<p>I absolutely LOVE the communication studies major at Northwestern, and I know it's a bit of a reach for me, but I was wondering if anyone knows the avg. stats of that major or acceptance rate. I know that a lot more goes into the admissions process, but just for my piece of mind, ya know? I just submitted my application and now all I can do is pray!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I don't have the stats right next to me or anything (sorry), but I just wanted to say I'm applying to the Communication School as well - and even to the same major as you!</p>
<p>Communication studies is one of the easiest and most popular majors at Northwestern. It's probably very competitive for admissions so write a strong essay.</p>
<p>Yikes. I'm applying for communication studies too. Good luck to everybody!</p>
<p>thanks! good luck to you too! hopefully we'll all be classmates next year :)
does anyone have a guess at the stats?</p>
<p>idk the stats but i applied to communication studies too! :)</p>
<p>i'm applying come fall 2009. good luck to you all.</p>
<p>the acceptance rate for Northwestern's School of Communication is roughly 24% with about 22,000 people applying to the school as a whole with only 5,900 being accepted between early decision and regular applicants. In one accepted class of 5,900 , only 240 students are admitted to communications. good luck =]</p>
<p>spicegirl707 - Are you sure that 240 refers to admitted students? I think more may be admitted and only 240 attend. I'm not sure about that though. It just sounds a little more realistic.</p>
<p>Re: Post #3: Not necessarily true. Certainly not true with respect to grading. Although engineering students have a grueling schedule at NU.</p>
<p>BleedingBlue - You're right. "Admitted" refers to total number accepted, not the final number attending. 240 refers to the final count of students entering as freshman in that given year.</p>
<p>pearlgirl - The HS grades of Comm kids are very similar to those seen in NU's other schools but the median SAT scores are indeed lower. I've never put much stock in % admitted - you never know what pool you're drawing from. A lot of kids applying in theater, RTF, dance, etc. have great extracurriculars to boost weaker standardized test scores. </p>
<p>Remember also that Comm applicants are themselves a very varied bunch. Comparing a theater applicant to a communications studies applicant is very apples and oranges. The adcoms will be looking for very different attributes.</p>
<p>so TOTAL freshman enrolled in the School of Communications (SoC) is 240.. from there you roughly split up those students into the five departments within SoC as far as what they decide to major in, so in fact there are probably way less communications studies majors. </p>
<p>My figuring is probably sorely inaccurate since the departments probably don't divvy up their students so equally, and people can double major, etc, but you get the picture.</p>
<p>the five different majors offerred in SoC:
communication science and disorders
communication studies
R/TV/F
performance studies
theatre</p>
<p>(i'm applying for r/tv/f, but good luck to everyone of course!)</p>
<p>Yeah, you're right, stacym. I know that the theatre department usually has around 100 in an incoming class...leaving 140 for the rest.</p>
<p>My understanding is that theatre majors cannot double major within the School of Communications & that no student may select theatre as a second major, but can do so in performance studies.</p>
<p>Yeah, ColdWind, that's about right. Theatre majors cannot double major within SoC or with Medill. I'm not positive about Performance Studies.</p>