Confused about NU competition?

gd016
Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:50:45 +0000

Don’t be too quick to judge, not all good essays are written over a long period of time. In my case, I remember working on my main essay for almost a month over the summer of my senior year only to start all over a couple days before my applications were due. Spending days over an essay can make the writing very contrived as opposed to genuine and spontaneous. Such was the case for me.

At any rate, unless you were there to review his application as a whole, it’s hard to make the judgement that your friend didn’t have an ‘it-factor’ that adcoms seek in an applicant. I can confidently say every student who gets into a university of NU’s caliber has something adcoms want from their students, whether or not it’s something that objectively shows (ie. figures, accomplishments).