@ReallyOk, Northwestern is in the Big Ten.
Thanks for the correction Purple Titan.
^ Not at all.
I have a feeling the blind are leading the blind here…jeez…
Both are excellent schools - don’t see how one could be considered better than the other except in the eye of the beholder.
Disclaimer: NU undergrad- accepted, but couldn’t afford Fletcher School for grad school. Anyone should be proud of going to either.
yeah northwestern is peers with ivies. whoever told the OP that its with tufts & wake forest is so wrong lol
Tufts vs. NU? It’s all about location. There are a zillion people in the Northeast, and almost all of them swoon over the idea of going to college in the Boston area. A surprising ℅ also think of Chicago as a hick town somewhere “out there.” So you can compare stats and rankings and pie charts all day…bottom line is Tufts gets a boost in many prospective students’ eyes due to its location, while Nu takes a hit for its location. Also, to people in the Northeast, pro sports tend to be far more important than college sports…so to a lot of folks from the Northeast, NUs Big 10 affiliation isn’t a factor .,…My kid goes to NU, & says some of the new students (especially from the Northeast) don’t even know which conference NU is in.
I am extremely familiar with both schools - 4 degrees between the two in my immeduate family.
They are both great. It depends where the atmosphere best suits each individual.
My personal preference at this point in time would be NU.
My theory is if you are going to pay full price for a college, you should look at two metrics very carefully, because they are good proxies for where a school might be in a decade or two decades. After all you want that degree to be worth a lot after paying so much money.
These are
Total Endowment:
Northwestern:approx $9.6B
Tufts: approx $1.6 B
Endowment per student:
Northwestern: approx $425K
Tufts: approx $170K
These two schools just don’t compare, because in the long run, NU can out compete Tufts for faculty, students, facilities, etc at every level by spending more. And if the trends in Higher ed are any indication, wealthy schools will dominate the landscape with govt funding of higher education shrinking.
Tufts might be a great school, but it is just not in the same leagues at NU right now. Maybe that will change.
Even when considering student body, they aren’t peers, like previous people have suggested.
2016 admissions statistics show that NU has a 50% range of 1400-1560 (Reading & Math), while Tufts has a range of 1370-1520. Of course, 30 & 40 points isn’t a huge difference, but when you consider that NU had over 600 more students enrolled (typically larger entering classes have lower stats because they are more likely to contain students with lower scores. It’s why CalTech has such high stats but Cornell or any other top level public school has relatively low stats.) AND is a B10 school, meaning they’ll have a lot of student athletes with potentially lower scores (I’m not saying student athletes are dumb, I’m a student Athlete; in fact, most are pretty smart. But they typically do have lower stats than other students at elite schools), bringing down the average. Stanford and Duke suffer from similar situations.
On the new test, NU is 1480-1580 while Tufts is 1440-1550. Again, only a 30 and 40 point difference, but when considering other factors, it’s a significant difference.