hammeranvil

I am going to visit Northwestern on Friday. Deciding between U of I and Northwestern.

Hi everyone, I'm hew here, but have been reading the forums for a while. I've enjoyed reading everyone's contributions to the different threads over the past few weeks. My question is about Northwestern. I was thrilled to get in there for Fall '13, but there's an issue that concerns me. While most of the schools have close to perfect program completion rates, Northwestern has had lots of people drop out of the program several years in a row (one year 7 people dropped out, another year 5, etc.) These numbers seem small but considering the denominator is only about 40, it's worrying. What do you think the reason for this is? Maybe the high tuition fees? Is it a harder and more stressful program? Is there anything dodgy about the program?! What are your opinions?