<p>What is the difference?</p>
<p>That's a REALLY broad question.</p>
<p>North vs. South where?</p>
<p>In what criteria?</p>
<p>Different in what sense?</p>
<p>How does this have ANYTHING to do with Northwestern?</p>
<p>troll.</p>
<p>I have heard that the campus and dorms are divided into 2 sections: N and S. Supposedly the kids on both sides are extremely different. Students have the choice to choose wether they want to live on the N or S side. I am only asking about what I have heard..I am not too sure.</p>
<p>Rofl.</p>
<p>Okay.</p>
<p>But be more specific next time :P</p>
<p>I thought it was pretty clear about what asked...I've heard similar things. My friend told me to live on North if I get into Northwestern. <em>knock on wood</em></p>
<p>The differences are pretty overblown, but simultaneously not.</p>
<p>In short: North is closer to the athletics facilities and science classes and fraternities. South is closer to downtown Evanston, Theater Facilities, and Humanities classes. South has more of a Liberal Arts College feel and North wishes it was a state school. They both have their perks. Personally, other than living in my fraternity house, I would have no interest in living on North (though the Freshman dorm, Elder, is pretty fun). My advice to any non science major is live south, party North). But hey, part of what makes NU great is that we have so much diversity in our student population, so there are definitely people out there for whom North Campus is better.</p>
<p>And to clarify, you don't get to pick where you live. You get to list 5 preferences (not technically ranked in order of preference, though it is). There are no guarantees on where you'll be placed (unless you put certain dorms as choice one or two).</p>
<p>I think the primary reason my friend told me to live on North is to be near his frat house, so that we could hang out more easily.</p>
<p>more people associated with the greek scene in general live on north campus, so it's easier to socialize in the greek scene if you are north. if you live south you might have to get lucky with your floormates or be proactive about going out on your own if you want to rush some of the fraternities. You occasionally hear stuff like "you lived in willard? how did you get rushed?" but still plenty of kids from south campus end up greek.</p>
<p>Seriously, I think half of our pledge class of 30 is from Willard. It's really what you make of it, the divide is greatly exaggerated.</p>
<p>Ah I see now.
I'm going for science and I want to join a sorority so North sounds suitable.</p>
<p>What is Elder like? Ha, it fits me because that's my last name :)</p>
<p>See, I'm a member of a frat that is at NW, but I wouldn't be active if I transferred to NW (I'm not that active at my social frat anyways). I'd probably chill with my friend who is in a different frat. Is there an AKPsi (professional business fraternity) at NW?</p>
<p>Yeah, there is AKPsi here I believe. Don't know too much about it though.</p>
<p>"more people associated with the greek scene in general live on north campus, so it's easier to socialize in the greek scene if you are north."</p>
<p>Well, I think you mean more guys associated with the Greek scene live on north campus. For those not yet familiar with campus, the fraternities are all north and the sororities are all south. </p>
<p>I never found the great divide that's alluded to. Honestly, north and south are only a 10 minute walk apart. Live up north if you value being close to fraternities, the fitness center, or you're in Tech; live down south if you want a prettier campus feel, value being close to sororities, or are in WCAS/Medill/Speech/Music. But either way, it's not that big of a deal. I really wish people wouldn't put it into prospies' or newbies' heads that it's a huge cultural difference.</p>
<p>"Ah I see now.
I'm going for science and I want to join a sorority so North sounds suitable."</p>
<p>It depends on whether you value being close to your sorority for your weekly meetings (Elder is a 10-15 minute walk from the sororities, which are all down south) or whether you value being close to the fraternities for Fri / Sat night, in which case Elder is right up your alley!</p>
<p>I would like to be close to the athletic facilities. I don't want to have to trudge through the snow to get there. I've endured harsh winters going to class, I have a tougher time enduring winter to go to the fitness center.</p>
<p>anyone else know anything about AKPsi at Northwestern? Their website is terrible.</p>
<p>Sachmoney: You'll get kicked off campus if you refer to it as NW. It's always NU.</p>
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<p>there's a gym close to south campus but it's not as extensive as the ones up north and has little in the way of weight rooms.</p>
<p>EASD, elder is an all freshman dorm, the CAs there are generally pretty lax so it's a pretty social environment</p>
<p>Really Pizzagirl? Dare I ask why?</p>
<p>Because NW aren't our initials. The school's name is Northwestern (note it's one word) University, hence NU. You don't abbreviate Dartmouth College DM, do you?</p>