| My two cents, as someone who has worked at NU during summers since I was twelve, knows plenty of students and has friends who're the kids of professors, NU is a school that is better than its students. For the most part, and I've had professors actually agree with my analysis, many of the students who are at Northwestern got there because they are grinders. This is not a school of intellectual people, it's a school of hard workers that are only of slightly above average intelligence. As for the social scene, NU has one redeeming feature and that's Dillo day. Apart from that, I had a student admit that she'd rather be at one of ETHS's (Evanston's high school) parties than go to an NU party. Of course, I've also met some very intelligent people, but, I've also met a lot of people who I've been shocked by how unintelligent they were. |