<p>In the Academic interests part, they specifically ask about intercollegiate debate. I was curious why.</p>
<p>NU has had a very good debate team over the last few years, but you have to be in the school of communication to be on it. Hope this helps</p>
<p>"but you have to be in the school of communication to be on it"</p>
<p>This is not true....</p>
<p>"NU has had a very good debate team over the last few years, but you have to be in the school of communication to be on it."</p>
<p>They've been good not just the last few years but even long before that. Northwestern is the winningest team in the nation with Harvard/Dartmouth tie for second.</p>
<p>You don't have to be in the school of communication to be on the debate team. Geoff Garen, who led NU to 2003 championship, was a english/comp sci major.</p>
<p>Well this is certainly very good news. I love debate and speaking contests but I was sure I read somewhere that only students in the School of Comm. could participate. Thanks for the good news!</p>
<p>You must have misread. :) No one would adopt such self-destructing and dumb policy.</p>
<p>Check the debate alumni news:</p>
<p>Jody Terry (WCAS96), Jonathan Wells (WCAS97), Leslie Mueller (WCAS99) all graduated from WCAS (Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences)</p>
<p>yeah, northwestern has traditionally accepted a whole bunch of the best high school policy debaters. i think that checking the box, and then having debate as a big part of your application can help you a bit.</p>
<p>what if i'm not on the debate team, but am interested. I'm on the mock trial team in high school...</p>
<p>i'm on the debate team and i'm pretty sure i want to continue it in college, but you never know what might come up. the part on the app isn't binding is it?</p>