<p>I know some threads similar to this exist, but they are quite old. I'll start this off. I'm pretty much certain I will attend Northwestern with the MMSS program, but will wait for my visit to confirm. Here are the other schools I considered.</p>
<p>Cornell
NYU Stern
UChicago
Duke</p>
<p>Have you checked out the new Financial Concentration that Duke offers as part of its Economics major?</p>
<p><a href=“http://econ.duke.edu/uploads/assets/News/finance_concentration.pdf[/url]”>http://econ.duke.edu/uploads/assets/News/finance_concentration.pdf</a></p>
<p>Make sure to visit all of the Admitted Student Days weekends.</p>
<p>Cornell, Tufts, and Boston College. Ending up at Northwestern for academics and atmosphere.</p>
<p>S is choosing between Northwestern and Washington University in St. Louis…we just got back from Monday’s Wildcat Day and S is leaning towards Northwestern. Older son had the same exact decision and chose WashU by a “nose”…</p>
<p>@goldenboy Thanks for that. I have briefly heard of it but I will definitely look into it.</p>
<p>@mtldad I was also considering WashU earlier, but decided that it was not right for me. However, it is a great school.</p>
<p>@PieceofToast Is there any particular reason you ruled out Cornell besides vaguely the academics/atmosphere?</p>
<p>Any other prospies/students/alums willing to answer?</p>
<p>I would pick MMSS + Econ at NU, but I am biased</p>
<p>tennis, I chose Northwestern because (in no particular order):
It’s easier to get back home–direct flights are a Godsend.
I’ve lived in the country for my entire life, and I want to have access to a big city.
I’m interested in Economics, and Northwestern’s Econ department seems to be more highly regarded than Cornell’s. I’m also interested in the Kellogg cert programs.
Northwestern just seems fun. Good atmosphere, awesome location, when the coursework doesn’t bury me in the library or something, and so on.
They have an equestrian team, and I want to keep riding through college (all of the colleges do, but still).</p>
<p>I didn’t choose Cornell because:
It’s out in upstate New York; bit too far out in the country for my tastes.
It would be more difficult to get internships, since I’d be limited to summer internships only.
(I wanted to join the Polo team, and I thought it would be cool to go to the same college my parents went to, but in the end, it didn’t outweigh its own negatives/the draw of NU. Don’t judge <_< )</p>
<p>Tufts:
It’s a bit quirkier than I’m hoping for in a college–my high school’s pretty similar, so I wanted a different social atmosphere.</p>
<p>Boston College isn’t -quite- on the same level as the others, and there wasn’t any other particular draw for me to attend.</p>
<p>My son chose NU last year, over:
UC Berkeley
Johns Hopkins
Cornell
Carnegie Mellon
Dartmouth (waitlisted - later offed).</p>
<p>He, as an ORM, was angry at first that he did not make high IVY’s. Yet, he just lo–ves NU, now: a relatively big private school which offers “wholesome” college experiences, located in a big handsome city.</p>
<p>He used to be a somewhat quiet sci person, now he has close friends who study media, theater, music, and history, and he gets invited to plays, concerts, sports, and various events. He says that NU helps broaden his views about the world, and he is more than ecstatic about NU.</p>
<p>FYI…older son chose WashU by a nose over Northwestern in 2007 (he was class of '11) and he loved it…looks like younger son is leaning heavily to Northwestern over WashU (class of '16) and we are totally “pumped” about it…We really like the Northwestern of 2012 much better than when our older son was choosing in 2007…and, then, he only barely chose WashU.</p>
<p>S is decided between:
<p>S (a freshman) is in Engg + ISP. ISP is very intense but there is overlap between Engg and ISP classes, so some of the ISP classes will substitute for basic Engg courses. So far, he is able to balance the work load and is more than happy with the Profs, the depth of the materials covered, and the knowledge gained, to say the least. ISP offers plenty of research opportunities. He is still able to find enough time to do other activities: Intramural sports, volunteering, socializing etc</p>
<p>ISP is like Harvey Mudd but with the research opportunities of a major research university. Or you can think of it as mini-CalTech. If you look at the program in isolation, it’s probably more successful than any other major/program in any university in terms of number of external fellowships like Goldwater/NSF…etc won by its students. I think few years ago, 3 of them won Goldwater in the same year while many schools, including the top ones, may have only two or less winners in any given year.</p>
<p>I am absolutely torn between Northwestern and Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>Thank you Sam and Northwesterndad. He will visit NU again Monday. ISP seems very small: 35 students. And it seems you take all (?) your classes with the same kids in a special building. Do you still have time and opportunities to interact with other kids?</p>
<p>cyclist64: absolutely; my S’s close friends are from his Res College (only one of them is in ISP)…and he is now branching out and meeting some new folks from other colleges (not Engg/ISP)…there is time and plenty of opportunties; and it is not neccessay to take all the classes (ISP) with the same group…S did Org Chem in his 1st qtr which his fellow students from ISP did not do…and now S is doing Econ (current qtr) which others have not taken.</p>
<p>cyclist,</p>
<p>Keep in mind ISP is a 3-yr program; most spread it out over four years and double-major. In that case, half of your classes (22 out of 45) would be non-ISP classes. But if you choose to do ISP only in 3 years, the non-ISP portion will become 1/3.</p>
<p>@tennis21: have you already been accepted into the MMSS program or are you planning to apply during freshman year? and if you have decided on a school which one? because I’m facing a similar problem between NU and NYU Stern.</p>
<p>I have already been accepted into the MMSS program. I would suggest you apply even know for freshman admissions since it is less competitive and will help fulfill most prereqs for both Kellog undergrad certificates. In my opinion, NU+MMSS+Certificate blows NYU Stern out of the water and there is a much better campus life.</p>
<p>Arguably the 40% who were admitted ED chose NU over every other school they would have applied to. In D’s case that was another 12 schools including Yale and Brown (since NU has a much stronger Theatre department). ;-D</p>
<p>Chose Tufts over NU and Michigan. Everyone in my high school seemed to get into Michigan this year. They must need the out of state money. Wisconsin was harder to get into than Michigan this year. NU was my second choice…</p>