SAT 2400, GPA 4.0, Weighted GPA 4.4 Rejected.
Accepted to UCB, UCSD, UCD, Ross, Williams early write.
First, it’s NU please. Not NW. Second, I guess I’m lucky my unhooked Asian daughter was accepted in the RD round. Sounds from the thread that she had a lot going against her. Who knew?
@blackgirlmagic @denydenzig You guys are both right. It’s not black or white.
Accepted! bio major
34 ACT
Unweighted gpa 3.86
Accepted into uci ucsd ucdavis and purdue
Rejected from ucla
forgot to mention that i was also accepted to ucla; what is going on with northwestern?
Sorry if this has already been answered–when will financial aid decisions be coming in?
@easygoing1234 I am in the exact same boat as you, almost exact stats and also rejected northwestern and accepted ucla, along with all the ucs, including regents at 5 of the 7 I applied. I don’t know if northwestern is playing a yield game, filled out their class with similar people to us, etc., but definitely don’t feel you are alone in this! I definitely don’t feel entitled to any acceptance, but this may also be because northwestern was far from any of my top choices so I didn’t take the rejection hard at all.
Does anyone know when Wildcat Day is? Or how to sign up?
Not sure, but here is some info:
http://www.northwestern.edu/orientation/incoming-students/important-dates/index.html
The facebook link can lead you to more specific info. I know engineering has intro days next month on April 10 and 17.
I got accepted into northwestern, but i still havent received an email. Is anyone else having this issue?
Regarding financial aid, I think before next Tuesday, hopefully sooner. If anyone gets word on their fin aid package, please post that you were notified. Tnx.
“what is going on with northwestern?” It’s just highly competitive, roughly the same as Cornell. An earlier poster (if not trolling) said he was accepted to Stanford and Caltech, but rejected (or at least wait-listed) at Northwestern. Probably 90% of applicants could handle the curriculum, but there’s a lot of gray area with all “holistic” application approaches. All top schools go for “balance” and “excellence”; and often “balance” decisions leave you scratching your head.
about the “what is going on with northwestern” imo i do think they genuinely look at more than stats (legacy gives you a HUGE leg up), i had an overall lower gpa and likely a lower course load than some of you rejected (3.88 unweighted, 35 ACT) but got into medill.(i’m still really shocked)
Northwestern is a bit more selective than Cornell nowadays - about the same as Duke and Dartmouth. Northwestern is more selective than all the schools easygoing got into so far, so it doesn’t really tell much.
@easygoing1234 Me too, accepted into UCLA and Wash U but rejected at Northwestern. It’s competitive as hell now, I guess
@gmoneyy Everything says completed now for me!
I was in the FA office at NU yesterday, and they stated packages would be going out in the mail ‘early next week’. I believe that the same FA information is available on the portal once the package is sent out, but cannot say with certainty.
Just like all other extremely good schools, NU has thousands of extremely qualified applicants apply. While it’s nice to have legacy/minorities, schools like NU don’t lower their standards to accept these students. They still want high incoming GPAs and ACT/SAT averages. So no, legacy, “hooks” won’t play that large a role: you still have to be QUALIFIED to be accepted. Yes, you could be an extremely good applicant, but there’s just NOT ENOUGH SPACES TO ACCEPT ALL THE EXTREMELY QUALIFIED APPLICANTS. That’s it. Maybe you had extremely high scores but didn’t stand out & weren’t as unique as another candidate. It’s not a yield game, favoring legacies, minorities, etc. There’s simply just not enough room to accept all the qualified applicants.
Yes, lolololol1 is completely correct. Also, I agree with Boothie, NU is about as selective as Duke, etc nowadays.
Their combined ed and regular acceptance rate will be below 10% and their regular decision acceptance rate this year will be about 7% I believe (was about 8% last year). Their early decision rate has already dropped from 35% last year to 26% this year. More and more people are applying to NU so it becomes more selective. It’s a trend that is happening with most top universities, unfortunately. We can’t help it so rejoice if you got in, and for those who didn’t, NU didn’t have room and as much as you want to believe this: Your college has very little to do with your future success. YOU decide your future success. Good luck!
Although Northwestern is a selective school in general, I do feel that the current level of selectivity is slightly artificial or engineered because they take such a large amount of students during ED in order to maintain high yield that RD becomes incredibly selective. At my school, a large percentage of students get in ED, whereas only 1-2 get in RD. Many kids are rejected RD that had much, much stronger profiles than those of accepted ED students. Although this is common to other ED schools (that ED kids have slightly weaker stats), the disparity seems especially drastic for NU.