Is NU student life vibe competitive or collaborative?

roderick
Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:30:30 +0000

The more I bop around NU threads (such as the 2014 stats’ thread+, eg) or even try to go to the NU table at a college fair, I get a distinct sense of …*competitive tension and stress * from the students and even the parents. I even heard people on a thread or two on CC characterize the ethos at NU as ‘competitive’. A parent friend of mine last yr said that when she visited NU for a prospie day , there was this mad dash to get handouts, with elbows flyin’.

What say y’all - is student life, especially academics, at NU ‘take it easy’ (but work hard) and collaborative, or stress-y and uber competitive?

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