Loyola & Northwestern

unalove
Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:46:54 +0000

The “rivalry” only exists in any real form on CC. The schools do not attract similar students, nor do they compete in sports, and the undergraduate size of NU is much bigger than Chicago’s.

Chicago’s more traditional rival is Wash U, but I wonder how many current students know that such a rivalry is supposed to exist or even care about it. We played them at our homecoming. Let’s not talk about what happened.

Loyola Chicago isn’t in Chicago’s range academically, so I don’t think there’s a rivalry. Loyola also has a religious affiliation and is much more geared towards pre-professional studies (communication, education, etc.). If Chicago’s going to call another school “stupid,” it’s not going to be LUC-- it will most likely be a school like Columbia or Brown.

Two more things about the Loyola/UChicago relationship-- a handful of students from Loyola transfer to UChicago every year, and there are quite a few administrators who did their undergrad at Loyola.