<p>I live near seattle right now with my parents. And yeah that’s what I thought too. </p>
<p>Initially I wanted to transfer out of NYU because I hated it…there was no community whatsoever and I was pretty depressed because I didn’t have a solid group of friends. So instead of staying there for a full year I came back to the University of Washington after a semester (it’s super expensive and I was paying full since I was a Sternie and scholarships are harder to get as one). </p>
<p>University of Washington was definitely a transition school, just somewhere to get credit as I waited to decide on/hear back from other schools. I’ll be at USC as a Marshall student in fall. I’m not too surprised, for the Why Northwestern essay it was too much ******** not enough substance, I guess</p>
<p>Various ECs in both college and high school.</p>
<p>NU was my 1st choice (if I got the proper FA) but I guess it wasn’t meant to be. Good luck to everyone else and I’m anxious to get started at Vanderbilt!</p>
<p>HS GPA: 3.89
College GPA: 3.87
ACT: 30
Plenty of EC’s
Good essays</p>
<p>I just don’t get it! I don’t know what they’re looking for. Anyway, my current school’s financial aid package is better than what I would probably have gotten from Northwestern. And we have good advisors at my school, unlike some places. Good luck out there for those of you still in the game…</p>
<p>Accepted and will be attending!!!
Came via USPS in a large white envelope. I’m in California, so anyone else who’s waiting in SoCal should be finding out soon.</p>
<p>HS GPA: 3.5
SAT: ~1900
Professional work in my desired field really held me back in HS, as I was sometimes unable to balance meetings and going to class; I explained this in the essay and contrasted the underachievement with my current academic successes.</p>
<p>College GPA: 4.0
Several ECs (including starting a club at my current school)
Great LORs (TAs wrote my recommendations)
Really, really, really good essays in retrospect
Weekly interaction with the admissions office via phone to demonstrate interest
URM status</p>
<p>by the way guys, I think sending in final transcript helped. I think that is the reason why I got accepted. I was taking hard classes and ended up with good grades. Good luck!!</p>
<p>Of the people who haven’t heard, did any of you put anything for the research question on the supplemental? I’m sort of curious if they hand that off to a specific department to review or if they try to do it in-house. Either way, could it delay a decision?</p>
<p>@jayfromla- I’m planning on finding a studio apartment or some other such lodging. Figure I’d rather pay a bit more to have things under my control than to put myself at the mercy of NU’s res. life. I too will probably go Greek, just as a means of quickly extending my social network in a foreign environment. </p>
<p>@jwy141- I included a lengthy synopsis of my research activities, both what our lab was doing in general, and what my particular project entailed (molecular virology). They never contacted my PI, even though I listed his contact info in the synopsis. I don’t know whether they ever reviewed in in full. I wrote it specifically in very technical language, both in the hopes that it would impress the layman as well as force an expert to review my qualifications - which I felt would stand up well to more focused scrutiny.</p>
<p>@McCubsFan So you’d have an apartment in the interim between moving into whichever frat you join? Sounds good. How much should a studio in Evanston run you? I haven’t done my research yet.</p>
<p>I figured an apartment for at least the first year. Maybe I’m not used to how the frats work up there, but at least where I was from, you really had to wait a year to get a spot in one of the frat houses even if you wanted to live there.</p>