<p>I agree completely, NUGraduate. It’s sad, really, to see all these i-banking drones. The econ majors of our day wanted good jobs, of course, but didn’t worry about it til senior year, and certainly weren’t all starry-eyed over Wall Street. As someone who did choose NU over an Ivy, I was simply choosing NU over Penn for some personal fit reasons … not because there was some larger “Ivy vs non-Ivy” calculation that needed to be made.</p>
<p>And I’d also say the MMSS-ers of our day were <em>far</em> more interested in public policy, econometric research, psych research, academia, etc. than Wall Street / the business world. I would hate to think that MMSS resembles Wharton. Nothing against Wharton, but it’s just not … Northwestern any more. Part of the specialness of NU was that it <em>didn’t</em> have undergrad b-school, that your econ major was more liberal arts-y, that there was a total of one accounting class and that you *weren’t encouraged to take classes in Kellogg because that was too pre-professional.</p>