@College123321123 when you calculate 5% do you mean for the RD round only or including the ED round?
@throwaway0324 well so many times college changes their position from year over year. I will share our experience with you from 2 years back. UMich had accepted 10 students from my S high school, prior 5 years combined 0, go figure that out.
It seems like you are going for CS and you already have CMU and UIUC, far better options, who knows what happens on Ivy day. Don’t loose hope and let irrelevant thoughts drive your passion.
irrespective of ED or RD, 5% is unrealistic based on historical data.
5% is probably accurate for the RD round.
DD accepted, 1550/35, 4.0/4.7, 780 Math II, 800 Chem, 7 APs so far, all 5s, strong, diverse ECs, ok recs. Not top choice so not sure if will attend.
If you look purely at a 2000-people freshman class divided by 40000 total applicants, you get 5%. But in reality, Northwestern’s yield cannot be 100% (ED is close), so they must accept more than 2000 applicants. I would not be surprised if their RD acceptance rate is somewhere around 5%, considering NU fills about half their class in early decision.
RD Denied, 1500 SAT 790 Math/ 710 English, 3.92/ 4.28 GPA, 790 Math 2, 800 World History, 750 US History, 9 APs didn’t send scores, decent to good EC’s, but okay essays. I hope I help someone next year! Good luck!
I agree that 5% is very likely for the RD round because ED was likely much higher…probably in the 15-25% range, I’m guessing.
To those of you that got in RD, congrats! That is quite an accomplishment!!
Accepted!
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Historically, 1/2 of class comes through ED, hence higher acceptance rate. Last year it was ~1000 from ~4400, ~22% ED acceptance rate. As RD is nonbinding, it is fair to assume that more than 1000 offered admission from RD pool of ~41K for remaining 1000 seats.
Rejected - Mechanical Engineering
3.99 UW GPA/4.75 W GPA
8 AP classes total (5’s on all three I took last year)
800 Math II, 800 Physics, 760 US History
1580 SAT, 36 ACT (neither superscored)
EC’s:
- Student Body President
- Founder and President of physics tutoring club
- Project Intern at San Francisco mechanical contracting company
- Executive Editor of school newspaper
- President of various other clubs: Speech & Debate, Trivia, Block Society
- rowed crew all four years, ran cross country last two years
- winner of various school and regional leadership/science awards
WHITE MALE
Hyped.
@PPofEngrDr im actually going for engineering, UIUC was the only school i applied to for CS, because i wasn’t sure what i wanted to do yet
@mchwildcat yes, my girl is having same problem. Tell us if you figure it out?
@PPofEngrDr , at this point, I’m really glad a kid like that won’t be at Northwestern!
@throwaway0324 first of all, admissions is holistic and not solely focused on stats. Second, I am a black woman, and got in w a 4.4 GPA, 35 ACT, and 780 Subject Tests, not really good to generalize.
@biearbe , does your full ride include merit, or is it purely a financial aid award?
Accepted!!
-I-Kiribati Male
-3.91 Weighted/ 3.7 UW
-1360 SAT
-Math I - 560, Latin - 800
-I took 3 AP classes–Lang, Spanish, Calc–and I didn’t submit my scores because they were low (Two 2’s and a 3)
-Computer Science/Applied Math major
-EC: I started a club called “Pacific Islanders for gun control” and we held many fundraisers for our cause (total amount of money in the triple digits). I was also president of my school’s Rotary Club. Captain of school’s shot put and quidditch teams, and Junior Varsity quiz bowl and track.
-Essays: My common app essay was a 10/10 because I re-read it and editted a ton of times. It was about my dad’s Carpentry business and how discrimination effected his time working their. I wrote my Why Northwestern mainly about how Lake Michigan reminded me of the Pacific Islands. I got my teacher wrec from my sophomore year Algebra I teacher.
Rejected:
-ED Columbia
Waitlisted:
-UChicago
Accepted:
-ED UPenn
-Johns Hopkins
-UMich Flint
-Wayne State
You probably need to get off here and go have your pity party before you continue with this race thing.
Accepted!!!
Asian Indian Female
35 ACT Superscore 4.64 W GPA
Lots of leadership in extracurriculars
Non-profit founder
Rejected from Case Western
Waitlisted by UNC Chapel Hill
Waiting: Princeton, Northeastern, Vanderbilt, NYU
Where can you find admission statistics from this round?