<p>Is it harder to get in Northwestern as a communications major, or in the college of Arts and Sciences as an English major?</p>
<p>theater (in comm) is hard… only 100 spots (50M/50W)</p>
<p>Weinberg is prob easier for you, unless you have a load of Theater/ whatever comm intended major ECs.</p>
<p>Weinberg has the lowest admission percentage. Communications major (as in Communications Studies in the school of comm) is definitely easier to get in to.</p>
<p>^^^Is that true? I would think WCAS would be one of the easiest if not the easiest school to get into.</p>
<p>Why? The VAST majority of students apply to the CAS, thus allowing them to drive up the scores and grades, making it more selective, wheras schools like Medill, Theater, Music, and McCormick all have specific non-academic criteria they’re looking for (though McCormick is nearly as hard as Weinberg, and mostly less selective only because of the lower number of applicants). SESP and Communications have the lowest academic requirements in general anyway, not to mention BY FAR the least applicants and no hard caps on admissions (to my knowledge).</p>
<p>It’s hard to answer because the admissions processes are different, but not easier or harder.</p>
<p>WCAS is allegedly the numbers whore. I’d prefer to term it as the repository for students who are high-achieving without a fixed pre-professional (law notwithstanding) track.</p>
<p>Medill is for the world’s best journalists. Its SAT scores are actually lower than WCAS, which is probably because of subpar Math numbers.</p>
<p>Engineering is burdened by low Reading scores, but still top-notch.</p>
<p>Music speaks for itself.</p>
<p>Comm is a hybrid between the Theater spots (where SATs are practically irrelevant) and a repository for athletes.</p>
<p>For those who have multiple interests, I think Comm Studies might be the easiest, but the administration will know what you’re doing. There are few people who actually have an intense interest in Communications Studies. So barring that, its a coinflip between Comm and WCAS.</p>
<p>Is it true that “SATs are practically irrelevant” for theatre majors? Because there’s no audition, I thought that Northwestern placed heavy emphasis on having academically up to par arts students–i. e. the same criteria for admissions as, say, Weinberg students.</p>
<p>At least, I was hoping so…</p>
<p>Large emphasis, but heavily discounted compared to Weinberg. If you could get into weinberg already but apply to theater you have decent odds.</p>
<p>I selected my major as Communication Studies too because every career I’ve ever wanted as falled under that umbrella. I’m hoping I won’t be seen as whatever Cerebral was referring to…</p>
<p>I would take issue to the comment that SAT scores are basically irrelevant for theater majors. True, they do look at OTHER things in ADDITION to the normal scores/grades, but every one of my D’s fellow theater classmates probably deserved to get into Northwestern based on their scores and grades. In the theater community, NU is known as the place with “smart actors” go. Its just that other factors are ALSO taken into consideration and can counterbalance some things, whereas they may not be able to in Weinberg.</p>
<p>It is true that WCAS gets the most applicants, but it also has the most spots; it makes up 50% of the school. It’s all relative. Based on previous results threads, I would say McCormick probably has the highest standards, and theatre is nearly impossible to get in because even though less people apply to WCAS than theater, theatre is capped at such a low number (100) that the admission percentage is really low. Again, it’s all relative.</p>
<p>Statistically, you’d be wrong. WCAS has the highest standards.</p>