<p>jw is the css profile part of admission decision?
why do they require the deadline before the admission decision date?</p>
<p>@tstoim - I got that financial aid book even before my application was “complete and under review,” so I don’t think it’s significant in terms of a possible decision, aha. If only…</p>
<p>Prospective Pub Pol/ LOC major here. I am growing absolutely restless! Does anyone know if NU publishes school by school acceptance rates? Are chances significantly lower because I’m applying to SESP instead of Weinberg? (and just to chime in on titles- my college counselor used to work in admissions for a top 15- national university. She said titles are completely optional and that they really don’t affect how your essay is received 
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<p>@fadedviolinist</p>
<p>NU is need-blind, so the CSS Profile is not a part of their admission decision. However, they require it for ED applicants by Dec. 1st so they can assemble financial aid packages for accepted ED students as soon as possible. This way, accepted students who applied for financial aid can make sure that NU will be financially feasible and accept their package, or work something out with admissions if there are some extreme, unaccounted for circumstances. Financial aid decisions come out a few days after admissions decisions (if you are accepted, that is).</p>
<p>@midwesthopeful,
Just curious, did you apply as a Social Policy or LOC major? Since you can only mark one of your application. And I might be mistaken, but I feel like I once read that you can only do one of the four concentrations within SESP. Like you can double major with something within another undergraduate college, but no two concentrations within SESP (ie: Soc.Pol/LOC). Can anyone confirm or refute this?</p>
<p>And NU doesn’t publish those statistics /: Judging from this forum, I feel like SESP is going to be a very competitive appliction pool (given the handful of people on this forum alone who have applied to SESP, and the fact that they will accept only a handful of people). I don’t intend to discourage you in any way. I’m extremely nervous too /:</p>
<p>When I asked there, they said that it tends to be pretty equivalent. Although SESP is small, it grows considerably between Frosh and Senior Years. I think because Northwesterns schools are so fluid, they want a strong group of undergraduates, not a regimented number for each school. I think I want to trust them on this more than i do a lot of schools</p>
<p>I applied PubPol, but stated my interests in both programs. I have been heavily involved in gov/ policy clubs in high school, and was abroad my junior year in spain during the crisis in part studying political science. I stressed this in my application- I know what i want to do.</p>
<p>SESP is not necessarily more competitive. Yes, it’s the smallest, but no one has ever heard of it.</p>
<p>has anyone else on here done an alumni interview? I’m assuming the answer is yes but how’d they go?</p>
<p>D had an alumni interview last year. They just met at a local coffee shop and D said the woman was really friendly, helpful and encouraging! I’d suggest calling ASAP to get on the list to schedule an interview, as they filled up quickly last year.</p>
<p>oh I already had mine and it went really well! I just wanted to hear about any other experiences :)</p>
<p>I should have known that as an NU ED applicant you would be on top of getting your interview scheduled! ;-D </p>
<p>I’m so glad yours went really well, and hope your alum is super persuasive and influential!</p>
<p>I had an awsome interview too, we just talked about life for an hour haha. I’m not sure how much influence the interviews have, but we’ll see in december I guess</p>
<p>I got into my backup school today (UT), so I can breathe a little bit :D</p>
<p>@ Life2dmax Which UT?</p>
<p>University of Texas, McCombs business school</p>
<p>aw congratulations! I’m expecting to hear from Wisconsin at Madison this week</p>
<p>ED applicants~
As my DD graduated in DEC 2010, I can vouch for it’s graduates securing great jobs/careers upon graduation.
In case you missed this article from The Daily Northwestern:
<a href=“http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/mobile/campus/northwestern-s-reputation-caused-spike-in-early-decision-applicants-officials-say-1.2670216[/url]”>http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/mobile/campus/northwestern-s-reputation-caused-spike-in-early-decision-applicants-officials-say-1.2670216</a></p>
<p>@ InsertJokeHere</p>
<p>Thank you for your response!</p>
<p>@midwesthopeful, I met with an academic adviser in the Comm school this weekend, and he told me that the only say that individual schools have in the admission process is giving Admissions a number of students that they can/would like to accept. So I guess there is kind of a regimented number of students per school, but they still look at each student in the context of the school they’re applying to.</p>
<p>So based on that statement your competing against people applying to the same school as you, but not at all against people applying to a different school?</p>
<p>We definitely were told that was true for Theatre. The head of Comm told us that it’s ironic that some people consider Theatre majors to be academically “lesser”, when in fact often the stats are higher for Theatre majors because there are so few slots available.</p>