<p>woooooow!!
I just received a fedex mail saying that I got accepted to Northwestern's engineering school..
After getting accpeted from Johns Hopkins University and WASHU and also rejected from Duke and most ivy league school, I decided to go to WASHU, since they have one of the best medical school in the world.(I personally don't like Johns Hopkins)</p>
<p>but.. wow!!...
I never anticipated to get accepted from Northwestern's waiting list.. In fact, I was too lazy to send a letter(although my CC strongly recommended) and I sort of gave up on Northwestern.... wow.. </p>
<p>Anyway, Northwestern was one of my first choice schools and I would have clearly choose Northwestern over WASHU before May 1, but after visiting WASHU during its multicultural weekend(They paid my airplane tickets!!!), I kinda fell in love with them, too..(WASHU also had many hot girls.... hmmm)</p>
<p>SO... ye.. now I have to choose between Northwestern and WASHU, and I seriously have no idea which school I need to choose..</p>
<p>For God(or oversoul, Ala, Buddha, Jesus, or watever)'s Sake.. please help me..</p>
<p>p.s. I'm an international student who is waiting for green card...(hopely in a year or so?)</p>
<p>p.s.2 I'm planning to do pre-med or pre-dental and I've heard that majoring biomedical engineering and doing pre-med at WASHU is extremely hard... what about Northwestern?</p>
<p>From what pre-med students at Northwestern have told me its extremely difficult to do well in pre-med classes at Northwestern. That is not to say pre-med isnt difficult anywhere. Its just that I've heard that you have to compete with the 7-year med students, which are usually very intelligent and are usually the people that get the As. I was in the deciding phase between Northwestern and Pomona, but in the end I chose pomona because of the difficulty of the premed courses (and almost lack of grade inflation in the science courses) at Northwestern. </p>
<p>Now, that isn't to say that WASHU's premed is much easier. When I visited the school a premed student said it was very difficult do well in their premed courses, but that is to be expected at any prestigious school. </p>
<p>*note all my information is only from what people told me so I'm not exactly an authority on the subject.</p>
<p>I've heard Wash U. is significantly more difficult than NU from a transfer student. But opinions are relative and that isn't saying NU is easy... I'm sure both are very competitive.... but in the end an NU degree or Wash U degree with a 3.0 is a dinosaur compared to a 4.0 at any (academically) inferior school.</p>
<p>Go in with a positive mindset and enough hard work will always earn you good grades.</p>
<p>i had the same choice to make! but i chose NU b/c i live in stl, and am too familiar with washU anyway, but it's a great school nonetheless! Good luck!</p>
<p>Pre-med is going to be hard no matter where you go...and that's probably a good thing to prep you for medical school after you graduate.</p>
<p>I'm not sure what are the pros and cons of each school in regards to international students, but I would assume they would be about the same. Both established schools with good study-abroad programs and experience with international students.</p>
<p>Northwestern's overall setting and atmosphere (Chicago or St. Louis is very much a Cake or Death choice, at least for me :)) blows Wash U's away, IMO, and the academics are about equal in your intended concentration, so I'd say go NU. </p>
<p>I'm biased, though. (NU Class of 2010.)</p>
<p>what were your stats like hokoko?</p>