<p>^^^ wow that's REALLY REALLY surprising</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted at School Of Communication</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I: 2390 (CR790/M800/W800)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 690, 800 (Lit/Math IIC)
[<em>] ACT: Did not Report
[</em>] GPA: 3.6 UW / 3.9 W
[<em>] Rank: DNR
[</em>] Other stats: 15+ Speech & Debate Awards (including State Finalist + District Championships multiple times), NHR, NFL w/ Distinction, Involved in Art (12+ Years), LGBT Activist (as orator/speechwriter), XC Runner with JV Letter, High positions in S&D for consecutive years, nothing else worth mentioning.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Thought it was pretty good.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Good.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good.
[</em>] Hook (if any): Homo?
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: CA
[</em>] School Type: Rigorous Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian (</em>sigh<em>)
[</em>] Gender: M
[<em>] Perceived Strengths/Weaknesses: Weak GPA
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: GPA
[/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Ow.</p>
<p>*Decision: * Accepted to McCormick School of Engineering</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I: 2170
[</em>] SAT IIs: 770 Math 2, 740 Physics, 680 Latin
[<em>] ACT: n/a
[</em>] GPA: 3.75
[<em>] Rank: n/a
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: My main one was good, the rest probably terrible.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: waived my right.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: waived my right.
[<em>] Hook (if any): nothing solid
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: UK
[<em>] School Type: private, American curriculum
[</em>] Ethnicity: Scandinavian
[<em>] Gender: male
[</em>] Perceived Strengths/Weaknesses: my ECs are good, but my numbers aren't the best
[li] Why you think you were accepted: not too sure. I guess someone liked my photography and my interest in robotics/computers (possible major is CS).[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
Though I'm still waiting for slightly better schools, I'm very happy to have been accepted to Northwestern and I congratulate everyone else!</p>
<p>How did I get in? That's a question.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted to Engineering</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT I: 710 M, 740 CR, 750 W superscore
SAT IIs: None
ACT: None
GPA: 3.94 UW
Rank: 3/397
Other stats:</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Essays: I wrote about Stephen Colbert and Zach Braff in my Why NW essay.
Teacher Recs: Good. My English teacher said she would write me a "glowing" recc.
Counselor Rec: She likes me so probably good.
Hook (if any): Stephen Colbert?!</p>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<p>State or Country: Texas
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Perceived Strengths/Weaknesses: 710 Math for engineering (no interview, visit, etc.)
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: I wrote good essays and had some good reccs.</p>
<p>Other Factors:</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: extremely happy, and even moreso surprised. Congrats to everyone</p>
<p>alta, i think my decision got mixed up with yours. well even if you got rejected here im sure youll get into some ivy?</p>
<p>You are far too kind jackie. I can't tell you how much I appreciate what you've said to make my day.</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected from SESP</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT I: 2030, 630 m 740 reading, 660 writing separate sitting
* SAT IIs: none sent
* ACT: awful
* GPA: 3.63 uw
* Rank: top 7%, 40/590 I think
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: Don't know, but the main essay got me into my other colleges. I felt it was good, maybe not great.
* Teacher Recs: Didn't see
* Counselor Rec: Didn't see
* Hook (if any): nope.
</code></pre>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country: IL, in Chicago suburbs
* School Type: public, moderate difficulty
* Ethnicity: Caucasian
* Gender: female
* Perceived Strengths/Weaknesses: GPA, ECs okay but clearly not enough for a really competitive school (Speech team, math tutoring job, little debate and some service work), o and I'm a horrible test-taker as you can see by the scores.
* Why you think you were rejected: the weaknesses.
</code></pre>
<p>Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
I'm not at all surprised and neither is anybody on this thread probably; I just thought it my duty to post a little info on SESP admissions since almost no one seems to apply there.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted to WCAS</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT I: 1500/1600 (M+V)
SAT IIs: 790 Math IIC 760 US History
ACT:
GPA: 3.71 UW, 3.96 W
Rank: top 30% (school doesn't rank) SUPER COMPETITIVE- High School 66th in nation
Other stats: Big upward trend
Subjective:
Essays: Super-duper
Teacher Recs: Great! I saw my econ teacher's rec. It was ballin
Counselor Rec: I think it was good (never saw it)
Hook (if any): Im a good singer? I dunno I was rejected by NU school of music (I really don't care, though) AIME qualifier? XC Captain? Maybe
Location/Person:
State or Country: CA
School Type: super competitive public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: M
Perceived Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths: Extracirriculars, SATs Weakness: GPA
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Yay! N00b UCLA though they were too good for me...heh</p>
<p>Before applying to US universities, I was rejected from all the universities I wanted to go in my native land.
As I read over the posts of those rejected. I wondered
If I were accepted then, would I be happy?
I don't think so. I probably would have been left unsatisfied with other problems coming up.
To those who were rejected: life still goes on.
yep, life still goes on.</p>
<p>so don't worry too much about getting rejected here. There will be a better place reserved for all of you.</p>
<p>
[quote]
For daughter: Waitlisted WCAS</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT II: 780 (Lit) 770 (Spanish) 740 (Biology)
ACT: 33/34
AP: Three, all 5's Psychology, World History, Biology
GPA: 5.4/5.0 weighted 4.0 unweighted
Rank: Top 2%</p>
<p>Common App Essay: Top notch, by all standards
Why NU: Thoughtful, specific, on target
Teacher recs: Didn't read, but best writers on high school staff, according to GC
Counselor rec: Didn't read
Hook: Music, legacy</p>
<p>Location: Chicago suburban</p>
<p>School type: Public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Strengths/Weaknesses: Not sure
Why this decision: Too many Caucasian females from Chicago suburbs</p>
<p>General comments: Not too surprised, but mom (involved NU alum) is not a bit happy!
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Legacy means little unless you give them $10,000,000?!</p>
<p>Legacy itself doesn't play a huge role in admission process nor the largess, but you need someone who graduated or is related to university you want
to get in.
Then through that person, you need to donate appropriate sum of money during your high school years. (20k~50k per year is right depending on Univ, if what I heard is correct)
By the time you apply, you notify to adcom that you are one of the donors.
Your application will be flagged and then be moved into less competitive and smaller pool.</p>
<p>Admission process is corrupted in a way =[</p>
<p>Accepted CAS!</p>
<p>Since this is the "official" thread...</p>
<p>Waitlisted (WCAS)</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I: 700v 760m 790w = 2250
[</em>] SAT IIs: 750 bio e, 790 us hist, 800 math 2c = 2340
[<em>] GPA: 3.9uw/4.2w
[</em>] Rank: 7 of 85
[<em>] Other stats: 4 APs (all 5's), 20 loser-college units (all A's except a C in upper-div. Virgil)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: hastily written (if you can even dignify it with the label "writing"), attempted to tailor relevant essays to NU but probably still too general
[<em>] Teacher Recs: acadec coach (knows me well, but insists on writing way too much--2 pp.!); econ/stats teacher I just met this year (econ is my field of interest... probably not specific or meaningful enough)
[</em>] Counselor Rec: don't know much about
[<em>] Hook (if any): '07 small school nat'l acadec champs? none really
[/ul]
Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: central CA
[<em>] School Type: small sort-of-not-really-magnet charter
[</em>] Ethnicity: white (undeclared)
[<em>] Gender: male
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: several applicants from relatively small school (yield concerns--this probably also contributed to the waitlisting of a classmate who got into Yale EA); downward trend in grades/upward in laziness (1B + 1C each of last 2 semesters); inattention to essays; submitted app on 1/1[/ul]</p>
<p>There's a slight chance I'll take a spot on the list depending on what happens at other places, but I don't think I want to drag out this process until 6/30 or later, esp. considering the low probability of eventual admission.</p>
<p>*Decision: ACCEPTED to Medill! *</p>
<p>SAT I: 2210, 1470
SAT IIs: 790, 730
ACT: 35
GPA: 4.0
Rank: 1
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female</p>
<p>Sooo excited! Congrats to all those accepted! If not, it was a tough admissions cycle</p>
<p>Decision: accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I: 800 CR 780 M 760 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 740 history 800 math iic 750 lit
[<em>] ACT
[</em>] GPA: 4.24 weighted
[<em>] Rank: oh god. i think it's 39 out of about 300 people now. bad i know
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: i stuck to the 1000-character limit. it was an okay essay i guess.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: submitted one rec; should have been good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: my counselor loves me ;)
[</em>] Hook (if any): i dance a lot, but i don't think medill cares about that
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: pa
[</em>] School Type: public
[<em>] Ethnicity: mostly white, part asian
[</em>] Gender: f
[<em>] Perceived Strengths/Weaknesses: i have pretty good extracurriculars, just not in the newspaper area. And my gpa sucks.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: i actually predicted a deny. but whatever. yay!
[/ul]*Other Factors: none really. *
*General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I waited till this morning to check, and the site was 23507204 x faster. *</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted to WCAS</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT I: 750M, 720CR, 730W
SAT IIs: 790 Math IIC, 740 Spanish, 670 US History
ACT:
GPA: 3.65 UW, 3.99 W
Rank: Doesn't rank but highly competitive private school that sends a lot to NU
Other stats: Nope
Subjective:
Essays: My why NU was good i think. it was so long ago.
Teacher Recs: One was good. Didn't see the other.
Counselor Rec: I think it was good (never saw it)
Hook (if any): See "Ethnicity"
Location/Person:
State or Country: TX
School Type: super competitive private
Ethnicity: AA/Black
Gender: M
Perceived Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths: SAT?
Weakness: Lack of AP's?
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: SWEET!</p>
<p>Congratulations to all of you who got in, fingers crossed for those on the waitlist, and condolences to those who were rejected -- but if you're fine enough to even be in the running for Northwestern, there's a great school out there that will be right for you!</p>