was admitted into Northwestern's Medill school of Journalism and I'm wondering if it's a good fit for me.</p>

<p>I'm a wanna be nerd (I love nerdy and quirky people don't know if I am myself). Getting a good liberal arts education is very important to me, and I love learning and want to learn things that don't necessarily have to do with my major. I also like to participate in class (though I don't think I'm obnoxious in my participation). I hate northfaces and uggs but i can tolerate them on other people as long as their personalities don't follow the northface and ugg stereotype (too many of them at my high school and I want to get away from that). </p>

<p>I'm south asian and I like my culture but I want friends from all sorts of backgrounds, do the races mix much at northwestern? I'm not a huge partier but I like to have a social life and go out with friends. I can be shy socially (although not when giving interviews). I like rock, classic rock, some pop and rap (and hipster music is my guilty pleasure). </p>

<p>I got into a small liberal arts college in that is also on a lake and near a big city lol but their finaid didn't stack up to Northwestern's.</p>

<p>Please let me know if I can find happiness at Northwestern...</p>

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<p>Yes. NU fits a lot of different “types” and it will fit you. It is fabulous.</p>

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<p>Hey thanks for the response WCASParent!</p>

<p>But could I possibly get a more detailed response perhaps from a current student there?</p>

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<p>You’ll probably find fewer quirks at Medill than in WCAS or engineering. That said, there’s full integration of all dorms on campus and you’ll probably befriend even a really cool theater kid or two. Is the campus riddled with intense intellectuals and quirky kids? No. Are there large numbers of intellectuals and quirky kids? Yes. You’ll find happiness on campus. But be prepared for diversity. NU welcomes, and supports, all comers.</p>

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<p>You’ll find a lot of quirky people at NU. Maybe not necessarily so much in Medill than in the whole university, but you will. </p>

<p>And I don’t know much about the “Northface and Ugg” personality, but I haven’t noticed any correlation between people and their persona.</p>

<p>I wouldn’t say that there’s TOO much of mingling b/w different races, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have such friends. </p>

<p>I have friends who’re African American, Hispanic, Spanish, South American… So yeah, you can definitely find it.</p>

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<p>Thanks! </p>

<p>And no offense to any northface/uggs users out there… I have plenty of friends who wear them and it really makes no difference to me at all… and by stereotypical northface and ugg girl (or guy) I basically mean someone who is, on the whole, pretty fake and doesn’t care about much outside her (or his) small, insular, and spoiled life… again definitely not representative of the vast majority of people who wear these garments haha, but a lot of these people in my school seem to worship their northfaces (or maybe I just notice this because I don’t really like nf/uggs and overall I have very little respect for those people and so my mind connects the two together lol).</p>

<p>Anyway I couldn’t care less what people wore and the quirkiness is mainly important to me because the last thing I want is a homogeneous campus full of people with similar personalities (which I’ve heard Northwestern to be, but these may just be rumors started by UChicago-ers haha).</p>

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<p>NU can’t be homogeneous. Engineers, Music majors, Theatre kids, Medillos. There’s variety :)</p>