NYTimes article on M and D visit to University of Chicago and Northwestern

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@CerebralAssassin

NY Times has a disproportionately east-coast readership, so I think it’s good to remind well-educated east coasters that NU absolutely exists and there is a world beyond the Ivies, sister-Ivies, MIT, Duke, G’Town, etc…</p>

<p>Long story short: NU is more diverse and less intellectual than UChicago while maintaining the highest of academic standards.

I agree. The academic standards are very comparable when you compare Northwestern to other schools and may in fact be surprising. The below stats were from another forum and compare Northwestern with Stanford, but they are pretty impressive:</p>

<p>“Academically in 2009, (Northwestern) had slightly higher SAT scores (NU: 1360-1530 combined, Stanford: 1340-1540 combined), more National Merit scholars (NU: 246 (#2 behind Harvard’s 266), Stanford: 110), more Fulbright scholars (NU: 32 (#1), Stanford: 28), more Gates Cambridge scholars (NU: 5 (#1) (4 through NU), Stanford (3), and more Rhodes scholars (NU: 2 (only Princeton had more with 3), Stanford:1 ).”</p>