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No! If you have the right attitude, you can find a good deal of things to do at night and on weekends. There's plenty of fraternity parties and off-campus house parties. And even if there isn't something appealing to do on campus, if you can't find something fun to do in Evanston or Chicago it's your own fault! And as for the attractiveness of the student body, I personally don't have a problem with it but I do hear people complain about it a good amount. Personally, I think there is a good amount of pretty girls and good looking guys. Maybe it's a smaller number than usual relative to the size of the student body but there's definitely attractive people at Northwestern. Also, it seems that the attractive people seem to congregate a little, so if you're in the right group you can find a large number of attractive students.

The campus is mostly not frat boys and sorority girls, but for underclassmen, their social activities primarily dominate the social scene, at least until you turn 21. It is mostly expected that as a student at Northwestern you will go on to either graduate school, business school, law school, or med school. However, most seniors take at least 1 year off to do volunteer work abroad or teach for america in the US. There are definately students who stress too much about the work they have to do. But if you just remember to keep things in perspective, the workload is fine.

Everybody's not from the Midwest... there's a lot of Californians here. Not everybody's rich, but it's a pretty privileged community, but I don't think most people are stuck-up. But they do tend to be pretty tame.

Obviously stereotypes exist for a reason, and there is a large cohort of people that are anti-social and awkward. However, good times and fun people definitely exist at Northwestern, and it's not that hard to find them. Go to Hundo or a PWild party and you'll realize that NU students like to throw down every once in a while.

Although there are the students that devote more time to academia, this composes a small sector of the student body. As a Northwestern student myself, I would describe the student body as fun yet studious, extremely dynamic and involved, and active for causes that are important to them.

All of these exist in part on campus. There are dedicated partiers, though for the most part usually either Friday or Saturday will be significantly better than the other, you never know which. Bar nights throughout the week too. Essentially its a question of scale. The entire campus isnt in perpetual Mardi Gras, but a particular house or frat can be packed. You can be any type of partier here Sports: There are some die hard sports fans, but its also a small school, so there are also die hard sorority sisters who just came by to watch their pledge daughter do backflips at half time. All sports are free though, and NU is competitive within the Big Ten, far more so than records show. Theres a big showing at "non marquis sports" but Football has a decent turnout. Basketball Id like to see bigger crowds. My biggest pet peeve is that there are a ton of Midwesterners who still like their home team. A lot of them come around after freshman year, but its still disheartening to see ohio state colors in the student section Pre Med kids will cut you, as will journalists for a prime editorship. everyone else is chill

We are nerdy - you kind of have to be smart to get in to this school - but most people still know how to have fun. Of course, there's not a very large party scene on campus, but the bars tend to make up for that. I think it's a good balance between work and play. It is true about the boys - there's cute, and then there's "Northwestern cute". The standards are certainly lowered.

All of them are true to some extent, they are all exaggerations however.

Well, relatively speaking I suppose they are.

Everyone here has really nerdy aspects about them, but many do there best to try and hide it