Does everyone who got accepted (congrats BTW!) have the credit transfer tab now?
Does anyone know when the next wave is expected to be?
maybe next Friday i guess
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I didn’t have the tab before my decision was posted and I still don’t have it
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Hello everyone! First time posting here, but I woke up from a nap to an email saying that my decision was available…and I got accepted! I’m pretty shocked because I applied well after the March 15th deadline, but here are my stats:
School applied to: WCAS, physics major, currently math CS at my current school
Academic info: 4.0 GPA at a private school ranked in USNews top 20, 36 ACT and a 1600 SAT, 3 800 Subject tests, “meh” HS GPA/record though but was a good test taker
Extracurriculars: published research (not math/CS/Physics related), leadership in an outreach STEM club, TA for classes since my second semester, student paper, student gov’t
Awards: dean’s list, presidential scholar semifinalist, national merit commended, some HS athletic awards.
Gender: male
Strengths: high GPA at a good private school, great rec letters
Weaknesses: essays (I am an awful writer), ECs aren’t as great as they seem, was rejected last year as a transfer
Current results:
Accepted: UCLA, Northwestern
Rejected: UCB, UChicago
Waiting: Cornell, Yale, Duke, Penn, Rice, JHU, USC
Undecided between UCLA and NU at the moment, and my choice will likely come down to that unless I get into Yale or Penn.
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good luck with your next school! <3
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that’s crazy. good luck and congrats on ucla too!
I just got accepted as a 2nd year transfer from an IL community college!! So there is hope my fellow CC peers!!!
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Does anyone think that they are releasing results according to majors and also acceptance and rejections? My hypothesis is that rejections of all majors are pretty random. However, most acceptances of a specific major are released in single waves: Like econ for the first wave and engineering for the second. Another evidence could be I know several polisci rejections but no Polisci acceptance yet. Just a random guess. Good luck to everyone!!
And I feel like for this wave literally every acceptance I know are junior transfers
At most it would be school-dependent, but even that I’m not sure considering you can change your school pretty easily in your application portal. From everyone I’ve asked at NU, transfer admissions decisions aren’t made major-by-major, else they’d need to involve departments to make decisions as well (which they aren’t).
congrats!! fingers crossed for me then
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I guess to add to the ‘stats’ for your ‘hypotheses.’
I got accepted 4-29, submitted 3-15, but last transcript 2 weeks later (prob already established completion date does not matter, unless super past 4-10)
Weinberg-biology, 2nd year transfer from IL cc, chicago suburb, no scores sent(my 4th & best was still under nu’s 25th%… lol), non-legacy, never applied before, but i attended a lot of student & officer panels (if that even mattered).
I got good grades, but people with same or even ‘better’ stats are getting rejected, so although stats are important, how you offer your ‘niche’ (interests & goals) seems to be more important holistically. Specifically what you have done to pursue that and how it aligns with what’s at nu.
Ex) my whole app (essays & ecs) centered around insert niche. (Plus i even had a minor typo… so i guess it didnt break my app).
Good luck everyone! Everyone is intelligent, talented, and will do fine in life. Doesn’t matter where you go as long as you keep working hard!
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I still haven’t heard anything, although I only submitted my personal statement on 4/19 (they only just let me know it was missing a few days prior). I submitted the rest of the app on 3/15.
I’m a freshman math major at a small but well-respected northeastern liberal arts school (similar to Reed in selectivity and academic focus), so would be transferring as class of 2025.
High school GPA of 3.7 but a strong upswing as a junior and senior, plus some important personal context explaining why I struggled early on.
I have a 4.0 from my first semester and a preliminary 4.0 for this semester as well, including two 300-level courses.
36 ACT, 5 Calculus BC, 800 SAT MATH II. Founder/president of student government at my little-known HS, plus the instructor of an official elective.
This year, I’ve won every math competition the college has held, plus was in the 75th percentile on the Putnam. Also part of the college’s History Student Advisory Board.
Applied as a freshman to Northwestern last year and was rejected. This time I finally visited campus (I’m from NYC) and met with the chair of the math department.
Also applied to (and have not heard from) Haverford, Rice, and Brown, though the latter is obviously extremely unlikely.
I’m sure I’m an underdog for admission, but I don’t know whether to take it as a good or bad sign that I haven’t heard anything, especially considering that I only submitted the essay last week.
I got admitted as a sophomore transfer yesterday
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“underdog for admission.” buddy, my jaw was on the FLOOR reading ur stats. I’m sure ur gonna get into one of these schools, no problem
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I guess there’s no reason for me not to say it: I attend Connecticut College.
Congrats!!!
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Oh wow, Congrats!! that’s a failed hypothesis then lolll.
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NO WAY I did too my freshman year