Let me add in a point:
Internationals: Come here only if your dad is a managing director of some large MNC or you have lots of stable, sustainable ‘connections’ (ugh, I wanna puke seeing this term again) in your family. Will all nighters for a high GPA be worth it? Can you get a job/internship on/off campus? Can you get into desirable student groups/fraternities that will aid your career development? The general answer is a big fat NO for all of them. When I went to seek advice in the careers office they basically asked me to help myself and accept the fact that it is impossible. EXTREMELY WEAK for that compared to schools that NU define as ‘peers’ but clearly are a step above (yes, I have friends attending those schools and their support/opportunities have been way more superior and available). So, if you are an international, unless you are from a family that has already paid four years of tuition at Choate/Exeter/some prestigious prep school, flies in business class exclusively, uses $1000+ bags and coats etc, and have job offers pre-arranged and waiting for you every summer…DO NOT COME HERE. You will feel scarily miserable and wonder why you paid so many times more tuition than going to school in your home country for nothing.