<p>Please help me. I am an uninformed acceptee to each and am sad because I am uninformed and need to be informed so that I can make what my mom calls an "informed decision" regarding the next four years of my life.</p>
<p>I haven't slept in over a week because I've been agonizing so much over this, so any help would be appreciated.</p>
<p>jk about being a loser noob, but seriously guys I need yo opinionz on dis shiznit</p>
<p>Well you need to outline some preferences. City/Rural/suburb? Big/small/medium?Athletic/Academic?</p>
<p>city/rural/suburb -- anything would be okay as long as it feels right.</p>
<p>big/small/medium -- definitely medium.</p>
<p>athletic/academic -- academic for sure...I feel like exceptionally great athletic teams sort of dilute the intellectual atmosphere of the school</p>
<p>which would YOU choose and WHY?</p>
<p>if i were you, i'd go to northwestern. not only do their academics surpass the others', but their culture is a lot more dynamic too. they've got their engineers, film students, aspiring journalists and so on- it's a very well rounded school. plus, it's near chicago which isn't so bad! </p>
<p>anyway, best of luck.</p>
<p>Hmm. I'd say Northwestern or Georgetown. Depending on what it is you want to d.</p>
<p>I agree its between Northwestern and Georgetown, Notre Dame is in the middle of nowhere are not very diverse. Can you visit both? I think Wildcat days is coming up. Personally, I would prefer Chicago area vs. DC, but I would pick between the best financial packages between the two. If they are equal or money is not an issue then Northwestern.</p>
<p>three of my good friends just enrolled at those schools. Heres there reasoning...</p>
<p>i live fairly close to northwestern (10 minutes) and Evanston is pretty nice college town, sometimes can get boring, but there are cute resturants and shops around, not a huge "nightlife" around campus(clubs and bars) but about15 min by car from downtown chicago and obviously an excellent school. </p>
<p>on the other hand, Georgetown and D.C. will give you amazing opportunities depending on what your intended major will be. also, my friend just chose gtown over northwestern and her reason was because there will always be something to do d.c, museums, politics, not to mention you will be there during an election process...</p>
<p>my other good friend is going to notre dame. she was pretty conservative and shy during high school. she choose nd over duke, vandy, and nwestern because of the social life mixed with a catholic education. </p>
<p>hope this helps!</p>
<p>i met a doctor in chicago in feb and he moved from dc to chicago few years ago. naturally, i asked him if he liked chicago better and the answer was a definite yes. to him, chicago has a lot more to do than dc. i am not surprised by what he said since i went there before but i was there for few days. dc is fairly small and you'd know if you've been there.</p>
<p>I think ND has a beautiful campus and way more spirit than Georgetown.......so ND over Gtown, but Northwestern would be nice near a city, but I've heard it's better to go to as a grad student </p>
<p>But PLEASE, choose any other way than rankings...</p>
<p>indiejimmy: It would help to know into which schools you were accepted at Georgetown & Northwestern.</p>
<p>Georgetown College and Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences (NU), and I'm planning on majoring in a science or philosophy and going pre-med (or possibly pre-business). I feel like Georgetown is academically overrated and Northwestern is academically underrated, partially because of the fact that people seem to know Georgetown better than NU, but NU is ranked higher in pretty much every single ranking list and has a $7 billion endowment, which is like 7 times the size of Georgetown's. Do you guys think endowment says much about the quality of undergrad life at a school or the school's overall commitment to its students?</p>
<p>No not at all. I know for a fact that the large majority of UChicago's 6 or so billion dollar endowment is earmarked for grad programs. UChicago is consistently ranked one of the top undergrad academic experiences(read: Princeton Review for one.)</p>
<p>So they are unrelated, ok.</p>
<p>You know, UChicago and Northwestern almost merged at one point...</p>
<p>Uhh, lol. K thanks?</p>
<p>You can take classes at U of Chicago if you go to Northwestern. Or any other "big ten" campus for that matter. CIC</a> - Committee on Institutional Cooperation</p>
<p>And YES endowment does matter. Northwestern is willing to spend theirs on student aid that speaks for itself</p>
<p>okay cool. i'm leaning towards northwestern now.</p>
<p>Yeah I think it would be a good choice. Evanston is a suburb of Chicago and it fits your medium criteria. South Bend is small and G'town would be big. Plus you if you are a philosophy major you would love a quarter at U of Chicago. Good Luck.</p>