For you Prospies: where does NU stand?

Handyandy58
Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:15:54 +0000

2nd on my list. It’s more selective than my top choice school, but if by some strange twist I get in to NU and not my first choice, I think I could still live.

I don’t know when I originally heard about it. I think a family member from Chicago was the first to inform me that NU was actually a top-tier school. That kind of piqued my interest, and I knew a lot of friends of mine had interest in it as well. I checked it out, was impressed by what research I did online, and decided it was definitely worth a visit. After the visit, I was pretty much sold.

Around here in Ohio, NU is pretty much top of the top. People here hold it in high regard with Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Notre Dame. It’s a midwest thing, I guess (same with ND). People who aren’t in academia are more impressed with NU grads than Stanford grads. However, that’s likely based on a midwest familiarity.