<p>is northwestern becoming a school for ivy rejects. i personally am not one, but the other two kids who are going there are going bc "they didnt get in anywhere else." Also, is the student body sub par compared to schools like georgetown and uchicago</p>
<p>Goankit, I don't know you, but you seem like a bit of a pompous jerk. Excuse my French.</p>
<p>Northwestern is a damn fine institution. It's all well and good that you "personally" are not an "Ivy reject," but there are a fair share of students who would either kill to get into NU or give up an Ivy. Your pretension's kind of tiresome after awhile-- NU's not "subpar" to Georgetown or Chicago. I recommend you remove your head from whatever level of superiority you reside in and take into consideration that NU is a fine school. Better, in fact, than it seems you deserve.</p>
<p>The Ivies aren't the end-all-be-all colleges in the nation; they're good, but so are a dozen other schools in the country. Northwestern is a great school; Chicago and Georgetown are great, too, but there's no reason to think you're infinitely better to have received admission into all three. Would you like a cookie with that plate of narcissism? In looking up your statistics, it should be noted that yours are not exemplary in terms of the entire NU student body. Or, for that matter, myself and many of the hundreds of others on CC.</p>
<p>Have a great day.</p>
<p>How are Northwestern students subpar? They have greater combined mean scores than either Chicago or Georgetown:</p>
<p>Northwestern: CR:670-750, Math:680-770, ACT:30-34
Chicago: CR:670-770, Math:660-760, ACT:28-33
Georgetown: CR:650-750, Math:650-740, ACT:29-33</p>
<p>goankit, which Ivies were you accepted to? I'm extremely skeptical of your claims given your post history. I have a feeling you were denied by the Ivies and Northwestern, hence your attempt to put up a seemingly "innocent" post rife with assumptions to offend NU, in particular.</p>
<p>if you read my post, you would see that i personally dont feel the ivies are better, but the other kids from my school do and are going to nu bc they got rejected by them. i was just wondering if this attitude was common, i want to go to a school where people generally want to be at, not bc they got rejected everywhere else.</p>
<p>so many people seem to be jealous of NU these days. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>goankit isn't making accusations; he's just asking questions. take it easy on him...he's not trying to offend anyone.</p>
<p>i'm also deciding between georgetown and northwestern and can't wait to visit each in a couple weeks. i hope i don't like notre dame or berkeley too much when i visit, either, because that would make the decision twice as hard.</p>
<p>About (a little over?) 1/4 of the freshman class will be early decision acceptees. </p>
<p>More and more I am guessing that just about everybody with high stats applies to the Ivies "just in case" so of course there will be almost hundred thousand (assuming roughly 20K per ivy, with lots of overlaps) Ivy rejects, if you want to use that term. I have this feeling that most people (my son included) don't dwell on that much.</p>
<p>No, you're thinking of Cornell.</p>
<p>yeah i dont think we need to attack goankit so much! jeez. well i don't know, but i've seen a TON of people deliberating whether to go to cornell or northwestern. some of the guidebooks said something to the effect of 'northwestern's student body consists of coasters who got rejected from ivy leagues, and fly-over-staters who feel lucky to be there'</p>
<p>first off, don't jump on goankit, he doesn't say anything wrong, he just asks if a popular opinion of nu from non-nu students transcends campus.</p>
<p>as a northwestern freshman from nyc, i'd say that there is definately a "fly-over-staters who feel lucky to be there" population as the guide book says. some of the east-coasters (and others) were definitely ivy-rejects who found themselves here, but all seem to really adopt a sense of pride about nu (possibly to a fault, i personally find it a little over the top). i'd say that the vast majority of students, east coast or otherwise, even if in april of their senior year weren't happy to be coming to nu, are happy with it once they get here, and don't go around complaining about it.</p>
<p>that being said, i think i have a responsibility to say that although i was an early decision applicant myself, and was thrilled to get in, i now find it not to be a great fit and am reevaluating my decision</p>
<p>BK228899 - Why do you find it not to be a great fit?</p>
<p>^^^ second that.</p>
<p>to be totally honest, i don't really know. i'm from nyc, where i went to one of the top private schools, and northwestern is just so different in so many ways. that being said, everybody else just seems to love it, including kids from the same/similar backgrounds. don't let my experience dissuade you, its even growing on me, i can't really answer your question, especially without giving you probably very unfair biases</p>
<p>'nough said.</p>
<p>thats hilarious arbiter</p>
<p>Hey BK, I think you should elaborate on why you don't feel NU to be a good fit, even if your biases come through. I'm particularly interested in how the NU culture is different (as you say) from the East Coast culture you're used to.</p>
<p>I am interested as well BK. (From east coast, will be a freshman next fall)</p>
<p>Without going into a lot of detail, coming from Manhattan, NU and the surrounding suburbs are very laid back. I have friends who are also from Manhattan that love NU because of that, it just isn't for me. While this is not the case for everyone, and it might be similar at other schools, I just don't know, there is also a slight sense of complacency here, both socially and academically. I know other people will disagree with me, its just my two cents from a different perspective.</p>
<p>I don't want to discourage anyone from coming here. Everyone I know ranges from being happy here to ecstatic about it, for some reason it just isn't working FOR ME, which is why I was so hesitant to write this in the first place.</p>
<p>I'm not really sure what social complacency is, but I think I understand what you are trying to say. A laid back campus sounds alright though.</p>
<p>On the other hand, academic complacency certainly doesn't sound good...
What do you study?</p>