<p>I have not yet decide to which major I am going to go,
I need to make a college decision between the both and Emory, please comment on this</p>
<p>Three excellent choices, although I personally would put Emory third, as your title suggests you might have already done.
WUSTL is a little smaller (maybe 6000 undergrads), and is outside of a less interesting city than NU (St Louis vs Chicago), but it is a wonderful school with a very happy and enthusiastic student body and first rate academics in most areas. Its dorms, as a general rule, happen to be nicer than most of NU’s, and its campus architecture is far more attractive.
NU is a bit larger (8000 undergrads). Evanston is a great college town and Chicago is, of course, an absolutely fabulous city. While NU’s architecture is less interesting than WUSTL’s, it is right on the Lake, which is gorgeous. It is also MUCH COLDER, if that matters to you (personally, I don’t think it should, because in winter you mostly go from building to building anyway). While both schools have a Greek life, it is more significant at NU (at WUSTL, the houses are more like clubs, not residences like NU). Sports at NU, which is part of the Big 10, are far more fun.
All that being said, this is a win-win choice. And, of course, it’s very subjective. I personally love both schools. I would probably give NU a very slight edge on academics overall, although some people would disagree with me. At the end of the day, it comes down to personality type and “fit”. The more socially outgoing kid would thrive at either school, but I would probably pick NU for that “type.” For the kid who is less outgoing, I think that WUSTL offers a more nurturing atmosphere (for freshman in particular), and I might recommend WUSTL.</p>