<p>@cbush9 – there’s a thread on the main Northwestern board (not specific to MT) that gives stats for some ED kids. We were told in a meeting with the Communications school that overall stats for the theatre program are higher than for the department as a whole since there are many more applicants per available slot, but it will give you some idea… </p>
<p>cbush9, while the link provided above is helpful, that also is just the stats of those admitted in the ED round (often an ED pool can be stronger than the RD pool of applicants to a selective college). For any college, the profile of admitted students is published and so it is more useful than anecdotal information. </p>
<p>For Northwestern, some basics about admissions…</p>
<p>27% accepted overall
40% admit rate for Early Decision
50% of the freshmen are accepted through ED (which means the admit rate in RD is lower than the overall acceptance rate)
Mid SATs: CR 670-750, M 690-780, W 670-760, Combined CR/M 1360-1530, total 2030-2290
Mid ACT 31-33
90% from top 10% of high school class, 99% from top 25% of HS class</p>
<p>However, please realize at very selective colleges, such as Northwestern, you cannot go by stats alone as it doesn’t work that way. Other factors are also very important such as rigor of curriculum, essays, recommendations, strength of extracurriculars and achievements, etc.</p>
<p>If your high school uses Naviance, you can get an idea of the SATs and GPA of students from your high school who have applied to Northwestern and their admissions results.</p>
<p>@soozievt – unfortunately all bets are off this year versus last year’s stats, as applications are up at Northwestern over 25% in ED and a similar amount in RD versus last year. They have already formally announced that at most 19% of applicants will be accepted this year versus 26% last year.</p>
<p>This year NU accepted ~700 students ED, the most they have ever accepted, so less than 35% of the freshman class is admitted ED, and only ~34% of ED applicants are accepted (not 50%) – but that is misleading as it includes recruited athletes.</p>
<p>Also, ED stats can be skewed lower because recruited athletes are included in the ED pool. In general, schools say the non-recruited-athlete ED stats are roughly the same as RD stats.</p>
<p>Here’s an article that talks about some of this…</p>
<p>Just to be clear, the “50%” I mentioned was NOT the ED rate in the past. I had given 40%. However, when I wrote “50%” that was the percentage of the entire freshmen class that were admitted through the ED round. That is not the same as an acceptance rate.</p>
<p>These stats were for the class entering in fall of 2009.</p>
<p>For the class that entered in 2010, the ED admit rate was 33.62%. </p>
<p>I believe this year, NU has an increase of 12% in applications.</p>
<p>Unless I’m mistaken, this year marked the highest percent of the freshman class ever admitted ED, and it was under 35% (under 700 ED admits).</p>
<p>The ED applications were up 25% this year, after an increase the past 2 years, which is why they admitted a slightly larger number of ED students this year. I’m not sure how much the overall application pool was up this year, but I’ll see if I can find any stats.</p>