<p>Don’t throw away your life by going to Northwestern! LOL!</p>
<p>It’s nice of people on the UChicago Forum to be so evenhanded about the other schools, but let us not also forget UChicago’s distinctive culture. It is a notch above those other schools academically and climbing faster than any other school in the country.</p>
<p>Northwestern has more undergraduates than UChicago so to really know the job recruiting situation, you would have to know how many people applied to a particular company from each school, not just how many work there, etc., etc.</p>
<p>Actually UChicago does surprisingly well business wise for a place that often forgets that the ‘real’ world (anything outside Hyde Park) exists. More billionaires than Northwestern, for instance:</p>
<p>[In</a> Pictures: Billionaire Universities - 6. University of Chicago - Forbes.com](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/11/harvard-stanford-columbia-business-billionaires-universities_slide_7.html]In”>In Pictures: Billionaire Universities)</p>