<p>See my points here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/northwestern-university/1315156-northwestern-wustl.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/northwestern-university/1315156-northwestern-wustl.html</a></p>
<p>To add to that, I’m very impressed with Northwestern’s leadership and like the direction they’re taking the university. Morton Schapiro is a great leader, and I have no doubt Northwestern will rise to the top faster and in greater leaps and bounds than its peer schools. </p>
<p>Northwestern right now has a global reputation that WashU does not have (at least not to the same degree) and I don’t see WashU ever catching up. See this: [Education</a> - Image - NYTimes.com](<a href=“Education - Image - NYTimes.com”>Education - Image - NYTimes.com) . Maybe this reputation is due to Kellogg, but regardless, the positive effect definitely does spill over to the undergraduate schools. </p>
<p>Northwestern has a leadership brand, and it definitely delivers. Employers are consistently impressed with Northwestern students who are not only intelligent but also creative, innovative, bold, and have strong leadership traits (no matter how that manifests itself–leadership styles vary). Furthermore, the employers graduates today will encounter have always held Northwestern in high esteem growing up but not WashU. Whether they like it or not, they are biased in favor of Northwestern.</p>
<p>Northwestern’s professional schools (not only business but also law, medicine, education, speech, music, engineering, journalism, entertainment/theater) and graduate schools (arts & sciences) are ALL very strong. Its incredible strengths in so many areas contribute to its prestige in a wide variety of fields. Northwestern attracts talent from these diverse realms in a way no other university (besides Harvard because of its name) truly can.</p>
<p>Northwestern’s campus is poised to be among the top 10 most beautiful campuses in the US in a few years. Its layout, exterior and interior aesthetics, and lakefront location will make Northwestern even more beautiful than it already is.</p>