Vandy vs. Northwestern vs. USC

Faline2
Sun, 20 Apr 2014 01:57:40 +0000

gosh, your screen name is endearing! #! You don’t give us much to work with here Original Poster whose name I won’t speak! Assuming your financial situation is not a factor? Have no idea where you come from? I have seen Northwestern and Evanston is lovely if you can tolerate the long and bitter winters. Chicago has its own excitement (my son would be at the Symphony all the time but you can do anything there on weekends and NWern still has a nice compact campus.

Vanderbilt has four lovely seasons and a very strong traditional experience for students that will include both small classes and lecture halls. I think VU and NW are probably more similar cozier classrooms and big endowments to shower on students in all sorts of ways in each department.

I do think that HOD major vs Econ is quite a contrast in your academic life. My Duke son was an Econ major and it is very quantitative at Duke and I assume at NW, but like engineering, probably worth the dings to your GPA to fight your way through the coursework. We are past the point of plentiful jobs in the financial sector but I would think NW would get quite a few companies doing interviews. Although my Duke son only missed two math question on the SAT…he soon realized he was average in talent at Duke in math gifts. And that will come out in exams. He doesn’t regret doing Econ but is now addressing five years later the business classes he didn’t take at Duke in night school. HOD is more of an applied learning major like a business college and in this economy despite the jeers that HOD students get (because their courses are reputed to be softer in grading than say Chemistry or Engineering majors)…HOD majors are in fact getting job related coursework. Some are planning to go directly into hospital administration (Vandy is particularly connected to this arena with HCA big in town and our Vandy Trustee chair for many years was CEO of HCA). Some are also studying Medicine and Society coursework which of course is rather strong at Vanderbilt which is a major regional delivery system for all kinds of medicine. Some HOD majors will go corporate, some will head into education or policy graduate work. Nashville of course is small compared to Chicago but that does mean that in Nashville there are plentiful places around town for your internships and community outreach studies and it is a cinch to get to these locations…stress free compared to Chicago. Anyway, HOD majors seem to have their eyes on employment which is a good thing. As many graduate schools favor people who have worked for 2-4 years…and you still then have time to think more about graduate school. I would look into employment outcomes for graduates in both schools. good luck again with your “terrible” problem of three excellent open doors.