hashtagadrienne

HS stats:
- over 4.0 (weighted)
- took 10 AP exams (4's, 5's)
- 33 on ACT
- did a TON of volunteering
- national honor society, school honor society
- ap scholar, ap scholar with distinction
- TECHNICALLY a summa cum laude but my school screwed it up
- national merit commended student

college stats:
- highly ranked christian college
- 3.7 GPA
- more volunteering

application:
- honestly, the only thing i remember is my school messing up sending my transcript at least 3 times
- positive: the prof who wrote my req's is one i've had for all 4 semesters and she knows me really well
- negative: my college gpa isn't as great as i would've liked

also my brother is officially enrolled in NU as a freshman. don't know if that helped or didn't.

@tummy3250 i'm with you!

bobbyslice

accepted in mccormick!!!

eriqp123

Another successful applicant to McCormick.... Congrats, but I am now becoming seriously concerned....

CluelessBelle

I hope WCAS is as accepting as McCormick this year! Congrats bobbyslice! Mind sharing your stats?

mtoad527

I wonder if there have been any rejections along with all of these new acceptances...or if they are just saving all of their rejections to release on a later date...in which case, not having heard back yet would be extremely discouraging.

mtoad527

Also, I imagine that there are lots of McCormick acceptances because it is the school with the lowest retention rate...I have several friends studying engineering at Northwestern and from what they tell me, many students find after the first semester even that engineering is just not their thing. Or they get tired of incessantly receiving low grades after putting in hard work.

CluelessBelle

^
That's a good point. I really hope it's not that those of us still waitimg have been rejecyed bc that's really cruel

meaculpa

I just want them to reject me already.... I'm getting really sick of all this waiting.

An actual question, though: around what time of day did your emails come? I'm curious if like 3:30 means that it definitely won't come today or if they come all the way until 5 or whenever.

hashtagadrienne

2:08pm CT.

tummy3250

3:08pm est.

mimawbway

Rejected. WCAS. 10:15am on 21st June (yesterday, technically). Good luck to all of you who haven't heard back yet- I'm sending all that's left of my positive energy your way!

coloradogirl14

I imagine that those of us who haven't heard back are borderline applicants. If I were the admissions committee, I would put off the more difficult decisions (not out of procrastination, but more to see how many already accepted students actually enrolled). That way they don't over-enroll.

(By the way, this isn't meant to be a knock on any recent or upcoming acceptances. I think anyone who cares enough to be doing the research by reading this site clearly deserves to get in, and honestly, once you're in, who cares where you were in line? It's all about what you do when you attend.)

CluelessBelle

@coloradogirl14: I agree with everything you said! Those of us who are left may still have a chance, yay! Lol. Glad to see that NU isn't one of those schools that just looks for 4.0s, though.

@mimawbway: Wow, so sorry to hear that. Did you apply/get accepted into any other schools?

Calligraphy

Accepted as well to McCormick

1st Quarter: 3.78, 18 credits
2nd Quarter: 3.96, 19 credits
3rd Quarter: N/A, 20 credits
Overall GPA: 3.86

High School GPA: 3.0
APs:
Physics C Mech: 5
Physics C E&M: 4
Calculus BC: 5
Calculus (sub) AB: 5
Physics B: 3

SATs: 1740, 760 Math, 480 Reading, 500 Writing
Physics SAT: 700, Math 2 SAT: 690

Essay: Very good. Worked on it for 2 months and had it reviewed many times by students from Top 20 Universities. It was essentially about messing up in life until recently and I have taken the initiative to change myself and perspective towards academics, myself, and the world.
Supplement: Awesome

Recommendations: Good, Very Good

Extracurricular: Freshman Rep of a club, part of 10 other clubs, Reformed a Step Team into becoming like the one I was a part of in High School (although I am disbanding the name)

mtoad527

@Calligraphy: congratulations!! were you accepted today?