Northwestern: not your typical "smart school"My mother went to Northwestern and it was the first college I visited my junior year in high school. It had a great reputation but I didn't know much else about it. I really liked the campus so I applied to a program, CPP (The College Preparatory Program), was accepted, and spent the best summer of my life there. While I was there, I connected with current NU student, lived in the dorms, and took actually courses through the University. I even got credit. In my anthropology class, I really conne...