Northwestern or Yale?

arbiter213
Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:22:42 +0000

Couple things:

Thanks to the Yale posters for making this a more well balanced thread (i.e. actually useful) :)

Re: NU’s admissions being insecure: they are. A professors once said to me over lunch: “Northwestern’s problem is that we hover near the top, but when Harvard offers one of our faculty a job, they will always leave.” (roughly). NU suffers from a perceived inferiority/ slight lack of cache compared to its peers, so it can’t quite compete at the same level because of that. Its an unfortunate cycle they’re trying to break, and so when top students turn them down, they want to know why.