<p>Hey everyone! RD applicant into McCormick for their Industrial Engineering program from Oklahoma (hoping that helps a little haha). I was rejected from Wharton ED, but hopefully I’ll get into McCormick as it is an excellent school. Anxiously awaiting April 1…</p>
<p>are they definitely doing april 1st? or sometime around then?</p>
<p>I just got an email that said we would hear back MID-APRIL!!! Would they actually make us wait that long???</p>
<p>that is definitely way too long…</p>
<p>Hi everyone. I’m a female from CA, interested in Comm Studies. I hope to get into the entertainment or advertising industry after college. I don’t have spectacular stats, but I hope my URM status and passion for Journalism will get me in.</p>
<p>First prospective music performance major? Well I’m looking into the dual degree program with math as well. Bienen here I come!</p>
<p>yea bienen! i’m not really lookin to be a music major but i like playing the violin. maybe i’ll get lucky and play in one of NUs orchestras</p>
<p>With regards to the mid-April notification, I’m less concerned about having to wait a bit longer and more so about having to decide my college destination in the course of 15 days.</p>
<p>Srrinath, me too!
I really want to visit some schools that are farther away, but I can’t afford to fly out to Boston or L.A. without knowing I actually got in.
I live near NU, so I’ve stayed overnight and loved it, but I would like to visit some of my other choices.
So I’m terrified about making a decision!</p>
<p>I live in Singapore, so I’ll have to make my decision ‘blind’. It’ll be logistically impossible, and financially impractical to visit each college in those fifteen days. Basing my decision on information on the internet makes it that much scarier. And to compound all that, I applied to seventeen high-match to reach schools in RD, so for all you know, researching early could be of no avail.</p>
<p>You were deferred from ED at Northwestern? That’s new. Thought the school only issued Accept or Reject for ED?</p>
<p>^^NU started using deferrals for ED last year I think.
Apparently, however, they are reputed to use it sparingly, which I think is good because the thing I really liked about the former accept or reject policy was that it was merciful and let students who weren’t going to get in move on.
In the new system, a relatively small number are deferred and the perception (whether accurate or not i can’t tell you) is that being deferred ED means that you really do have a meaningful chance RD.</p>
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<p>Which:
(a) still provides no closure
(b) gives more false hope to a deferred ED-er who’ll eventually get rejected.</p>
<p>I personally think the accept/reject policy is better, although this is the frustrated voice of someone who has been deferred early (not from NU).</p>
<p>As one of the 48 ED applicants who were deferred, I can honestly tell you that the uncertainty has had an accelerating effect on my work ethic. I studied like an Indian for finals and am milking every point out of every test and quiz in the last two weeks of the semester. I jammed my heel on the gas pedal in all extracurriculars, too. There is no way I would have been this insanely motivated at this point in my senior year if it weren’t for the deferral.</p>
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<p>Well, if I’m any decent representation of “an Indian” you probably slacked off and watched a movie (or three) on finals weeks.</p>
<p>I meant Indian stereotypes as they exist at my school. You should visit.</p>
<p>I sent in my application to Northwestern a couple of weeks ago and I really like the school. I think I have a pretty good chance of getting in, but I’m not really sure. What I’m wondering is: Do ED applicants have a significantly better chance of getting in than RD applicants? I’m asking because one of my friends who got a 1950 on the SAT and has about a 3.2 got deferred ED, which makes me pretty confident that I can get in RD because I have a 2300 and a 3.7. But again, I don’t really have any idea how lenient Northwestern is on ED applicants. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>i have no idea drought. there are stats but i dont think anyone really knows. just be hopeful!!! :)</p>
<p>Drought–For EDers, it’s almost 50%. I’d direct you to the website, but I can’t find the link right now. Keep in mind that applications are viewed in combination with Extracurriculars, Essays, etc. Numbers are good but they aren’t the only things the admissions office looks at.</p>
<p>Drought-
You can’t view ED admit rates in a vacuum, separate and apart from the qualifications of the ED applicants who get in because to a significant degree they are a self-selecting group.
I am frankly surprised that your friend got deferred ED with that GPA and those test scores, which are extremely low for NU. I suspect there’s more to that applicant that you’re either not telling us or that you just don’t know, because on the numbers alone it would look like an easy rejection. URM? Development case? Some extraordinary talent, athletic ability, life story?
Your chances, of course, have nothing to do with his/hers. Your test scores are excellent (what’s the breakdown?) and your GPA is solid, even if not overwhelming for NU.</p>