<p>Soooo…when I get rejected tomorrow (or the 15th lol), am I allowed to apply again?</p>
<p>You’ll get put into the regular decision pool if you’re differed. Otherwise I believe it is a yes or no answer.</p>
<p>Tomorrow is my “easy day” at school - we have a block schedule so i have different classes every other day - which entails english, bio, leadership training, and then an off campus. I have to work after school until 6:30 which will be torture, and then I’m going to my school’s basketball game. I’m not checking my email until I get home from the game, my friend is coming over and we are going to open it with my parents. haha the general rule to all my other friends is “if I don’t tell you I got accepted, just don’t ask” and with my parents it’s “if i get rejected don’t talk about it ever”. Currently gathering up all my northwestern mail, pamphlets and gear into a pile so that I’m not haunted by it after tomorrow… knock on wood</p>
<p>@Ready2Graduate - Last year’s thread like this is here so you can see that others freaked out then, too. ;-D</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/northwestern-university/1025436-northwestern-university-early-decision-thread-2010-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/northwestern-university/1025436-northwestern-university-early-decision-thread-2010-a.html</a></p>
<p>Question. Does NU request 1st semester grades after admitting you ED (<em>cross fingers</em>) or just end of the year grades? Cause mine while good are by no means last years grades. Well they are when you take into account the weight for AP courses but still…</p>
<p>@Shannon: Yeah. My good friend applied ED to NU as well and I know he is getting in (he’s 10 times smarter than me and I’m smart (hate bragging on myself)). And all our friends are talking about how we’ll have such a fun time at college together and when I don’t get in, it’s just going to crush me and make me dislike them so much for having talked about it as if it were guaranteed. Regarding opening emails, I just open them and then go meh. Well I have so far with the other schools I’ve gotten into (EA/Rolling) because they weren’t my top choice. The first one I forgot to tell my parents until 2 weeks later because I posted it on facebook and assumed anyone that cared now knew. This one though will be a party because I’ve been looking forward to it all semester.</p>
<p>Edit: good call on the NU stuff. I should go do that now and hide it or something. Ughh should be revising for my exam but I frankly don’t care about Hamlet, Wuthering Heights, Wise Blood, or The Quiet American at all right now. And even less so for Marxist critique, new criticism, reader response theory and feminism. Curse you examinations, I just want my acceptance result! <em>shakes fist</em></p>
<p>So how are y’all coping at the moment? Food? This thread? Reddit? OCD’ing your room?</p>
<p>Always comes down to the weather.-_-</p>
<p>how long was everyones why NU essay??? I loved mine when i submitted it and now paranoid me is freaking out that it wasn’t long enough to be substantial ~400 words, a little under</p>
<p>Thank you, @momcares! The day before they found out last year, so did cornell and Columbia. Coincidence? I hope not!</p>
<p>Thanks cjhansen2!</p>
<p>Mine was long…): ~750-800 words.</p>
<p>I wish my mum was as awesome as momcares…</p>
<p>Anyways before this gets awkweird I shall reply to Shannon. Mine was initially about 600 and really good but my dean (aka college counselor) thought it might be a tad long for a “Why X?” essay and so I shortened it to 428 words by taking out some extravagant sentences. Then my main was cut from 800 to around 600 (1 page single spaced). God I hope my teachers wrote awesome recs (signed a thingy saying I hadn’t read them. For some reason this was important to my school, can someone explain?) and then my dean was an NU graduate so she hopefully helped a ton.</p>
<p><em>stresses more</em></p>
<p>okay this makes me feel better! And I think that is important to your school, because it shows that you trust your teachers. At my school it’s tradition for teachers to give their students their LORs at graduation</p>
<p>Oh my god… the stress of NU decisions + other personal stuff = not even having started homework yet.-_- looks like a long night is ahead…</p>
<p>I feel the exact same way guys…looking at pictures on facebook of some older friends who go there and its really sad to think that may not happen. To make it worse I was looking at the columbia thread and somebody said “columbia was my dream school, i guess it was just a dream” 
my stomach is turning thinking in some odd hours we will have our decsions (hopefully). Either way you guys i’m sure will end up at amazing schools regardless of the link in the email. Good luck to all and know it will work out!!</p>
<p>I know I am getting rejected but AGHHH there is still the smallest chance! Im like shaking JUST A FEW MORE HOURS…</p>
<p>Haven’t eaten today haha I’m too nervous. actually, I did have a muffin.</p>
<p>^ Haha I have the opposite problem. I wish I was like that! MUST STOP stress eating giant rainbow M&M cookies. 
Turning off the email notifications on my phone tonight. Need to be in the right frame of mind when I find out. I think I see a few long walks/herbal teas/crying jags in my future…but fingers crossed!!</p>
<p>OMG this is killing me. I won’t be home til’ 7PM and I REFUSE to check my email before then. I might check CC to know whether they have been released but nothing else.(:</p>
<p>I want to be accepted so much… totally bored by other applications!!!</p>