<p>I'm sorry to be bringing this thread up again after so long (I am the OP). But i just thought people might be interested to know that i applied to Chicago and not Northwestern.</p>
<p>Nothing against NW, but on personal research i found that Chicago would be much more to my liking than NW.</p>
<p>I better not say anything much, or I'll be slammed, but good luck and let us know how it turns out.</p>
<p>MWC,</p>
<p>FYI:
<a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1126256708738%5B/url%5D">http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1126256708738</a>
WHERE THE TOP 50 FIRMS HIRED FROM
Law school Associates hired in 2005 2004 J.D.s Percentage hired at top 50 firm
Columbia Law School 151 397 38%
Northwestern University School of Law 82 224 37%
University of Pennsylvania Law School 91 249 37%
University of Chicago Law School 69 191 36%
Stanford Law School 57 177 32% </p>
<p>To me, they are in the same league. :)</p>
<p>My decision was not really influenced by factors such as job prospects or grad school admissions.
Chicago just seemed to create a very different kind of environment - in a good way (to me)</p>
<p>badman- You are using the right criteria. Fit is the most important thing. Both schools have a lot to offer and it all depends on what fits you best.</p>
<p>I'll preface this by saying that I'm going to start at UChicago in the fall, having chose it over Northwestern (I'm one of those gap year kids and applied last year).</p>
<p>In terms of prestige I don't think you can honestly say one is better than the other. The only things I can think of are Chemistry for Northwestern and Econ for Chicago. In terms of everything else - history, poli sci, lit - I have no clue. </p>
<p>I will say if you're a prestigemonger then you want to go to UChicago, but you have to do Econ. I've met many people from the World Bank and IMF, professors, etc, and the first thing they always blurt out when I say I'm going to Chicago is, "Oh I hope you're doing econ!" Apparently at the world Bank LSE and UChi grads are highly favored, even over Oxbridge and Yarvard candidates (I'm not sure if this is undergrad or grad, but usually a strong grad program helps the undergrad reputation)</p>
<p>Someone said: "Look at the SC judges, who went to Chicago? Nobody if I am not mistaken (1 went to Northwestern, lol!)"</p>
<p>Wiki: John Paul Stevens (A.B. 1941) - United States Supreme Court Justice (1975-present) </p>
<p>But none of that really matters to the original poster since he's doing philosophy, which I don't think either school is particularly famous for. I think if a program isn't really stellar between two very equal schools (Cornell has Engineering, Chicago Econ), then the other factors should decide for you. </p>
<p>Northwestern seems to me to be a much more "rounded" and "solid" school (give those words what definition you choose). It's in a good part of a good city, has good sports, has good academics, has good school spirit, etc etc. It's a very college experience I think. I didn't get to visit a class there, so I don't know if they have the set up like Chicago where a lot of the classes are nice and small and organized in a sort of round table fashion (granted, maybe this is just the image UChi wanted to present).</p>
<p>Chicago has a lot of geeks, yes (like any good school, including Northwestern), but it's not really full of them to the point where everyone you see is going to have acne. They're usually the vocal ones, because the chill, normal kids don't really bother posting on the internet and what not. When I visited last April, I was surprised at all the normal kids, which was a big plus for me (I visited some political economy class, and all the students in the class seemed to be straight forward with the 'oh man this class blows' mentality). I think the misconception is that "intellectual" equates with "socially and hygenically inept," which isn't true. </p>
<p>Basically, don't expect to walk into Hyde Park and see clones of Alfred from "White and Nerdy" everywhere. And remember that we're a go to school for Ivy Rejects (just like Gtown), so we're not all smart.</p>
<p>Northwestern is in a better neighborhood and has hotter girls though, ain't gonna lie. And that might not sound like a big deal, but it really can be. </p>
<p>Also NU isn't where fun comes to die. And I know it sounds lame, but it depends on your definition of "fun." I've always been a cosmopolitan kid, so I never cared about the college drinking scene (why go there when you can hit up a Chicago bar or club? Right, for making out randomly. Well, bad news for UChic kids is that the Chicago gene pool is ugly (this is a stereotype I can't deny)) and thus the idea of a more chill, sort of "night in" atmosphere attracted me to Chicago. Although maybe I'll change, I don't know.</p>
<p>Edit: Want to add that NU has more pre-professional people, and hence its image as more of a "normal" or straightforward school. Chicago doesn't have engineering or grade inflation to get you into med school, so that hurts us some (or helps, depending on your view)</p>
<p>Northwestern might have the more appealing girls, but Chicago has the more appealing guys. (Based on the ones I saw anyway).</p>
<p>For a philosophy major, I would look into which has the stronger department. I read a headline in "The Daily Northwestern" last week that the philosophy department has recently been reduced to have its size and is trying to revamp the department.</p>
<p>UCHICAGO - better school academically
Northwestern - more fun better campus life
most prestigious - for people who really really know about colleges - uchicago, but more have heard of northwestern being a good school</p>
<p>please for your sake - dont go to Uchicago</p>
<p>why? </p>
<p>10 character</p>
<p>So, I was just looking through some old threads that I started and I came across this one!
Back when I started this thread, I wasn't even considering Chicago seriously; a friend of mine told me that NW and UChicago were great schools so I thought I should apply to one of them (because I wanted a big city college). I picked Chicago over NW just to apply for the heck of it. My top choices then were Princeton and Brown.</p>
<p>Now.... fast forward 6 months. Being admitted to both Chicago and Brown, I've decided to pick Chicago and can't even imagine having applied to NW. </p>
<p>I'm sooo excited about going to Chicago now!!!!</p>
<p>If you wanted a big city college, why were your top choices Brown and Pton?</p>
<p>No, I just wanted a big city college in my list of colleges (don't even ask why :))</p>
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<p>MoWC,</p>
<p>you are divorced, aren't you
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<p>Momofwildchild, elsijfdl wasn't hitting on you. He was trying to make a statement about people's likelihood to get divorced given their attitude/temperament. </p>
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<p>Hypothetically, I will choose Northwestern. It's true that Chicago has more "intellectual types," but I know I will also find intellectual types at Northwestern. I will most likely hang out with people of this "type" (since I am one) but also benefit from the company of other "types." On this note, the major difference between the two schools is that the Chicago people like to capitalize on their intellectual-ness. This culture trains people to analyze everything academically (as in you go into the school not caring for the history of toothpaste, but since your peers would talk about interesting tidbits about everything including toothpaste in the bathroom as you brush your teeth, you adopt that mindset even in your social relations). Northwestern students are less obvious about their intellectual side (the students don't feel as pressured to say something academic about everything). However, this side shines in the classroom, the forum appropriate for analyzing things in nuanced detail. They are still intellectual outside the classroom, but this would be conveyed more through social wit (as in universals being applied to a practical situation) and less through conversations where people bring up the history of something or the social implications of a random object like toilet papers (knowledge mixed with insight).</p>
<p>I think its pretty obvious that Momofwildchild was sarcastic in that reply...</p>
<p>by the way, were some posts deleted? I can't find mine for some reason</p>
<p>Oh, and please let this thread die out. This is the second NU v. Chicago thread on the front board, and while its good to see the OP reply, we really don't need to restart this ugly debate</p>
<p>I considered that, but that's not how it was stated. If she were being sarcastic, she probably wouldn't go into that direction unless she had an unusual brain development. If a college student asked if an older adult is divorced, I would not immediately think that he or she is romantically interested in the adult. </p>
<p>People should not lie afterwards about using sarcasm to avoid embarrassment.</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>Its sarcasm. Its literally dripping with sarcasm. Exactly the type of sarcasm one would see in friends/seinfeld/desperate housewives/any other generic American sitcom. You're really over-analyzing this too much, 'tisthetruth.</p>
<p>I concede when I see that I'm wrong, but I don't think I am in this case.</p>
<p>It's OK, really. We all have our own fantasies, and for some people, college boys are irresistible.</p>