<p>Now that the Ivies and nearly all other top schools have sent out their decisions, I'm curious as to how many people who were admitted to NU have decided to go elsewhere and why. For more "prestige"? For financial reasons? To be closer to home? ???</p>
<p>So if you are turning down NU, where will you be matriculating? And why did you choose it over NU?</p>
<p>I will most likely turn down NU in favor of UCSD. It will cost me 29,000 less per year!</p>
<p>I'm leaning more toward Dartmouth. I got into both Brown and Dartmouth, both of which I doubt I could turn down for NU (although I have yet to visit!). I'm just pretty attached to Dartmouth and Brown.</p>
<p>On top of that, Dartmouth's financial aid is more favorable than Northwestern's (which is in turn more favorable than Brown's...)</p>
<p>Just don't decide till you visit!</p>
<p>OK, I'm working on getting my mom to let me visit :)</p>
<p>There is no way we can justify NU's cost when my D has full and part scholarships to other schools (not NU caliber but very respectable). We are sad to let it go, but parents need to retire too.</p>
<p>do an overnight visit if you come to northwestern. unless you are extremely liberal and activist i can't imagine picking brown if you overnight. over dartmouth, maybe, if you can get over the "being in the middle of nowhere" thing.</p>
<p>I'm definitely doing an overnight at NU and seriously considering it in light of acceptances to Cornell, Notre Dame, and Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>i think im taking UCLA over northwestern.</p>
<p>I'll most likely be matriculating at NU, but I'm not 100% sure yet--and the huge reason is because of cost. Still annoyed at not getting any aid, lol.</p>
<p>elsijfdl: Brown isn't "extremely liberal and activist," is it? I mean I thought people there were definitely not liberal, but not so radical.</p>
<p>I'm turning down NU to go to UW. UW seems like more fun, its 20k less per year, and I dont feel like my career prospects will be seriously hurt by attending UW over NU if I do well.</p>
<p>I'm turning down NU for Duke.</p>
<p>$23,000 scholarship to ASU, $20,000 scholarship to Rice, need to pay full fare to NU.</p>
<p>If you take matters of tuition and financial aid out of the equation, I would recommend NU over many of these schools. Of course, it's a matter of personal taste; you should go where your visceral instincts tell you you belong.
But personally, I would want my kids to take NU over Vandy, Cornell, Notre Dame, UCLA and probably Duke. It is the academic equivalent of Brown and Dartmouth, and these others (and better than a couple). I just think it is a fabulous place to go to college, and find it hard to imagine that anyone wouldn't have the time of their life there - academically, socially and culturally - as long as you can handle the winters!
Good luck to all of you.</p>
<p>NU > Duke??? No way... Well my personal opinion is this: Duke is basically the same school as NU in terms of social atmosphere, except Duke has more prestige and better financial aid, not to mention a significantly more ballin basketball team. In pretty much every academic area (except business schools- kellogg clearly has the advantage there and the arts) Duke is better. There's no comparison. However, I will agree with the rest of your choices, bc. NU is certainly a solid school.</p>
<p>Why would you choose NU over Cornell? How about Vandy or Notre Dame?</p>
<p>CNI:</p>
<p>NU has many programs ranked above Duke. In engineering, NU>Duke in all engineering fields except BME. In sciences, NU is ranked higher than Duke in math, physics, and chemistry while Duke is ranked higher in bio. In the 6 social sciences/humanities disciplines ranked by USN, they are even (with each winning in 3 areas). So I don't see how "there's no comparison". They are in the same league. NU shines also in areas like the arts, journalism, and communications. If you are talking about the latest profesional school ranking, NU takes law and business while Duke takes medicine.</p>
<p>I don't know, I'd have to pick notre dame over by bc of it's amazon g atmosphere, fanatic alumni system, and not to mention way better sports.</p>
<p>Sam Lee:</p>
<p>My earlier statement was an exaggeration, and you do bring up many good points. However, I stand by my point that the schools are really really similar. Both are great schools, and both have great social scenes (with huge Greek involvement on both campuses) The kicker, in my opinion, is just overall prestige of the school, and I view Duke as the school that is more prestigious.</p>