Not Your Typical College Town

Introduction
I actually transferred here from a different University and I came here for the reputation of the Pre-Medical Program.

Campus Life and Social Life
It’s not your stereotypical college town. There’s not a huge bar scene. If you want that, you have to go to Chicago, hop on the L and take that down there. I mean, there are a few shops. Lots of restaurants, so students have a lot of opportunity to eat out skip from the dining halls do that.

The student body is definitely very diverse. A lot more diverse than my old school. As far as competitiveness, I find it’s ridiculously competitive compared to my old school. Especially with the Pre-Medical program, which I’m in.

All the big science classes, they’re huge lectures. It’s not like cutthroat, people don’t—I’ve heard stories at other schools where people are mean to each other. It’s not like that here, but it’s really competitive, everyone studies a lot.

I mean, you want to go out one night and you feel like you need to stay in just to try to compete with them. But I don’t think all the schools are like that within NWU. Advertisement
Academics
There are the big science classes, which is all lectures. You might have a couple hundred people I there. Class sizes really vary. Once you get like within your major in the school of education and Social policy all my classes are really small. They range from 15 people to 30 and they’re usually based on discussion, there’s not much lecture w/in those classes.

This summer, through the School of Education Social Policy, most of the students are required to do what’s called a practicum. As an internship, you can either do it here in Chicago or you can do it in S.F. over the summer, you can do it in Washington DC over the summer and I chose to do S.F. They help you find an internship, you can pretty much do in wherever you want and I’ve decided to do mine at the S.F. general hospital. So I have an internship there. I’ll work 4 days a week and then. A professor goes with us and we have class on Fridays and we write a paper through your entire experience.
I would say most of my classes with my major, I do see my professors on a regular basis. I try to always go in and talk to them and they’re usually really friendly. Then compare that to the pre-medical courses that are usually really big, I don’t really find a chance to go in there.

Student Body
In the smaller schools or within your major, I think you definitely have a good relationship with your professors and most of them always are open. They want to talk to you. They want to talk about your plans and your future and your goals and graduate school and they’re really awesome that way.

You hear a lot about the hook up culture, which people say it’s a NWU thing, but I don’t think that’s true, it’s more of a college thing. So as far as like the dating scene, I mean you have the bars here and you have the ones in Chicago and a lot of people go to those on a regular basis. So if you want to meet people, that’s probably your fest bet. You can try the library. That’s probably not a good idea, though, you’ll probably strike out.
We have a really big Greek System here at NWU, which I’m actually not a part of. But I think it’s something like 35/40% of the school is. So most of the parties are usually right here at the fraternities, but there’s an awful lot of people who live off-campus that there’s parties just in Evanston and the town that surrounds here. The mix between those two is where you want to find a good party on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night.

In Closing...
I love the school of Education and Social policy. It’s the smallest school at NWU. And it’s really competitive, but if you can make it through it, I feel like most people will have a really awesome chance of getting into Medical School coming out of NWU and the Pre-Medical program.