<p>Yellowavcable - </p>
<p>My son (Class of 2012) looked at Northwestern and Middlebury last year. He did not care for Northwestern and was surprised given its academic reputation. The undergraduate “feel” was not impressivie - it seems that Northwestern puts a lot more of its resources into its graduate schools which are highly regarded. Of course, WUSTL isn’t Northwestern, but you should try to get a sense for the balance of emphasis on the graduate schools versus the undergraduate schools. I don’t know how large undergraduate WUSTL is, but ~5,000 or so students can seem like a large student body depending upon how large a high school you’re coming from and what you’re used to.</p>