<p>@flysaex congrats! that’s great. when did you submit your app?</p>
<p>@mccubsfan REALLY. WHAT. #impatient</p>
<p>I think I finished the app maybe a week before May 1 but I didn’t get the “your application is complete” email until after the 1st. </p>
<p>Best of luck to all of you!!!</p>
<p>@flysaex Congrats! do you mind posting your stats? Hope to be there with you!</p>
<p>Ahh thank you!!! I hope so too. Here are some brief stats, with not too many identifiers:</p>
<p>Accepted into: Medill School of Journalism </p>
<p>HIGH SCHOOL
- In the top 5 public high schools in the nation
- GPA: uw ~3.7, w ~4.1; school didn’t rank
- SATs: 2320; over 700 on a couple SAT IIs
- 7 APs, most 5’s, couple 4’s
- extracurric: varsity dance team captain, yearbook editor, presidential awards for volunteer, nhs, coordinator for freshman orientation program, regional youth orchestra</p>
<p>COLLEGE
- Top 50 state institution
- GPA: 4.0, 35 credits total
- extracurric: layout & copy editor for ethnic-interest newspaper on campus, writer for a feature magazine on campus, residence hall council, part-time job doing media database research & some other extra, small stuff</p>
<p>Recommendations: Out of the water great. In fact, they’re probably what got me in/made me stand out; a Northwestern journalism professor wrote me a rec (he supervised my fellowship work over the winter at NU).The recommender from my school also really supported me throughout the process.</p>
<p>Essays: Very good. Not mind-blowingly awesome, but I put a lot of thought into it, didn’t take the traditional essay format route and got people to read it.</p>
<p>Hooks: Definitely the recommendations, and the fact that I could relay in my essays that NU was THE place I wanted to be, because I’ve been to NU multiple times, during journalism camps, internships, vacation, etc.</p>
<p>Negatives: Came from a school where EVERYone got stellar grades, and I didn’t have straight A’s or anything. Got rejected during the freshman round.</p>
<p>@flysaex</p>
<p>Congratulations!!! At least one of us got into Medill. You must be so happy and honestly looking at your stats you deserve it. Best of luck to you… and hopefulyl i´ll hear back soon too, even if it´s just a rejection.</p>
<p>Anyway, I´m really happy for you… just WOW!</p>
<p>Accepted into: Weinberg </p>
<p>HIGH SCHOOL
- Very competitive HS
- GPA: ~3.5, no rank
- ACT: 35
- 5 AP’s
- extracurric: a lot of leadership in music and nation-wide debate/activism, several medals in debate and speaking, science olympiad captain</p>
<p>COLLEGE
- Top 50 state school
- GPA: 3.4, ~70 credits (lots of other college work, lot of hard classes)
- extracurric: executive board on a pre-med club, more pre-med service clubs, a lot of random volunteering</p>
<p>Recommendations: Probably not super great, but probably pretty good. I had two recs sent in.</p>
<p>Essays: IMO they were good. I think NU knew that Northwestern is the only place I wanted to go to (my dad had communicated with NU for the past few years). I definitely made that evident in my essay by demonstrating extensive knowledge and interest in their pre-med. I conveyed what I would bring to campus, in particular, and showed how I would use NU to affect things I cared about.</p>
<p>Hooks: Probably the recs, the legacy (family went there and worked at a affiliated hospitals), the essays, and sheer luck</p>
<p>Negatives: GPA</p>
<p>I’m worried that, now that they have my final transcript, they might change their mind on me. I did better first semester, but even then my first semester grades weren’t good. First semester was a bad and second semester was worse. The classes I took from other colleges brought my average up. I talked about how my current school affected my academic performance. What’s the chance I’m rescinded? I have no idea why I was accepted earlier than most (last week) and don’t even know why I was accepted. What’s the chance I’m rescinded?</p>
<p>@flysaex Your stats are ridiculously amazing. there’s no question that you were accepted. I know this is the most trivial question, but around what time did you receive your email (chicago time)?</p>
<p>@inspirose I don’t think you’ll be rescinded. If there was any question of your acceptance, they wouldn’t have sent it as early. Congrats!! </p>
<p>For those who have been accepted, did the details include that you were accepted into a specific major, or just the school?</p>
<p>@YalieGirl thank you!! and don’t lose hope, you really never know with these things. I hope we can transfer together :)</p>
<p>@Inspirose I doubt they would rescind their decisions. They usually reserve that for extreme circumstances – for example, you went to jail or got caught cheating. You got in for a reason! </p>
<p>@shelberrto Thank you! I received my email at 3:38 p.m. CST(that’s the time zone for Chicago right?) Also, the email said what school you got into, but not major. Now, I guess it’d be sort of obvious what major I am since it’s Medill, but I don’t think you’d have to be accepted into a major, since theoretically you should be able to change that whenever according to your coursework.</p>
<p>@shelberrto and @flysaex
thanks for the response! i doubt it’d happen too, but it makes me not want to tell any of my friends that im transferring haha. i wonder if i could call any ask if they already re-reviewed me and are not changing their mind? lol</p>
<p>@shelberrto June 5th 3:11pm CST. And I agree with what flysaex said.</p>
<p>@flysaex wow you have very impressive stats. congrats!</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone who got accepted!! Just so you know, there is a Northwestern University Fall 2012 Transfer group on Facebook. If you are interested and can’t find it, message me and I will send you the link!</p>
<p>@creativedrafts I’m of course going to ask the most trivial question again, but how many people are in that group already? I know i’m overanalyzing everything, but it puts me at ease</p>
<p>Update: Got an email from the Transfer Credit Evaluator with a Transfer Credit Evaluation.</p>
<p>This is starting to feel a whole lot more “real” now! :D</p>
<p>Lucky. I was accepted May 21st and still have not received my credit evaluation.</p>
<p>@littleindia70 haha wow my luck is going great this summer then. I’m sure you’ll get it soon. Congrats btw!</p>
<p>@shelberrto, only 2 people including myself as of yet! I guess Facebook groups aren’t cool anymore or something…</p>
<p>Well, this sucks. I’m guessing those of us who haven’t heard anything yet may be getting rejected…<em>le sobs</em> why do the do this to us?! DON’T GIVE ME FALSE HOPE, JUSE REJECT ME STRAIGHT OUT. My mind is constanly flipping: 1 minute I think I stand and actual chance and the next minute I’m kicking myself for being unrealistic. Omg, NU c’mon!
I have to put some of my plans for next semester on hold until I hear back from the schools I applied to. THIS. SUCKS.</p>
<p>@cluelessbelle why don’t they just reject us all first? but for real, we have stuff to plan if NU rejects us. my fall semester is all lined up but if i have to figure out an NU semester instead… i can’t do that in two weeks. i’ll be studying abroad all of july in a country that might block NU info. c’mon!</p>
<p>@hashtagadrienne: So true! I’m already enrolled in classes for next semester at my current school, but I have yet to sign a lease for housing because I’m still waiting to hear back from NU and the other school I applied to. If I sign a lease now, then break it because I got in to the other schools, it’ll cost me some major cash, which is what I’m trying to avoid. If I push it too long, then I won’t be able to get good housing and may find myself having to commute everyday (yuck!)</p>
<p>Don’t think you’re getting rejected yet! When my sister transferred, she was accepted in late June.</p>
<p>Hopefully we all hear back soon so that we don’t have to keep waiting so anxiously.</p>