<p>Please compare the two schools</p>
<p>yale is more selective, has better grad placement, i mean, it’s yale</p>
<p>that being said, northwestern is more fun, is next to a major city, and is right on lake michigan, although yale’s campus is also beautiful.</p>
<p>at yale students live in colleges, and from what i understand the setup is similar to the houses in harry potter. northwestern has a large greek presence, and students socialize more in this way.</p>
<p>northwestern is very pre-professional. many students are looking to pursue a JD, MD, or MBA. while northwestern does still send a fair amount of students to PhD programs, I would surmise that yale sends more, and thus is more centered on academia.</p>
<p>okay northwestern is my second choice (i.e. i LOVE it), but even i would have to say yale. </p>
<p>i mean, its yale.</p>
<p>When my sister went to Northwestern she found that there were two types of students there: those that drink and party wildly and those that sit home. She was looking for more of an active campus that had more students that partied without a ton of alcohol. </p>
<p>Northwestern also has a very strong honor code and every paper that you submit gets referenced against every other paper that’s been written on that topic in a giant database.</p>
<p>They have pretty equivalent reputations (although Yale’s is more snooty) and it will really come down to the student body for you.</p>
<p>As a current Yale student, with friends at NW, I can add only that while they love NW, it’s a less personal and, simply put, mind-blowing school than Yale is.</p>
<p>Yale ftw…</p>
<p>I think Yale is more famous internationally…</p>
<p>I can’t imagine many people choosing northwestern over Yale…not that northwestern isnt an excellent school. It very much is. But it is no Yale</p>
<p>milk, the word you are looking for is “renowned”…schools are not “famous”.</p>
<p>anyway, go to the South.</p>
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<p>not often but it happens. i go to northwestern and i have classmates who were accepted to harvard, mit, when i ask them why northwestern their answers usually have to do with the reasons i listed above (more fun, less cutthroat, near a city, etc.)</p>
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<p>this is common practice in community colleges, well nearly all colleges, and even high schools</p>
<p>Northwestern and Yale (I’ve visited both) are very much different schools. They are academically comparable, but Northwestern seemed, at least, to me, a much happier, more well-rounded, less WASP-y and less snooty place.</p>
<p>Unless you’re shooting for journalism, ppl would most likely choose Yale over Northwester (at least, I would…)</p>
<p>Yes, an overwhelming majority would choose Yale simply because it’s Yale. Other than journalism, NU has special programs to lure people away from Yale, such as HPME, MMSS, and Engineering+Law (early admission to NU law school).</p>
<p>Forgive the tangent:</p>
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<p>Gotta love the Northeast bias here lol.</p>
<p>I understand Boston is a great town to live in as a college student. But lets call a spade a spade here: Chicago is the third largest city in the US (population ~2.8million). boston is the 23rd largest with a population of half a million. Chicago is comparable to NY or LA. </p>
<p>Boston, while a major northeastern city, is not in the same class as Chicago or NYC and making that comparison is silly.</p>
<p>Chicago is a totally sweet city but Northwestern is in Evanston. If you went to Northwestern you wouldn’t be spending a <em>lot</em> of time in Chicago. You’ll probably be too busy studying/going to parties on campus to spend a significant amount of time in the city. Just saying!</p>
<p>Do what you feel is right! I didn’t get a really good feel for the Northwestern campus so I’d probably go for Yale. And I kind of like the idea of living on the coast and in the New England area.</p>
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<p>because im a prestige whore =)</p>
<p>Do not underestimate the importance of the large city nearby.</p>
<p>Many students do not go directly to grad school. They either stay in the city where they went undergrad, or go home to get a job prior to grad school.</p>
<p>Would you rather stay in your college town to work – in New Haven, or in Chicago?</p>
<p>Assuming you do not plan to attend graduate school at all, where would you like to settle down, work, and raise your family – New Haven, or Chicago?</p>
<p>Years and years ago, I transferred from Stanford to UCLA to pursue an entrepreneurial venture unrelated to school (non-tech) that offered more opportunity in LA than Palo Alto. It didn’t hurt that at the time, Linguistics, my academic interest, was top 3 at UCLA (still is) and at Stanford not on the map (now top 3 also).</p>
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The career center at Duke did a study last year and found that roughly 33% of students went on to graduate/professional school, 25% went to NYC, 25% went to DC, and 15% did things like Teach for America or Peace Corps. If 50+% of Duke seniors can get a job in a major city, one would assume Yale seniors can too.</p>
<p>There are lots of things that set the two schools apart. Yale has residential colleges; Northwestern doesn’t. Yale runs on a semester system; Northwestern runs on a quarter system. I suggest drawing up a list of features for each school (housing, academics, location, athletics, etc.) to make it easier to compare.</p>
<p>^who would want to stay in durham? :p</p>
<p>one of the benefits of staying in the city where people went undergrad is that they could easily go to many social events with bunch of their former classmates/school friends. if i were in chicago, i’d be watching nu football with bunch of wildcats. but i’ve been watching football with a wolverine and we fought from time to time. :rolleyes:</p>