<p>with all due respect brand_182, you are coming form a JC perspective, and you are saying that Northwestern is not intellectual. Did you go to like Harvard pre-JC school or something. Where do you have the background to say Northwestern is not intellectual. My brother had the same choice 3 years ago, and chose Northwestern. This was his reason: Wash U, not well known in the country, not good recruitment, and Chicago blows St. Louis out of water.</p>