FYI: NU rankings in 2008 USN

Colleges and Universities A-Z Northwestern University
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<p>I think it's safe to say that it's very easy for girls to get into the engineering school, especially if you do ED. If you are planning to transfer back and forth, I hear it's hard to transfer into the engineering school, simply because of the engineering core EA curriculum.</p>

<p>Also, since we were talking about the EA curriculum earlier, I'd like to point out that it sucks, but I do believe that what we learn is very practical and applicable. (EA3, however, is completely useless (it's a mix of EA2 and 4)). What's a REALLY great class is EDC, engineering design and communication, where you actually get a problem in the real world and learn the design process and make an actual object that is well designed to assist them, and you learn communication to document your design process and communicate your ideas. </p>

<p>If you want to do Econ, and engineering, yeah, I'd highly recommend Industrial Engineering (IEMS), it's basically the engineering counterpart to econ, and you have a lot of overlap classes. Also, for engineering, you have humanities requirements, which you can use Econ to satisfy, so it's really not that bad at all. </p>

<p>Northwestern also has a new business certificate, which accepts only 50 people a year but is supposed to be comparable to a degree from Wharton at Upenn. It's extremely competitive I hear, so keep that in mind. It can be found here:
<a href="http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/certificate/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/certificate/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Also, I think a lot of people on this board are very ambitious with double degrees and the like, but they soon realize how difficult it is to do that at NU. Pure Econ is fine lol. </p>

<p>Also, CS at NU isn't that great, but it's being fused with EE which should make it stronger.</p>

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<p>Hmm, exactly how easy is it to get into the engineering school [as a girl]? My Math SAT is only a 710... not going to look too great to the admissions committee I think.
I might try industrial engineering if I have a better chance at the engineering school. Otherwise, WCAS fits me just as well.</p>

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If you are planning to transfer back and forth, I hear it's hard to transfer into the engineering school, simply because of the engineering core EA curriculum.

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<p>I think he's referring to transfer after school starts. What he's saying is that the EA is a 4-course sequence. So you can't just transfer there in winter quarter because you can't register for EA2 when you haven't taken EA1 yet. You can get accepted to Weinberg and then ask to transfer to Tech before the school starts; it's easy if I am not mistaken.</p>

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I think it's safe to say that it's very easy for girls to get into the engineering school, especially if you do ED.

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<p>Is this part true as well? Just curious. </p>

<p>Currently, I'm thinking that WCAS would probably be the best choice for me anyway. I hope I can manage to double major in something in addition to economics though, just in case I cannot get into the field that I want to.</p>