<p>BigFire, you have some axe to grind against NU, and it’s very weird. First, your perceptions of where NU students come from is odd. They come from all over the country, just like any elite school. Every elite school has a concentration of students in its relative backyard - Harvard to MA, Penn to PA/NJ, NU to Chicago, Stanford to SF. You also have a very weird hierarchy of “what smart students do.” BTW, what’s wrong with being a smart student from the midwest? Is that somehow worse than being a smart student from the east or south or west?</p>
<p>Second, NU’s main hospital system is still there. A secondary satellite set of hospitals covering the north shore disaffiiated and re-affiliated with Chicago. This is meaningless to a student in Feinberg.</p>
<p>Given that English isn’t even your primary language, why are we supposed to believe that you were paying attention to NU “20-30 years ago” in USNWR?</p>
<p>^^Pizzagirl, That’s my general impression on NU. And i am just providing some facts here, everybody has different angle looking at things.</p>
<p>BTW, are we here to compare NU HPME and Brown PLME? Did i mention NU or NU HPME is no good? None, Did i also include Baylor and UTSW for comparison? “Given that English isn’t even your primary language” do not put your superiority on me. Please!!!</p>
<p>But you made up a bunch of stuff that isn’t based in reality. You seem to think that NU is more regional than other schools. You seem to think that the only people interested in NU are “rich midwesterners” and that it could only be the 3rd choice for people from the East. Those are demonstrably incorrect things. NU does not have a “demonstrably different” student body from the Ivies, or from U of Chicago for that matter (though the campus feels are different).</p>
<p>Be honest. You don’t know – you just have vague impressions that are built on nothing. NU is less familiar to you, so you mistake “I’ve not heard of it” for “it must not be as good.” There are lots of things in this world you likely haven’t heard of.</p>
<p>BigFire - do you not understand that NU terminating affiliation with Evanston Hospital has very little to do with the school of medicine? Evanston is a satellite community hospital. NU still has all of its main hospitals downtown. Please stop talking about something you don’t know anything about. It’s misleading.</p>
<p>“weird hierarchy of “what smart students do.””, You say so, i didn’t. For the percentage of the students coming from, i do like to apologize for not doing much deeper research. From the following comparison, knowing that NU’s students 75% comes from OOS. To compare more deeply on every aspects is meaningless. </p>
<p>“A secondary satellite set of hospitals covering the north shore disaffiiated and re-affiliated with Chicago. This is meaningless to a student in Feinberg”, Why are you so sure? Again, i would say it must have some impact, maybe not much. In the long run, it might just disappear!!! i hope this is a fair statement.</p>