Northwestern Waitlist 2025

Those are excellent options you have and can’t go wrong in either case.

For the others, my son was WL at GaT and they sent an email that their WL has 4900 people on it which is up from 4,000 something last year. That is insane. Purdue for CS before my son declined had posted something somewhere saying that they were having a big yield and were not going to be taking transfers for next year’s class and were still trying to manage their class sizes for the fall in terms of keeping them small. After being postponed in the EA round at Mich mine was accepted in the big round the same day NU released decisions in late March. We think he may have been the only one accepted in that round from our school. He did write the ECI. He also sent an update to NU but it was most likely after decisions were already finalized. That said, it seems like GaT, Purdue, UIUC, Madison, Michigan, Texas - schools like that are having huge yields. And that a lot of kids that normally get into Ivies (he’s heard a lot of stories in the UM group and it’s clear here and happened to him as well) didn’t. I think those schools are the beneficiaries. That said, I wonder what is going to happen then with those waitlists including NU. He’s pretty much ruled out GaT even if they offer him a spot now, and that leaves UNC which I’m sure he won’t jump from Michigan, and NU which is much weaker in Engineering and CS than Michigan but since we live in Chicago it would be an easy switch if he decides. But, I’m hoping he doesn’t switch as he is excited about Michigan and settling in, housing, looking at classes, meeting kids, etc. It’s hard for everyone. That said, same goes for all of you. If you have an option consider that and start to get exciting and make plans. NU’s email today said they don’t plan to do anything until May 3 after commitment day. There will be a few lucky ones. I wouldn’t be surprised if their list were huge and maybe they will reveal it then but for those that do get off, fantastic!! It’s been a rough year for many, but everything happens for a reason!!

Good luck and congrats to everyone, and @gherman, again fantastic choices. We loved Wash U, it reminded me of NU, although my son didn’t like it, I would’ve loved for him to have applied there. I would go there in a minute.

1 Like

did you leave the waitlist? also people who got into way better schools and would love to go there plz decline the nu waitlist to give others a chance

1 Like

so should we send in an LOCI or no?

I think we should send in an LOCI.

1 Like

A couple people on A2C who got waitlisted from NU said they had a new processed document on IDOC dated ~4/28 that’s blank. Can everyone confirm if they have this as well?

Do you have it as well? We have it too.

Where do I check?

I have it too, but as you said, it’s blank so I don’t know if it’s anything to do with NU

May I kindly ask where to check

Does NW have a good CS program.

Not a top program but plenty of people still go there and happily major in CS.

I do not. What is the form for?

IDOC is just for people who applied for financial aid, so you shouldn’t even have a section for it if you did not.

Hey today is May 1st, has anyone heard from Northwestern this week on their waitlist offer

does anyone know when they would start calling?

Since we had to accept the waitlist offer by May 3, I would assume they won’t start calling until then? But I’m not sure.

1 Like

When they do start calling, does anyone know what happens if you are unable pick up because you’re busy with work/school? Do they immediately move onto the next person?

I think they would update your offer in your portal and send you an email instead of moving onto the next one. Otherwise international students would merely have a chance to get off(time zone).

has anyone gotten any calls yet?
today is May 3

They should start calling this week