<p>then what happens at NU?</p>
<p>By intended major/school, I mean: say you picked on the app computer engineering under McCormick school, and your stats were not strong enuf for this major, does NU simply reject you outright, or, if your stats were good enough for NU, put you somewhere else?</p>
<p>UIUC does something like this, I think.</p>
<p>a related question is:</p>
<p>does each school in NU have its own admission criteria, or is it the same admission criteria for a Weinberg school applicant as a McCormick engineering applicant?</p>
<p>You apply to a school within NU. If you do not meet the criteria for that school, you are done. :(</p>
<p>thanks, mom. Do you know if the admission’s criteria for each school - or at least the profile of the act mid 50 pct and-or GPA - is published anywhere?</p>
<p>^That’s not necessarily true. From what I remember, you get to put down 2 or 3 school choices on your app, in the order of your interest. It is possible that they don’t accept you to your top pick school and put you in your second or third choice, or of course, they could reject you outright. My friend put Weinberg as his top choice, then McCormick, but he was accepted into McCormick in the end. I’m not sure about the way they decide this, but it has happened.</p>
<p>No just one school. SO pick one where your strengths can be appreciated and SHINE(lol)!</p>
<p>UIUC is a public school and has things like “impacted majors”; its engineering school has better students than those in other schools within UIUC. The difference is pretty noticeable, if not significant.</p>
<p>NU is much more flexible. Within each school, you are free to pick/switch any major within the school you are in (theater within communcations is an exception). You can always switch between WCAS and Education; transferring between WCAS and McCormick is also very common. </p>
<p>Perhaps at UIUC, computer engineering is much more popular than, say, civil engineering and they pose a limit on number of computer engineering majors. At NU, they don’t really care and you can switch from BME to EE or whatever and vice versa.</p>
<p>NU used to have SAT average by school data available on its website. According to the last one I saw, McCormick, Education, and WCAS had similar SAT averages. Even the “dumbest” school (music) had a SAT average of 1360.</p>