**Northwestern 2014 Transfer Applicant Thread**

KingofSweden
Sun, 08 Jun 2014 14:41:42 +0000

@jkim3265 While I do agree it’s unpleasant to wait, it makes sense that the admissions committee would wait to evaluate all applicants before submitting final decisions, even with rolling admissions. There’s a limited number of spots available, and NU wants to make sure that the absolute best applicants are the ones receiving those spots. It’s hard to predict the strength of the entire applicant pool if they’ve only evaluated say, 20 applicants so far.

For example, if they deemed an applicant unworthy of admission early on in the process and issued an immediate rejection, only to find out later after evaluating all candidates that maybe that early applicant should have been waitlisted (as a result of a poorer-than-expected applicant pool) it’ll be too late. I tend to disagree with rolling admissions in general, because an applicant deserves to be evaluated in comparison to the rest of the pool.

On the flip side, say the committee admits a student early on, only to find out that better applicants existed in the pool that perhaps deserved the spot more. An applicant shouldn’t deserve to get in because they submitted the application on February 1st and the later applicant submitted it on March 30th. I believe all applicants that submit their materials on time should be evaluated equally, and then after evaluating the entire pool, the committee should issue out acceptances, waiting list offers, and rejections.

Sorry to give such a long speech, but it’s helped me to be more patient with this entire arduous process. Best of luck to everyone!