Loyola & Northwestern

corranged
Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:57:14 +0000

There is a bit of a rivalry between Northwestern and Chicago.

Both are at the same level academically, so that throws the students into the same ring. From there, the subtle differences come into play and are exaggerated by the other side: the South Side of Chicago versus Evanston; theoretical knowledge versus pre-professional focus; nerdy/intellectual versus cool/athletic/well-rounded.

In truth, the students aren’t all that different. I know a number of Chicago students who applied to Northwestern, and I imagine there are a number of Northwestern students who applied to Chicago. A rivalry is created from small differences when there are a lot of big similarities in place to begin with.

There isn’t a rivalry at all between Loyola and UChicago since, as Unalove mentioned, they are generally not thought of on the same academic level. The two schools don’t really have much in common that connects them besides both being in Chicago–and there are a lot of schools in Chicago.