***Official Northwestern ED 2016 Results Thread***

yf1993
Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:16:00 +0000

Decision: Accepted to WCAS

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): 2220 not superscored (770m, 700cr, 750g)
[] ACT: 34 (34 math, 34 reading, 33 grammar, 33 science)
[] SAT II: 780 math II, 800 chinese, 710 us history
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.78
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): we don’t rank
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5’s on all: psych, us history, micro/macro, chinese
[] IB (place score in parenthesis): predicted 7’s: mandarin b hl, film hl
[] Senior Year Course Load: ap lang, ap calc ab, ib film hl, ib mandarin b hl
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): high honor roll[/li][/ul]

Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): film club (co-president), national art honors society, the other clubs that everyone else does.
[] Job/Work Experience: tutored local child english, produced documentary film for another school.
[] Volunteer/Community service: not a lot: habitat spring break trip and other minor things.
[] Summer Activities: english tutor, interned at a microchip company, lounge around.
[] Essays: very strong
[] Teacher Recommendation: my film teacher wrote a specific rec just for nu, i assume the other one is good as well.
[] Counselor Rec: i’m guessing its good. i bothered/talked to him a lot about college stuff.
[] Additional Rec: nope.
[li] Interview: nope.[/li][/ul]

Other

[ul][] State (if domestic applicant):
[] Country (if international applicant): china
[] School Type: private
[] Ethnicity: asian
[] Gender: female
[]Income Bracket: midrange
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): not really[/ul] [/li]
Reflection

[ul][] Strengths: definitely my writing (supplements and especially common app), i also submitted film supplement, in the ‘additional comments’ section of common app, without applying to communications school. i have a lot of passion for film and i think it really came through. i also had an upward trend in grades.
[] Weaknesses: very little extracurriculars, only took two aps each year and they were the easier aps.
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: definitely my essay and my writing in general, also my passion for film that came through the application as well as the film supplement i sent them.
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: only applied to UCs and got into my safety.[/ul]

General Comments: I was under the impression that decisions are not till next week, so i was completely surprised to even find the email, let alone the fact that i got in. I actually got up to check my email for my safety school’s decision, but found NU instead.