** Official Northwestern Class of 2021 Discussion Thread **

@Iniesta15 Ya why not

Rejected after getting deferred ED. UChicago deferred me & rejected me just now too, haha. Sheesh, well it’s been a long & stressful ride.
Congratulations to everyone who got in~ c:

Wait listed curious as to what other peoples emails said, did we all get the same one?

rejected

Rejected. :confused:

Three rejections in one day. Great

Accepted! Wow this is so surreal!

@lindsayHarvard Not from my experience at our alma maters. Both my kids, who have great stats, got deferred from Uchicago as triple legacies. And I interview for the school. I think it might mean more at Ivies, but I don’t believe it does much at Northwestern or Uchicago unless you give a lot of money.

My girlfriend, who works at UC, says all it does is guarantee a second look, but doesn’t at all influence decisions.

It’s okay. I have one at Duke and my son got into WashU. He’s not in pain:)

When do you hear about aid?

I haven’t done it yet, but my portal said your aid is available after you activate your NetID. @beaglemom

two rejections so far today. Haven’t cried for anything recently but Northwestern being one of my top, top choices… I had to :frowning:

Rejected, again.

Today so far:

Rejected from: Northwestern, JHU, Bowdoin
Accepted from: Colby

ACT 34/35S
SAT 1550
GPA 3.83
Special ECs, good essays

Same, rejected.

Rejected, oh well. The Lord has plans for all of us. A rejection just helps us narrow down choices.

Doesn’t make it hurt any less, man.

Congrats to all who got in. I was rejected. To put things in perspective for everyone … I’m estimating the RD acceptance rate was around 5% or less. That is a crapshoot … truly. Northwestern had 3737 ED applications and accepted 972 … 26% ED acceptance rate. Northwestern had more than 33,000 RD applicants. The total class size is about 1925, so more than half was filled ED. Assuming Northwestern’s historical yield of around 53% on RD, it means around 1800 were admitted RD … that’s less than a 5% RD acceptance rate.

Message to next year’s applicants: If you really want to go to Northwestern, apply ED.

Rejected, one of 3 today. But it is okay! I still have great options.

Rejected; Keep your heads up everyone and congratulations to those accepted you truly deserve it and I hope you prosper at NU

Waitlisted at NU and UChicago! Not bad imo.
GPA: 4.6
Rank:3/458
SAT: 1400
EC’s: too many lol
Congrats to all who were admitted!

Rejected, but accepted at Bowdoin and Hopkins, so I’m not sweating it!