Northwestern University Top Questions

What do you consider the worst thing about Northwestern University? Why?

Jane

It's really expensive and sometimes i don't think the education or quality of life I get is worth how much I pay.

Zhuoyin

The weather gets pretty brutal in the winter. There are a lot of people who are very self-absorbed because of a pampered upbringing.

Ben

The school tends to be polarized by the north and south campus stereotypes and tendencies. The north campus students tend to be mostly science or economics students, while south campus is very artsy. The two different student populations seem to be seperate and different in how they interact.

Matthew

Funding for studeng groups is distributed on a highly uneven basis, where millions of dollars are allocated to a handful of groups, and the remaining student organizations get from 500-2000 a year.

Carol

Its hard sometimes to meet people because there are soo many people. Once you fall into a click its difficult to get out of it.

Jillian

Money. Very costly

Mykell

It's too hard.

Sean

The science fields are cut throat. Don't expect to make new friends in class. If you're not already friends with someone from in one of your classes, don't even bother asking for help. 90{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the time people will mislead or deny you help in hopes that you will lower the curve. Things are awful until senior year, when the curve plays less of a role in class. During senior year, people tend to be more friendly.

Jose

Perhaps some of the students at this school have not been beaten up by life too much. The competitiveness is good, but the greed is the worst.

Carla

Because most people are smart and at the top of their classes in high school, everyone overachieves. Everyone wants to kills themselves by doing everything they can at the same time to prove their abilities. No one just sits back and does nothing for once.