<p>Hahaha. Of course, they're worse than NU ;)</p>
<p>Can someone please compare difficulty of NU with ivies, JHU, WashU, Stanford, etc. Is NU harder or easier than these?</p>
<p>it really depends on your major. but i suspect NU has a wider range since it offers more variety of programs and majors under 6 very different schools.</p>
<p>NU is as hard as you make it. I'm a premed engineer taking a full load of honors courses and I get about ~5 hours of sleep a day, but I have friends who go to bed every night at 12 (weinberg wusses)</p>
<p>I go to bed even earlier sometimes.</p>
<p>jonthelin: I'm not concerned with the workload for pre-med engineers ;)</p>
<p>I am applying as not having interest in either, but I am probably going to need to take some math classes (multi, diffeq, linear, probably some other stuff). I would be one of those Weinberg wusses though.</p>
<p>he's not just a pre-med engineer, he's taking full load of honors courses. if you don't take honors, you should have more than 5 hours of sleep. like he said, it's as hard as you make it.</p>
<p>Even if you do, it depends on how smart you are Sam ;)</p>
<p>^of course. </p>
<p>atanas,
how's your second kellogg course so far?</p>
<p>perhaps you can answer this:
how was your FE class different from a typical first course in finance for a MBA (if you know what they teach)? i am curious because the cert program requires more math as prereqs than any MBA i know of.</p>
<p>I would like to hear more about the Kellogg classes as well...</p>
<p>Sam, so the first class they taught us is the Turbo Finance MBA -- that is, the advanced class they teach MBAs with extensive experience, which combines two finance classes for people without enough experience in finance. It was the same teacher who teaches the Turbo class -- in fact when I went over at Kellogg to study on the night before our 1st midterm I heard MBAs discussing similar practice problems. </p>
<p>The second class is again a class taught to MBA, but I think with a bit more math for us (not 100% sure.) We did have to prove the CAPM and econometrics is used rather extensively, I'd imagine more so than in an MBA class. </p>
<p>And, another thing about the finance program -- we had one of the top 5 people of one of the largest hedge funds in the world have an exclusive presentation for us today. It was pretty cool.</p>
<p>Now back to that game theory 2 homework (Sam, you know what I mean.)</p>
<p>what a coincidence! i was just reading "probability: the science of uncertainty" by bean and the last chapter has a section on CAPM. it got "derivation of the CAPM"! lol...wow...that's hardcore!</p>
<p>That's why we have all these pre-reqs. Matrices, econometrics, stats, etc. are used on a regular basis. I like this, although it keeps many potential students away from the program. </p>
<p>What are you reading this "probability: the science of uncertainty" for, brushing up for game theory midterm :)</p>
<p>just some reading on my own; maybe switch out of engineering and become an actuary.</p>
<p>:) Good luck with that</p>
<p>oh yeah i heard he brought you guys pizza. so unfair.</p>
<p>It was good pizza too.</p>
<p>If your goal is to get a really high GPA, then you have to A) be smart and B) work hard. To get a mediocre GPA, though, is not hard to do. (at least in my major) As long as you're intelligent, you can slack off but still make B's and some A's. </p>
<p>I transferred from an university ranked slightly below Northwestern, and I think NU is, in general, harder. </p>
<p>The quarter system, perhaps, makes NU a little bit more challenging. The pace is faster and sometimes I think professors try to squeeze a semester curriculum into a quarter.</p>