<p>Has NWU announced date(s) for admitted students to visit campus in April 2012?
What were visitation date(s) in 2011?</p>
<p>The abbreviation is never NWU. It’s not North Western University. It’s NU.</p>
<p>I highly recommend the NU admitted students’ days for both students and parents. Not sure when they are scheduled this year; three years ago, in mid-April. Email admissions office for dates. </p>
<p>When my son (now a junior at NU) and I attended three years ago, there were some separate sessions for parents which were very helpful, on health services, academic and career resources, etc. Also some joint parent/student sessions such as an opening overview, luncheon, a big activities fair and a great music/improv show.</p>
<p>Parents were left to go to dinner by themselves while current NU students took “prospies” for dinner at the dorms. I asked another mom I saw wandering around to go eat with me. My son and her daughter did not meet that day…but they met two years later at NU Dance Marathon, and have been BF/GF ever since!</p>
<p>Why Not NWU?</p>
<p>In fact, the old website for NWU (sorry, Northwestern, I couldn’t resist:) ) ant the emails were nwu.edu.</p>
<p>It was only after a Branding campaign in the early 2000’s that NWU (here we go again) changed to northwestern.edu.</p>
<p>And, if you go to Google and type NWU, the first website that comes up is [Home</a> : Northwestern University](<a href=“http://www.northwestern.edu%5DHome”>http://www.northwestern.edu).</p>
<p>Like MidwestMom17 my daughter is currently a junior and her year there were 3 different Admitted Students’ days throughout April. I remember because we caught the very last one! I’m sure if you look hard enough and creatively enough on the website you will find it but you can also call and ask.</p>
<p>I did just go to google and typed in nwu, and the first website that comes up is, actually, nebraska wesleyan university.</p>
<p>Funny. For me it is still northwestern.com showing up. I guess is one of those “google relevance” things.</p>
<p>Anyway, I found this page at the northwestern.edu website:
[The</a> New “northwestern.edu” Internet Domain](<a href=“http://www.tss.northwestern.edu/reference/northwestern-edu.html]The”>The New "northwestern.edu" Internet Domain)</p>
<p>One exerpt from that page states:</p>
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The New “northwestern.edu” Internet Domain</p>
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<p>On March 1, 2000, Northwestern University Information Technology (NUIT) will introduce a new domain for the University: “northwestern.edu”. In brief, the University is making this change to standardize its identity on the Internet. Over several years, this new domain will supercede the original “nwu.edu” Internet domain that has been in use at Northwestern since the 1980s. This web site describes the multi-stage plan for the introduction and migration, and answers many questions that have been posed to NUIT about this project. After reviewing this web site, if you have additional questions about this migration, please send mail to <a href=“mailto:it-feedback@northwestern.edu”>it-feedback@northwestern.edu</a>.
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<p>Sorry I got the abbreviation wrong. Does anyone know the admitted student visitation date(s) for NU?</p>
<p>Because we would have to make plane reservations from California, I went back and looked at last year’s calendar awhile ago and I think I figured they would be the second, third and fourth weekends of April. However, the bad news for us is when I emailed admissions to confirm those dates I was informed that ED acceptances are not really invited to go 
Apparently those weekends are supposed to be for luring the RD applicants into coming their way. They did say that sometimes they will allow/invite ED acceptances to the last weekend, and only if there is room. But, we just rearranged our plans so that my D can be there with a current NU friend on Dillo Day so she is perfectly happy with that (but I am sort of sad…).</p>
<p>I heard NU president Morton Schapiro speak last night, and he, like my son and almost everything else we hear and read, sticks with NU, not NWU. However, the new NU Law dean has a blog online in which he says he prefers NWU Law over NU Law. I assume “Morty” will straighten the law dean out.</p>