Sounds like the right choice for you! Best of luck!
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Welcome to the Wildcat family. I have a niece attending this fall as well - very excited for you both!
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Thank you so much!!
Thank you!!
Congratulations!
Northwestern, I think, is in a peer group with Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, and JHU. Itās a great school. Kill it there, and the world will be open to you. But itās on you now ā you have to learn and produce.
These will be the best four years of your life. You will have so much fun. Work hard, play hard!
Go to the football games! Just donāt be too upset when my Badgers beat your Wildcats. hehe
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Thank you so much!! I will definitely make the most out of it and go to all of the football games!!
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Congratulations! Go Cats!
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Congrats for selecting Northwestern! Itās an amazing school. @prezbucky - I donāt think Cornell belongs in that peer group - just my opinion. I think the tiers are the following, which are consistent with US News. Northwestern and JHU are both in the top 10. Cornell is in the top 20. And although Duke isnāt in the top 10 this past year, it normally is.
HYPSM
UPenn / Columbia / UChicago / Cal Tech
Northwestern / Duke / JHU
Dartmouth / Brown
Cornell / Wash U / Vanderbilt / Rice
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Cornell is Ivy. My rankings take many things into account: a combination of undergrad and grad school academic quality (this helps the state schools, though I am taking undergrad more into account than grad ā and I am taking breadth of quality programs into account), student happiness, outcomes (adjusted for regional differences in cost of living and majors sought), class sizes (this helps the LACs), US brand and career support (these help to get good jobs out the gateā¦ all else equalā¦), general happiness/harmony on campus, etc.
Cornell is a great ā great ā university. Its genesis began with the command to let its students learnā¦ everything: comprehensive breadth of education. While that isnāt possible, as all things are not, and never will be, knownā¦ itās a glorious goal.
Cornell is both an awesome college and research university. Its global brand is big.
So ugh here are my tiers. Please note that at present state, I will probably forget a few schools. I donāt really have confidence in combining the LACs with the universities: the universities offer more breadth of study and generally more name brand, while the LACs offer smaller classes and more direct student/prof interaction. So iāll keep them separate. Iād just say, I think the best undergrad education in terms of direct teaching is probably at Williams College. I donāt know of another college in the US that offers 2:1 S:F ratios in some courses. Anyway, let the idiotic paper-thin dichotomies ensue ā we have a great many mighty schools ā these are the tip of the iceberg.
Universities:
Tier 1: Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Yale
Tier 2: Caltech, UChicago, Columbia, Penn (here due to Wharton)
Tier 3: Brown, Cal-Berkeley, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern
Tier 4: Carnegie Mellon, Emory, Georgetown, Michigan, Notre Dame, Rice, Vanderbilt, UVA, WUSTL
Tier 5: UCLA, Georgia Tech, (boy this is getting hardā¦) Illinois, NYU, North Carolina, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin
Tier 6: Boston College, Boston U, Brandeis, UCSD, USC, Tufts, Wake Forest
I quit. Itās hard mixing the state flags with the privates.
LACs:
Tier 1: Amherst, Pomona, Swat, Williams
Tier 2: Bowdoin, Carleton, CMC, Davidson, Hamilton, Harvey Mudd, Haverford, Reed, Vassar, W&L, Wellesley, Wesleyanā¦
ok, this is dumb. cripes.
Look at all the great colleges we have ā it is an embarrassment of riches, and we are the envy of the world for higher ed. The Chinese had to create their own ranking just to get a few of their schools into the top 100. We dominate.
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