There is nothing I can say except Northwestern has been my dream school since I was four years old. I ED’d last year, and here’s round two. I just hope and pray that it works out. I feel immense anxiety with every passing day.
Heyo good luck to anyone applying, hope we’re all lucky enough to find ourselves in Evanston next fall
Hi - does anyone know if this question from Common App is required for NU - Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences.
Currently applying as a junior
GPA - 3.576 ( mainly due to the first semester, I was in the hospital in and out and had major stress)
SAT - waiting for scores hopefully 1400 cause Idk march sat was atrocious.
ECs - electronic music, self-taught piano compositions, self-taught guitar, tabla drums, all for over 7 - 9 years. BMI, photography for the last few years.
honors - National society of collegiate scholars, honors scholars program, deans list for 2 consecutive years.
LORs - very strong I have a professor whose class I worked very hard in, which she knows. I got a 43 on one of the tests genuinely because I had trouble with the curriculum, and so I worked hard to get every other section of the grade near perfect and ended up with an A- (couldn’t do anything about it).
essays - talked about my OCD and how it messed with my academic history and how I overcame it, I talked about why I want northwestern and what I plan to do to contribute to them.
Do you guys know if Northwestern needs the why transfer essay? Because it shows the freshman college app prompts in the common app.
@TheEpic2401Man no, it’s the same essay as high school common app
Hey all, I’m applying to NU Econ as a junior year transfer. I am coming from a university in the USNews T50, but my school does not have a strong network in the field I want to work in.
Stats:
Ethnicity/Gender: African American Male, First Generation
GPA: 4.0
SAT: 1450
ACT: 35
Credits Completed: 47, 15 in progress
EC’s:
-President of two clubs, one is a social impact club and the other is an investment fund where I am the Chief Investment Officer, promoted after 2 semesters of success in my role as PM
-Mentor at my former high school
Work Exp:
-Summer internship at a bulge bracket bank in private wealth management last summer
-Summer analyst at a bulge bracket bank in investment banking this summer (GS/MS/JPM)
-Part time SDE intern for a startup that has gotten quite a bit of success and has been featured on a lot of popular tech articles this year (techcrunch, venturebeat, google ventures, etc)
Letters of Rec:
-Econ professor
-Former boss,
-Accounting prof
I’m applying to UVA McIntire, Georgetown McDonough, NYU Stern, Princeton, Duke, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell AEM, and Berkeley Haas!
does anyone know if/when we get a specific portal for NU?
@northwestern30 I got mine on 3/15. I’m assuming you received yours by now…
Check your email for a confirmation of your application to Northwestern. In the email, it should have a link to your application portal.
Does anyone’s portal show the materials are all received? I submitted my high school and college transcript a month ago, but they are still shown as “awaiting” on the portal.
Same here.
Waiting patiently until we get the notification… So anxious!
anyone know if nu admissions will be looking at our applications this week because it’s spring break?
@qwertyu123 It also says “awaiting” for mine even though I sent all relevant materials back in January. I emailed admissions about it about a week ago, and this was their response:
"Thank you for contacting our office. We are still processing large quantities of application materials. Your applicant status portal will update when materials are processed and you will receive e-mail notification from our office once your application is complete. Please be aware that certain materials require manual processing.
We will also notify you if your application is missing any materials and give you time to submit the required documents. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions"
I received a confirmation on March 21 through my email. It says:
We are pleased to inform you your Northwestern application is now complete. When an admission decision becomes available (mid-December for Early Decision; late-March for Regular Decision; rolling notification after March 15 deadline for Transfer), we’ll write to you at this address with instructions for viewing your online decision letter in the Applicant Status Portal.
There rest of the email was saying how to log into the portal. I submitted most of my documents at the begining of March. I know that my school sent out my college report on March 15 through mail. My application was submitted 3-4 days before deadline. I don’t know if that’s important, maybe someone will find these information helpful.
@koreanamericano I called the admission office last week too. They told me the same thing that they are still processing the materials and if anything is missing they will notify us via email. We should be fine then. When did you submit your application?
BTW, is anyone going to submit the midterm report?
where would we submit the midterm report to?
@qwertyu123: I submitted my Midterm Report.