<p>This must be common....anyone else?</p>
<p>You say this as if it’s a bad thing…</p>
<p>Um, no. It’s not as common as you’d think it is. NU is an amazing school. It’s the most prestigious journalism school in the nation; its HPME program is ridiculously respected, not to mention theatre, engineering, education, etc. There are people everywhere who would LOVE to go to Northwestern, and they’ve spent their entire lives trying to get into NU, not ivies. Your attitude disgusts me. Respect those who actually love Northwestern. It sucks that I’ll see you around next year. 
Yep. Have a great day.</p>
<p>Agreed.
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<p>Samesies. Id rather go to NU over most if not all the iveys. Granted I am midwest biased but still, thats not the attitude u want towards your home for the next 4 years.</p>
<p>As a second thought, I truly am sorry you didn’t get into your top school. I do hope you come to love Northwestern and I ask you to please be respectful towards others’ dreams.</p>
<p>^ good point.</p>
<p>I’m sorry. I’m just still dazed/angry about all my rejections today and the past few weeks. And I really do hope I come to love Northwestern, but when you see threads like these:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/northwestern-university-2013/675472-potential-applicants-read.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/northwestern-university-2013/675472-potential-applicants-read.html</a></p>
<p>It scares the hell out of me. I don’t know what to do; I can still choose the state school over this so I’m up in the air.</p>
<p>Go with the state school bud…</p>
<p>You have to remember, though, that this is one opinion. You’ll find similar situations in any university you go to; the support is rather general. You should also read the posts underneath, with dozens of current students arguing the original poster’s points. You should come to a “Wildcat Day” before you make your decision; you may be surprised.</p>
<p>I am not an NU student. But I think NU is only full of ppl who got rejected from HYPSM. Lower ivies are not superior to NU.</p>
<p>OP: Did you actually visit/research all the schools you applied to? Have you visited NU? Please don’t take this the wrong way, but based on the title of your thread, it looks like you applied to schools based only on prestige. My apologies in advance if I’m wrong, but that’s what it looks like.</p>
<p>If that’s the case, then try visiting Northwestern and really researching it. You might change your mind. And if you didn’t do your research, who knows? Maybe some of those top choices would have been horrible fits for you. You never know.</p>
<p>And yes, while it may be true that many people here are rejects from HYP (I personally was rejected from HYP + Dartmouth), it doesn’t mean that they’re only here because they were rejected from those places, and some people here probably didn’t even apply to them. NU is a FANTASTIC school in its own right, and it’s not difficult to see why it could easily be a first-choice school for many students.</p>
<p>And don’t worry about that thread you pointed out. Like Mimi said, it is one person’s opinion. And in my experience, it is not one that most or even a lot of the students here share.</p>
<p>One last thing: I completely understand what you’re going through right now. This is a tough week, and it will probably sting for a couple more weeks. However, I PROMISE you that getting rejected from HYP etc. is not the end of the world. Things will get better. So it’s completely OK to mope/be upset/be angry/be bitter for a few days. After that, you should start looking forward. And if you really want to go to HYP, there’s always graduate school (this is something that I’m considering).</p>
<p>Good luck, and I hope to see you here next year!</p>
<p>Well, first of all, I just listed all those schools in my title so that I can include in more people. I didn’t apply to ALL of those schools but yes most of them and got rejected. For example, I didn’t apply to Harvard, Yale, and most of the other ivies. I understand your sentiment about people applying for prestige and nothing annoys me more. </p>
<p>Second, my entire family is from Chicago. I visit there every year. I have visited the campus also, and I really liked it. </p>
<p>But it seems that there are several problems listed in the thread that seem to be true, most importantly, the “ivy-reject” mentality that I outlined in my OP. If you keep reading in the thread I pointed out, there are actually two other people who agree with the OP. How many other respectable colleges on CC have that type of discontent in their sub-forum? Does Stanford, Cornell, MIT, etc. have this on CC? It just scares me that there are even three people complaining on one website about one college while other colleges on the same website get almost universal praise.</p>
<p>I was accepted to some of the Ivies + Caltech, Chicago, and Duke, but I’m still probably going to attend Northwestern as part of their HPME program.</p>
<p>The kids I met who’ve gone through Northwestern and/or have gone through HPME absolutely adore the school and can’t say enough good things about it. Honestly, there are people at every college who despise their school/the people around them, but I think for the most part you’ll find kids who are extremelyyy happy at Northwestern.</p>
<p>@hideandseeek:
you rock!! :D:D</p>
<p>Invisible, most students in schools outside of HYPSM were rejected from those schools whether it’s a “lower ivy” or an “ivy equivalent”. That’s just reality since not everybody can get into the top rung. Northwestern does have a lot of students who have the school as their first choice but of course, there will always be those who didn’t get into HYPSM. From what I’ve observed though, people don’t feel inferior to the “lower ivies” (Penn, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, Columbia) since there’s a substantial cross-admit between NU and those schools as well. NU is just as strong as other “lower ivies,” if not stronger (when compared to Brown, Cornell, and Dartmouth especially).</p>
<p>You said you were deciding between a state school and NU. My advice for you is not to enroll at NU since it’s exactly people like you who bring the “ivy reject” mentality to campus (do you realize you currently have it right now as you worry about others having it?).</p>
<p>@hideandseeek, HPME? Very impressive!</p>
<p>@OP, would you honestly consider attending your state school over NU?? Do you honestly think that you would get a better education and set yourself up for success later on in life moreso than if you had attened NU?? I don’t think so, but then again I’m not making the decision.</p>
<p>OP, let me just say that I would do ANYTHING to have your spot at NU. My heart was so set on this school, it’s not even funny. Forget Brown, forget any Ivy- i was CONVINCED NU was what I wanted. When I was rejected, i moved on, and I’m attending an incredible school either way - Barnard or U Maryland - but yeah. Not all of us would necessarily pick an ivy over NU, especially given NU’s great job placement programs.</p>
<p>To the OP, you shouldn’t have posted something like this on the Nortwestern site. I’m going to assume the sting of your rejections clouded you thinking.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about that other thread. It is one disgruntled student’s opinion, it doesn’t represent what people think about the school in general. I know several people who graduated from Northwestern and they all loved it. My daughter applied there but was not accepted. It’s a great school, you’re lucky to be able to go.</p>
<p>From my view I’ve always grouped Northwestern with Cornell. Slightly below Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, and Penn.</p>