Wellesley or Northwestern?

Pizzagirl
Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:03:42 +0000

So she doesn’t think NU has the “wow” factor Wellesley does. Oh well. Remember, we’re Northwestern, we don’t have to be arrogant about it - that’s not our brand character. It’s not important for a school to be known by the masses. It’s only important for it to be known by the people who know better. And I feel quite confident in saying that the people who know better will think highly of both schools and it needn’t be a context. Wellesley might have more of a wow factor among old-school east coast WASPy elites. Northwestern might have more of a wow factor in other circles. I think it’s possible that Marama, living in California, may not fully understand the prestige that NU has in other parts of the country. Oh well. I don’t need to worry about that. We’re parsing small differences here, and nothing that should materially impact the OP deciding between the two. I would take prestige as being separate-but-equal and make the decision based on Boston vs Chicago, girls vs co-ed, LAC vs university.