The faces of Northwestern

CerebralAssassin
Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:28:05 +0000

There have been more than enough threads on the Northwestern “type”.

Suffice it to say NU exists at the boundary between Ivy League academics and social/Greek/school-spirited/athletic-minded Big 10.

The school is super diverse in terms of the student body (journalists, engineers, theater, social sciences etc.), the institutions (Big 10 athletics, myriad research opportunities, theater shows), and the environment (campus, Evanston as a vibrant college town, Chicago as a world-class city).

The details have been belabored in previous threads. Other than that, I think pinning down a “typical NU student” is somewhere between obnoxiously arrogant and remarkably futile.