<p>Accepted to Weinberg. Letter dated 6/16, received on 6/19 in NY. </p>
<p>While it is an amazing honor to be accepted to one of my dream schools, I will most likely not be accepting the offer. I’m stuck in a very difficult choice and, weighing the pros and cons, I can’t logically rationalize transferring anymore. </p>
<p>Some stats for future applicants:</p>
<p>Junior Transfer from SUNY Stony Brook. Majoring in Biology & Political Sciences looking to get my M.D./Ph.D
GPA to date: 3.91
SAT: 2080 (1380/1600)
SAT II’s: Poor.
Extracurriculars: Several honor societies, community involvement, campus paper, and about a year of (basic science) Research.
Essays: I actually felt this was my second worst essay (of my transfer ones) , which is amusing because my “better” essays failed to produce the turnarounds I wanted, but NU is actually the best of the bunch. I mainly focused on why I wanted to transfer to NU specifically, my interest in several fields of research related to my own, my interest in noted faculty, the academic philosophy, and some opportunities available.
Recs: Strong, I think. They came from two writing professors that I had built a great rapport with and we shared a great deal of mutual respect. </p>
<p>HS: ~93 GPA, heavy involvement in all sorts of things: music (violin for 10+ years), varsity tennis (3 years), MUN (competitive for 4 years), bunch of honor societies, etc. 14 APs taken during my HS curriculum. Did not apply to NU out of HS. </p>
<p>Trust me when I say it’s extremely difficult to turn down a dream, but it would be myopic to change schools in my present situation.</p>
<p>@dingdingmh - seems to me that the request for your “final college transcript” in the instructions of what you need to do “as soon as possible” is it for your credits.</p>
<p>Yes, my final transcript has been sent to them on May 13. And I just contact Mr.Weimer, as I supposed to within 3 weeks upon my admission. I received an email attched the transfer credits evaluation of mine this morning. They transfer all my courses!! I got 12 credits at northwestern now, number of credits a NU student usually earns for one year’s study. So I am entering as a sophomore.</p>
<p>robin, I think you might contact Richard Weimer<a href=“mailto:rpw@northwestern.edu”>rpw@northwestern.edu</a>, the assistant dean of Weinberg College right away!</p>
<p>So I applied on the last day…& have yet to hear any news which is making me a bit apprehensive. </p>
<p>What are the chances?
Rising sophomore from a pretty good public university
GPA to date: 3.78
ACT: 30
Extracurriculars: several activist groups, Model UN, pre-law club
Work: Writer for the University’s student newspaper
Essays&Recs: Relatively decent.</p>
<p>HS: 5.57/5.00 GPA
President of NHS, senior class, Drum major of marching band, AP scholar with distinction</p>
<p>my record is very similar to yours. except I have bit higher college GPA. but the difference is quite small that it’s negligible.
I haven’t heard anything yet either…so…we don’t really know what is going to happen now. what does matter is to which school did you apply?</p>