<p>Hi guys,
I was hoping someone (preferably in admissions) might be able to help me answer this question. On the NU supplement, there is an optional Research Statement, described as:
If you have done any research or independent study outside of school, please include an abstract or summary of your work.
I want to include an explanation of the 2 international community service projects that I have done and what I have learned from them, but I don't know if the admissions office would be unhappy with that because it's not technically research.
Can anyone help? I would write them an email, but I feel like if the response is a no I would rather hear it here than in an awkward response email.
Thanks!!</p>
<p>Send it from an email that isn’t traceable to your name or profile.</p>
<p>I’m not looking for a way around contacting them, I was just hoping to get a consensus on the acceptability of submitting a community service report instead of research before I ask the University itself.</p>
<p>Ask the university.</p>
<p>Why would a consensus from a bunch of anonymous online forum-goers constitute any validity?</p>
<p>I’m not trying to be difficult, but there’s no point in asking us if whatever an NU employee says supersedes whatever the consensus is here.</p>
<p>^ agreedddd</p>
<p>Contact Northwestern admissions office directly and it will increase your chances of getting in. Northwestern takes applicant interest into account during admissions, according to the rep that visited my high school. Anytime you fill out an info card at a visit or college fair (don’t just do it once, do it everytime) it will go into your admissions file for how much contact you’ve had with the school. Same goes for calling, emailing and visiting the school. They track how much contact you’ve had with them, the more the better.</p>