<p>Washington University in St. Louis Versus Northwestern University
Name Recogtion NU>WashU
Academic wise NU more diverse but Washu Bio, BME, Pre-Med beats NU
Loacation NU>WashU
Financial Aid (for me) WashU (50K)>NU(40K)
I am a Pre-med student but it is always better to experience more diverse
Cost of living (including flight tickets) WashU slightly beats NU</p>
<p>I think NU seems more to offer but the financial aid is hard to turn down.</p>
<p>If you like Northwestern better then go there, the difference in financial aid isn’t that great, and you clearly have reservations about going to Washington University considering you have asked similar questions several times.
You obviously like name recognition, and while I wouldn’t say that NU has great recognition either (At least for me and the people I know, WashU has more recognition, but neither is very well known to most people I have talked to), you should go to a school that you feel is better in this category.
If Northwestern beats WashU in all categories except cost for you (and BME/pre-med), then I suggest that you choose wherever you feel you will be most comfortable, rather than the cheapest college (I think it is worth it to pay more for a school you will be happy at, but thats just my opinion).</p>
<p>You maybe right that I like the name recognition, but ,more importantly, I am looking beyond the superficial things. I want to go to the best school at which I can realistically expect myself to succeed.</p>
<p>LOL. Sorry I cannot help it.</p>
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<p>Yet he lists name recognition, a relatively small difference in excellent financial aid (at least in the modern world of private school costs), location (sure Chicago and St. Louis are different, but for the vast majority of college students not so much since 80+% of time spent on on near campus. Both midwest, not like we are talking about St. Louis versus NYC, LA, San Fran, New Orleans, Boston, etc.), and cost of living (which I would be curious how he knows since the COL for a college student is not particularly related to COL statistics gathered based on typical expenses like housing, taxes, groceries, gasoline, etc. which don’t apply here).</p>
<p>If you are real (and I am still not convinced) then just know these schools are more similar than different and this question has been addressed to you about 30 different ways already. Besides, isn’t it past the deadline?</p>
<p>Not you again - is there a point you give up and stop this foolishness. In answer to the original question - please just go to Northwestern.</p>
<p>Which one did you go to??? Its like May 14th now. Are you college class of 2013?</p>
<p>were you taken off the waitlist at both schools? I doubt it actually because you said WashU’s giving you almost 50K in financial aid, but they’re supposed to be need-aware for waitlists and I heard they were running out of money.</p>
<p>I have a daughter at WashU and a nephew of the same age at Northwestern. Both LOVE their schools I see the choice as a toss up. D wasn’t impressed with NW. Nephew chose NW. Both have had fabulous and awful professors. IMMEDIATE college town area is probably better at NW WashU has the loop and NW has the town of Evanston. I am not sure why everyone pits Chicago against St. Louis when comparing towns. NW is in EVANSTON, Illinois. Chicago is a little bit of a trip that you don’t make on a daily or even weekly basis. Even to get to parts of Evanston you need a car. Truth be told, most college kids at BOTH schools stay on campus or in the immediate area most of the time!! WashUs housing and food are MUCH better. Even WashUs immediate off campus housing is superior you should see what my nephew is renting for $800 a month (actually $3,200 a month shared by 4 students)!?!?!</p>
<p>Truth be told, among the general populations NO SCHOOL has great name recognition except HYPSM not one! The general population has no idea of the greatness of CalTech, the brainpower at University of Chicago, etc. In circles where people are informed on higher education, both NW and WashU are highly respected. My D and nephew never worried about name recognition they both knew they were picking the right school for them.</p>
<p>The guy is a fake, we should quit feeding him. I shouldn’t have either.</p>
<p>fallenchemist, calm down. You always think you are right, but sometimes you may be wrong. I am just asking I did not pay deposit to Northwestern. Albeit WashU is the “fit” school for me,it is very strange to meet a person like you online.</p>
<p>genius - There are “givers” and “takers” in this world.</p>
<p>Fallenchemist is a “giver”. He/She(?) is a knowledgeable and valued contributor to this forum. When someone asks a legitimate question, he will actually research to provide an answer.</p>
<p>You, however, are a “taker”. Rather than doing any reading or researching, you waste everyone’s time with embarrassing and asinine comparisons. You have been rude in your posts - especially to palmalk and fallenchemist. </p>
<p>It is not strange at all to have someone like fallenchemist on this forum. It is though a pain to have someone like you here. You are Humbolt. You are Gunn. If you are not a ■■■■■, then some would call you a tool.</p>
<p>If you are for real, then please grow up. Because - if you will indeed be attending WU, you will make a very poor representative of the student body.</p>
<p>PATHETIC
You don’t deserve to give a lesson to others. What an useless waste of time you are spending on keyword. Speak it in real life, not with keyboard. Otherwise, best luck in hanging out on CC 24/7 There is no reason an old man on CC 24/7, unless you are afraid of going out to real world.</p>
<p>I’m kinda surprised at the response to the OP…he didn’t say anything particularly inflammatory until his most recent post and yet you guys refused to offer him decent advice. We’re here to help, not harm.</p>
<p>@prospectiveMD - the response of people on the board isn’t because of what he’s specifically saying on this thread; posts made in other threads and under other usernames have been causing some serious frustration. </p>
<p>@ OP - to be honest, though, there’s nothing we can tell you about NW vs. WashU that isn’t exhaustively covered in these forums already. just do a search for threads mentioning “Northwestern” and “WashU” under the washu forum and you’ll find at least four specifically devoted to the subject, several of which were started by the OP, but in any case there are many and they’re quite detailed.</p>
<p>At this point (two weeks past the decision deadline, no?) the best advice I can give the OP is to step up and make a decision — none of us are likely to know exactly what you’re looking for in a school, and it’s you who are going to have to live with your decision. Also, school staff (especially FA people) tend to prefer prompt responses. Best of luck.</p>
<p>PropectiveMD - I can see why you would think that if you only knew about this post. But as Don Q says, there are numerous posts by this guy under various names on this and similar topics, and he is all over the map, yet strangely repetitive. He says he has been accepted to the finest schools in the country, yet his questions are childish and virtually ignorant. Now he is asking for information about a choice he wants to make, yet the decision can no longer be made, presumably. It is 2 weeks past the deadline. I don’t care if you are in line to win a Nobel prize, these schools don’t just say “Oh take your time, whenever you decide we will roll out the red carpet for you”.</p>
<p>So you have to know about the totality of this guy’s nonsense to understand the disgust, or at least annoyance, we have with this ■■■■■.</p>