<p>Yeah, when I told a guy at my school that Northwestern was in my top 3 he questioned my sanity as he, a less academically-inclined student, claimed to have been receiving mail from Northwestern since his sophomore year. Of course, he was referring to the substantially less-renowned Northwestern College in Iowa, not the pleasant place in Illinois…Northwestern University is very prestigious in the Midwestern US and in academic circles, but outside of that the name-recognition isn’t great.</p>