The Prestige Gap: Ivy Reject School?

Sam_Lee
Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:24:44 +0000

arbiter213,

As far as faculty goes, it depends on whom the person you talk to. I don’t know which field that faculty is in, but NU has been doing well in luring top faculty lately, especially in fields like engineering and chemistry. In 2004, NU had 10 faculty elected to AAAS!! It’s no HYPS but from what I’ve been reading, NU has shown upward trend. Not long ago, NU’s chemistry was always ranked between #10 through #15 but few years ago, it started moving upward and now it’s ranked like #8 or something like that, with 3 specialities ranked in the top-5 (they used have only one ranked in the top-5).

Also, if you look at that list again, NU’s yield is not that bad. NU is comparable to Duke but better than UChicago, Hopkins, and CalTech (WashU’s number is NA but last year, the % was in the low-30s and I expect it to be about the same this year). I am sure NU would look much better if the list has top-25, instead of just top-15 schools as I believe all the schools ranked after JHU have lower yields.