WCAS to McCormick

StrikeX2 · 07-03-2008, 07:43 PM

I am aware that you may request to be transferred after school starts right?
For those of you who've done in the past years, what did you guys do about the placement exams for McCormick?

dfleish · 07-04-2008, 12:37 AM

You can probably request to do it over the summer... maybe not for every school, but I transferred into SESP from WCAS the summer before my freshman year.

oddsmaker90 · 07-09-2008, 09:16 PM

I'm an incoming freshman, and I internally transferred from WCAS to McCormick a couple months ago. It's very simple. Just email Northwestern and tell them why you want to internally transfer. They reply within weeks so you would have time to take the McCormick placement exams.

StrikeX2 · 07-10-2008, 12:35 AM

thanks for the up oddsmaker90.

which email address did you use?

dfleish · 07-10-2008, 01:49 AM

You should probably get used to using your new u.northwestern email now

And I find it's generally best to always use that when contacting NU for any reason.

arbiter213 · 07-10-2008, 02:12 AM

To add onto that- I recommend you set up forwarding from all your old email acounts into your u-mail acount. Since you can keep it forever, and its an excellent gmail acount, it's got everything you need, and makes most of your correspondence more official anyway.

StrikeX2 · 07-10-2008, 11:43 AM

sorry i meant,

which email address of northwestern did you email to. (if tat makes sense)

dfleish · 07-10-2008, 01:58 PM

Ohh...that question makes much more sense, haha.

oddsmaker90 · 07-11-2008, 02:25 PM

I emailed: ug-admission@northwestern.edu and addressed it to Mr. Christopher Watson.

StrikeX2 · 07-16-2008, 05:44 PM

what sort of reasoning do they accept?

I'm in WCAS for econ right now but i was thinking of Mccormick for comp sci or EE.

Is tat a legit reason?

oddsmaker90 · 07-16-2008, 05:59 PM

Yeah I was in WCAS for Econ before but internally transfered for Industrial Engineering. I just told them that my interests changed, and I discovered that I would like to major in IE or some bs like that.

arbiter213 · 07-16-2008, 06:39 PM

You should note you can study Comp Sci in WCAS too.

aquamarinee · 07-17-2008, 12:51 AM

Just tell them that you want a more technical background than you would receive in WCAS. I actually did the opposite of what you're doing and transferred from EECS to Econ.