muzicgirl89

Can anyone tell me about the Northwestern School of education. Can barely find anything on it, but i really liked it when I visited. I'm also hoping it might have SLIGHTLY better chances of admission, altho the school's still a reach for me.

Hope I'm posting in the right place by the way.

bver100

http://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/
thats the site for School of Education and Social Policy. People tell me that its academics are less rigorous than WCAS or MEAS, but i dont know anything about its admissions

and no, you should probably be posting in the main forum.

sanjenferrer

Well, the SAT average for the Class of 2011 was pretty much the same as WCAS if not slightly higher? I'm in both WCAS and SESP (anthropology + human development) and have not seen much of a difference in the difficulty of classes. In fact, I have only one A- so far (all other As), and it happens to be in a SESP class (all classes I've taken are 300-level). From my experience, classes in WCAS and SESP require significant amounts of reading and writing, but the SESP classes I've taken also require projects and fieldwork (which are huge time commitments) due to the emphasis on applying theories to the real world.

Purposeful1

i had heard somewhere that SESP only takes something like 30-some freshmen each year--the majority of the people who are in SESP transfer into it...