Post your sats, comments, questions, whatever is on your mind and relevant to your transfer. I’ll start.
Rising Junior – Applying to CAS Econ
Basic Rundown:
Current School: State School out West
College GPA: 3.872
HS GPA: 3.6UW/4.4W
ACT: 27 (In HS) – Plan on retaking it Feb 6th… Expecting a conservative 32+
Need for Financial Aid: Yes
Extracurriculars in College:
(1) Residential Realtor for a large brokerage locally
(2) Two Private Wealth Management internships (8 weeks) & (10 weeks) + Another I may be starting during the Spring
(3) Extern Finance-group founder, organized and planed trips to local firms with fellow students. Went to Vanguard and Edward Jones.
(4) Two part-time jobs: Server/Busboy & Valet
(5) Investments Club & Financial Management Association member
(6) Founded an online e-commerce business, did 2.5k in sales in November.
(7) Amateur Day Trader (stocks)
Sophomore Year Courses:
1st Semester: Econ200, Accounting200, Statistics276, Gen ed tier 1, Gen ed tier 2 (15 Units) – Received a 4.00
2nd Semester: Accounting210, Statistics 277, Finance417, Gen ed tier 2, Gen ed tier 2, Business Ethics (19 Units) – Expect a 4.0
College Rec:
My Career Advisor/Professor who I meet with regularly and have a great relationship with.
Essays:
I will make a convincing argument for why my current institution cannot provide me with the resources and alumni I need to be successful and pursue the career field I intend to. I’ll site some specific programs and unique things about NU that will my show interest and knowledge of them.
Feel free to chance me, or don’t, share your thoughts/questions. Good luck to everyone applying!
Also applying for transfer! Hoping to get into the school of engineering.
Current School: commoooonity college
College GPA: 4.0
HS GPA: 3.9
ACT: 30 in HS, also retaking Feb 6
SAT II’s: taking bio, math2, and lit this Saturday - “strongly encouraged” for transfer apps who were homeschooled in HS
Need for Financial Aid: Yes
Extracurriculars in College:
Not many
full-time job in management/event sales in retail, 52% increase in units sold in my area (in-store events) over LY
Currently in calc3 at school, maybe will get ODE in over the summer but doubtful.
Best of luck to you!
Hey guys! I am a Sophmore at a community college and I will graduate in May with my Associates in Liberal Arts. Here are my stats:
Academic Stats:
- GPA: 4.0
- Member of my school’s Honors Program
- Member of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society
- Participated in an Honors Independent Study Language & Politics Course
Activities:
- Organized a charity drive where over $2,000 and over 4,600 personal hygiene items were collected and donated to local women’s and abuse shelters
- Member of my school’s New Student Orientation Team. I volunteered to help organize orientation for new students, gave tours of campus, and was part of a student panel where we answered questions
- Intern for my local county’s Democrats office
- Member of WolfPAC, a political organization who works to get private money out of public elections and stop corruption in politics. I successfully convinced my congresswoman to co-sponsor and vote for a bill to help this cause.
- Organized a Rock The Vote voter registration drive at my school that will take place this Spring
- Student coach for two local youth ice hockey associations
- Participated in student exchange program to France
Work Experience:
- Customer Service Rep for Barney & Dickenson Inc. (A construction materials company)
This is all I can think of right now. I’m currently working on crafting my application and hope to finish it and send it in at the end of next week. You can chance me if you like. I love Northeastern and it’s co-op program and I am nervous about my chances.
I would say you have a good chance, although I am not an expert. Good luck to you!
Chances?
Current school: Umich-Ann Arbor
Gpa: 3.75
Act: 33
Extracurriculars: working on 2 start ups. Manager at a Hampton inn. Internship at Northwestern Mutual. Hall council representative.
@Giraffing in the hope of making sure you don’t send in applications to the wrong school, this is the Northwestern forum, not the Northeastern forum. I hope, before you submit your app, you make sure that, if it is Northeastern you are thinking of, you submit to Northeastern, and the same for Northwestern.
It seems like you’re thinking of Northeastern because you mention the co-op program. However, if that is one of the main reasons you are applying to Northeastern, there are co-op programs or programs of a similar type run by many of Northwestern’s undergraduate colleges, so you might consider applying to Northwestern.
Also, our transfer deadline is pretty late, I think, so you’d definitely have time to prepare your app if you haven’t started yet but would be interested in applying to Northwestern.
I’ll be applying to Northwestern too! I’m currently a second semester sophomore at a university ranked around #50.
College:
College GPA: 4.0/4.0 over 53 credits
English major and Classics minor
Will need Financial Aid
HS:
Secular Studies GPA: 5.07/4.3 (straight A’s and A+’s in all Honors – school did not offer any AP classes)
Jewish Studies GPA: 3.97/4.3 (shows upward trend every year to where I got straight A’s, but was in Regulars)
I had on average 18 classes a semester in high school due to the dual curriculum.
I only took one AP (English Lit) during high school and received a 4 - I self studied.
I was accepted to my current university through an Early Admissions program, which let me skip 12th grade. So I only went to high school for 3 years.
SAT: 2220 (770 CR, 760 W, 690 M)
ACT: 32 (36 E, 34 CR, 32 M, 27 S)
Did not take SAT Subject Tests ever
College Extracurriculars:
Reporter for School Newspaper, Internship at the Mayor’s Office in a Nearby City, Paid Peer Tutor at the University, On the Committee for Programming at the Hillel on Campus, Member of University’s Grievance Committee, Note-Taker for Office of Disabilities at the University, Coach for a Little League Sports Team on Sundays, Social Director for the Condo I Live in, Founding Member of University’s Classics Table, Founding Member of University’s Fantasy Sports Club
Recommendations: Two professors I’ve taken twice each (one is an English professor and one is a Math professor). I went to their office hours a lot so they know me quite well, and I received A’s and A+'s from them both, so I think the letters will be strong.
I’m hoping!
Rising sophomore, applying for poli sci
HS
3.76 GPA
NHS
Key Club
Math Team
Golf Team, Captain
Volunteering for social services organization
College
Northeastern state school
4.0 GPA (first semester, expect similar this semester)
Honors Program
35 ACT
DJ at college radio station
Club golf team
Pre-Law Society
Working a job
Volunteering for same organization (albeit less and only on breaks)
Essay
Touched on reasons for leaving in the main “Why transfer?” essay in Common App, and touched on why I love Northwestern in the Northwestern Statement essay. Not reinventing the wheel, but I’ve known I’m transferring since before I sent the deposit to my school, so I had months to write and polish the essays. I had a high school English teacher and a college professor look both over.
Recommendations I assume are good, one from an Honors class and another from a freshman seminar teacher.
My hope is that my college GPA and ACT scores can outweigh my high school record. I never tried the way I should’ve in high school, and while I did alright, it was below my potential. I’m in a good place with effort now, here’s to hoping NU thinks that too.
I applied to Northwestern last year and was waitlisted. They said that if I wanted to reapply, that they would keep my previous application information for one full year. How does this affect my applying to transfer to Northwestern?
Officially sent out my application. 
Does anyone know if we’re going to get emails about setting up portals and stuff like that?
@cheesecake51 I would try looking for info in the following links. If you don’t find anything that pertains to your situation, or what you find is unclear to you, I recommend calling the admissions office.
http://admissions.northwestern.edu/faqs/transferring-to-northwestern/index.html
http://admissions.northwestern.edu/apply/transfer.html
@Normalcommunity Are you COE or LSA at Michigan?
Current second semester freshman at a community college
Applying for Medill school of journalism
HS Stats:
ACT: 30
GPA: 3.78
ECs:
300+ volunteer hours for non-profit organization focused on being anti-drug, alcohol and tobacco for adults and teens
1 year staff member of yearbook
1 year editor of yearbook
Tech Club member
International Honors Thespian (1000+ hours dedicated to HS theatre)
Quill & Scroll Honors Society member (honors journalism society)
Secretary of drama club
President of drama club
Waitress at retirement home for 2+ years
College Stats:
First semester GPA: 4.0
Honors student
Heavily involved in theatre productions
Editor on newspaper
Phi Theta Kappa (honors society) member
Waitress at retirement home
Letters of Rec:
1 required, 3 accepted
Plan to ask honors english professor, mass communications professor, and possibly humanities professor or HS yearbook advisor
Should I ask any high school teachers? Should I vary subjects (ex: ask for math or science)?
Does it matter that I have taken 6 honors courses already and 19 credit hour semesters?
How about that I will be the first in my family to get a college degree?
Or that I am half Hispanic (mother born and raised in Mexico)?
Anyone have any info on when Northwestern sends out acceptances since they are rolling?
The RD results have me a bit terrified. I was hoping my continued interest (ED->defer->reject, finally actually toured last weekend) and 34 ACT could outweigh my 3.53 first semester GPA, but at this point I’m not expecting anything.
What schools are ya’ll transferring from?
Did everyone receive the “application complete” email?
Yes, I did received it in mid march like two days after submitting my application @NwthisO
Only thing I got was a receipt confirmation email and nothing else.