<p>bad year for the south huh</p>
<p>I'm from Houston and was accepted (computer science), as was a friend of mine who applied for biology and basson... I think... His older brother is a current student there. I don't know anyone else who applied from my school.</p>
<p>I'm from San Antonio and I got in (Weinberg), I don't know if anybody else from our school applied, and whenever I talk about Northwestern people don't really know what the school is.</p>
<p>My son and another student from his high school were accepted from down here in South Texas.</p>
<p>I'm from Texas and a student at NU now, and this year there is quite a strong representation from Texas people. I think it is the 5th most-represented state, with about 80 kids in the class of 2008. At least 5 people from Texas live on my floor alone!</p>
<p>I too am from south Texas and we had 3 or 4 people get in from my high school that I know of.</p>
<p>I live in San Francisco, and, hmm, i have the same problem as readytoleavehs ... most people at my HS don't know about NU. Granted, they're mostly the not-so-smart ones who's college search extended only so far down as long beach, east as chico and north as humboldt.. but still.
Many people confuse it with northeastern, which doesnt make any sense, because they're entirely different caliber students (I am often insulted when people assume that the peak of my college ambition is to go to the 5th or 6th best university in boston...).. but I guess more people at my HS know of it because they're much more likely to consider a chance going there than they are to consider Northwestern.
I tell them "Think Stanford, but in Chicago" and they say "nuh uh" (our school is trained to hate stanford because we've had about 2 kids in 10 years who go there, and about 15 or 20 kids every year get in to berkeley (which I guess dispells the myth that those two schools are made of equal student bodies)).</p>
<p>I was in San Antonio for a few days last december (to visit my brother who was doing his NU Medill teaching-media internship there).. nice, friendly town. Boy, does all 400 miles of Rural west texas highway smell like horse**** and oil or what?
Glad to hear that there is such a strong contingent of Texans who are willing to leave texas, join civilization, and perhaps enlighten the rest of us in the zen of barbeque.</p>