Northwestern Transfers Fall 2017

I am planning to visit Northwestern from Los angeles next weekend. How’s the weater now? Do i need a jacket?
Also, which airport is the closest one to the school?

@mochiko O’Hare is pretty close - it’s 30 to 40 minutes away (I grew up 4 miles from the college)

it’s been a little chilly but sometimes somewhere in the 60s if you’re lucky. a little rainy

Hello! Chance mes are kinda pointless especialy at this point when everything is done and sent. I got rejected from all of the schools I wanted to go to as a senior so I guess Im just super nervous. I tried to go back and look for weaknesses and fix those (ex. A in Ochem to make up for B in AP Chem) but idk. Any honest comments or thoughts regarding my app are welcome!!

Currently part of a 6-year BS/MD (2 year undergrad/4 year med)
GPA: 4.00 (intro premed type classes- physics, bio, organic chem, biomedical ethics, etc)

HS GPA: 4.6 I think (a couple Bs in AP Chem and AP Calc)
ACT: 35
SAT: 2220/2400
SAT2: 700 Bio, 720 Lit, 720 Math2

Extra Curriculars:
High school
-3 Year Tennis
-Founder and President of JSA club
-Founder and President of Dance club
-Officer of a leadership club at my school (Jaguar Ambassadors)
-Chairperson of Pennies for Patients (raised $5,000 for cancer patients with financial needs)
-400+ Volunteer Hours at Local Hospital & Temple
-Research Internship at local hospital (did very well at science fairs using the research I did here)
-Raised a $7,500 to help build a school in an Indian village and helped set up curriculum
-AP Scholar w/ Distinction
-National Merit Semifinalist (223 in Ohio)
-Science fair awards previously mentioned

College
-Univeristy Hearing Board (hearings for misconduct cases)
-Phi Delta Epsilon (Pre-med co-ed frat)
-An inner city tutoring club
-research
-President’s List

My midyear report was good, all As

Recs should be good

My reason for wanting to transfer is wanting more than 2 years for undergrad and to study more diverse classes- idk if colleges will look at that as a strong enough reason

@VaishS Your quantitative and qualitative factors are excellent - I really like your chances.

I guess no decision today.

@VaishS past years threads didn’t say exactly 6, some said 6:15 or later so who knows! could start today, but if not then it’ll probably be next week for the first round.

did they stipulate timezone? I’m in Chicago and its 5:30 so still plenty of time…

Yeah i’m on central time and I thought a lot of the emails came at like 6:15 PM CST or 6:37 PM sort of thing, like around after 6PM

Anyone get anything?

Got an email at exactly 6PM EST saying my application is incomplete lol

me too lol. I sent my transcript on April 3rd through usps ground… It should arrive tomorrow at most right?

@inordie Depends on where you’re from, but even from like California or something it prolly should be tomorrow.

Based on other users, even after you have all your stuff in they might take a bit to notify you that your app is complete

I called today, but they told me it was incomplete. And I got my mail saying it was incomplete at 6pm. I sent mine from New York, so I really hope I can get it updated tmr.

Well I guess no decisions today

so next wednesday then?

They didn’t get my transcript :((

could be any day i guess not necessarily wednesday

well i’m not too torn up about it. good thing about NU not having a portal is that i don’t feel the need to check it every 30 minutes when decision time comes around