@orangeclockwork my daughter was deferred she applied to Performance Studies SOC - There seem to be a lot of deferred students- we were told by our school less than 10%- she will write to admissions to let them know it is her 1st choice
@lion56 are you me??? I also had good essays and recs and all but had few Bs on my transcript 
Maybe that’s why but idk
wish I knew what I did wrong to get deferred…
i was deferred. 35 ACT, 3.89 unweighted gpa (but i switched high schools to a significantly harder school in my junior year so i was hoping they’d understand my bad gpa but apparently not). i thought my essays were good and my recs i’m assuming were good but i havent been able to read them. i have a double legacy (and my mom was faculty for 15 years) and had a ton of demonstrated interest but apparently that didnt work 
@ishmuk7707 how did you compute your gpa from 2 different schools into 3.89? Do you know how NU computes it? And all these great stat kids are getting deferred. Wonder what is gpimg on this admissiom cycle. I haven’t seen NU release the ED number of applications and number of acceptances. Most of the ivy schools have posted these stats. Does anyone know the stats for NU?
@Stgmom I switched within the same school district so nothing changed. No idea how northwestern does it.
@ishmuk7707 im so sorry. i would think that you would be a shoe-in. i was also deferred but i didn’t expect to get in
Really!? I haven’t heard of anyone else who even applied to performance studies. There aren’t many schools who have it unfortunately—which is what make NU so high on my list. The only other school I’m applying to that offers it as a major is NYU.
@eyun2019 my daughter really likes the school spirit and campus- NYU an excellent choice for Performance studies0 I think she found some other schools that have something like it- I wonder how many they admit at NU and how many deferred- Where do you live?
My daughter was accepted
1570 sat / gpa 4.6 weighted
Varsity sport captain and relatively strong ECs
We are very excited!
I got accepted early decision to McCormick! Here are my stats.
GPA: 4.0
ACT: 33 composite, 36 STEM
SAT: 1390
AP: Gov (3), Lang (3) in AP Calc and Lit. (School only offers five AP classes)
Sports: One year varsity, three years JV
Extracurriculars: Student class treasurer, NHS, Robotics.
Personal: Poor Hispanic from a rural town
“wish I knew what I did wrong to get deferred…”
You apparently didn’t do anything wrong. You were deferred-not rejected. But even if you were rejected, it’s likely that you did not do anything wrong. You applied to a school where about 87% of the students are rejected. Many students assume that a substantial number of applicants to these highly competitive schools are from students who have poor grades and/or scores and/or activities. That’s because most schools only publish data about those students they accept. It’s easy to imagine those rejected probably have scores/grades/activities that are somewhat or very much lower than those accepted. Only a few schools publish that other data-the rejection data. I don’t think Northwestern is one of them.
If more schools would post those stats, fewer would be as distraught by being rejected or deferred. Princeton provides more of the data and by using the rejection data along with the CDS you could probably calculate odds pretty well. Consider this: approximately 94.2% of applicants with GPAs between 3.9 and 3.99 were rejected. Chances improve by less than 3% for those with 4.0 GPA’s. Same for scores. Princeton rejects nearly 93% of applicants with scores in the 32-36 range. They reject over 95% of those scoring in the 22-26 range. I believe MIT’s data provides numbers of applicants for each interval which would also help clearly illustrate that an immense number of students with the highest possible scores and grades are rejected.
Although I know many people think admissions is a “crap shoot”. I don’t really think it is so. But, most really terrific students who do everything right will be rejected from schools that accept a minuscule number of applicants. It is because they do, that they are often over-valued. Thus, the paradox. The problem is the value placed on a small number of schools and the seeming dismissal as adequate of the lions share of excellent colleges and universities in the US.
I heard that there were around 5-10 students in the performance studies major, however there aren’t a lot of stats on it so I’m not positive, and I don’t know anything about deferral stats!! I’m from Naples, Florida. What about you?
anyone have any theories as to why so many people were deferred?
@eyun2019 - You heard that 5-10 students in the performance studies were deferred? I am not sure how many total students they take in the department and they don’t have a cap on the number of students. My daughter and I live in Los Angeles
Anyone know when financial aid will be released?
A bit misleading title. The admit rate for ED was 27% last year, and “fell” to 25% this year
So I just found out about the Common Data Set and it’s fantastic. Basically, the schools all give a bunch of numbers about admission, class profile, etc. They obviously don’t have this year’s stats up yet, but I was looking at last year’s and there’s some really useful information about what they value in admissions. Check it out:
https://enrollment.northwestern.edu/pdf/common-data/2017-18.pdf
Submitted 3 days ago and haven’t received a portal. i have from all my other colleges so im kinda concerned. anyone else get their portal or a confirmation email for NW yet??