<p>In one of our Best Colleges Review books it says that applicants to Northwestern often prefer xxx colleges and rarely prefer Marquette University. Can someone compare why this would be? Why would a student most likely apply to and prefer Northwestern but not Marquette?</p>
<p>You don’t understand why someone would chose NU over Marquette?</p>
<p>Is it reputation? Are the professors significantly better? If a student would not be attracted to apply to both schools, I’m interested in what the factors are. I know that Marquette is not on the same level but what puts it there? Would Marquette not be academically satisfying enough to a student qualified to go to NU? Is it the social scene? Location? Size is about the same. I don’t know how the book comes up with the ‘rarely prefers X school’ but was just wondering. Without being a student on the campus and taking classes, it’s really hard to understand the differences in colleges besides how they are rated.</p>
<p>I imagine the way they just compile this is just to ask which students applied where and what their order of choices for school were. Since several applicants to northwestern are from the midwest, I imagine a good number of them also applied to marquette as a lower choice, since its a midwest school as well.</p>
<p>Are you kidding me? Actually, are you serious?</p>
<p>Oh I’d imagine you know why.</p>
<p>Prestige, location, students, and opportunities.</p>
<p>Northwestern provides a better education, a more vibrant campus life, a better football team, more research opportunities, better placement into grad school, and bequeaths larger prestige upon graduates. I cannot think of a reason why a student would prefer Marquette over Northwestern.</p>
<p>I almost find it hard to take that question at face value.
Why would a student prefer Harvard to UMass? Or Columbia to CUNY? or Georgetown to American University?
We are not talking the same league here.</p>
<p>Marquette is a ****ing dump, wordddd</p>
<p>I found this this that I had saved from somewhere. Would you say that NU has many of these qualities?</p>
<p>What makes more selective colleges better?</p>
<p>talent of fellow students
fellow students are academically motivated
talent of faculty
quality of instruction
level of instruction that challenges excellent students
faculty-student mutual respect and interest
professional maturity and accomplishments of faculty
personal maturity of faculty
resources and facilities
academic climate
mentoring/role models
maturity and dedication of fellow students
originality and sophistication of ideas that are presented/discussed
opportunities for research and academic/professional experience
advantages seekeng jobs and grad schools later
professional contacts of faculty
quality of academic advising
special culture, tradition, history
imparts a sense of pride and accomplishment
prestige factor
environment that imparts desire for excellence
social consciousness/moral awareness/cultural growth
fun and pleasures that are not malicious or self destructive</p>
<p>all of the above.</p>
<p>Well - here’s at least a few reasons why someone might prefer Marquette in rare cases: 1) If they want the Catholic affiliation/influence as part of their education; 2) if they prefer downtown Milwaukee to suburban Evanston; 3) if they come from a family with an income that is too high to get much need-based aid at NU but they receive significant merit aid from MU (which is likely for anyone who could get admitted to NU); 4) they want to get a business degree as an undergraduate 5) if they prefer Big East basketball to Big Ten football. ;-)</p>
<p>To be honest, I was surprised by the harshness of the responses. The initial post asked why anyone would prefer Marquette, not why Marquette was better. Northwestern would clearly be the preference of most students who could choose between the two, but in “rare” cases, there are reasons why some would choose Marquette.</p>