<p>nearerthansky-That 50% number you’re throwing out for NU ED is incorrect. This year, approximately 35% were accepted ED. That is quite a bit higher than the acceptance % for RD, but as WCASParent has pointed out, ED applicants are a self-selecting crowd.</p>
<p>^They’re a self-selecting crowd with a 100% likelihood of yielding as well as a built-in school spirit. Not to mention a fair number are athletes, legacies and so on.</p>
<p>“(b) gives more false hope to a deferred ED-er who’ll eventually get rejected.”</p>
<p>Hey, hey, hey! That wasn’t very nice. Our grades were probably sketchy at some point in our transcripts (I know mine were sophomore year) so they need to make sure we don’t fall into another bad phase this year. They are genuinely interested in us, they just want to make sure we don’t slack off the year right before we attend NU.</p>
<p>@momof3sons</p>
<p>I believe he was referring to the deferral admit rate in the Regular Decision round.</p>
<p>My friend is a 3 sport star, takes the hardest classes in the school, and is basically an upstanding person in all regards, so I’m sure NW considered this when deciding not to outright reject him. My breakdown: 790m 790r 720w - I only took the SAT once and I’m kicking myself for this. I believe I could’ve raised it to the 2350+ range because the writing section was the only one I did badly in.</p>
<p>@MimiSD: It’s unfortunate that you misinterpreted me. I’m speaking as a deferred applicant myself and I too am in a situation whereby a messy situation with grades (freshman year, in my case) is the weak point of my application. </p>
<p>Having said that, what I meant by:</p>
<p><a href=“b”>quote</a> gives more false hope to a deferred ED-er who’ll eventually get rejected.
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<p>was that if you’re deferred ED and eventually rejected at a place that accepts say 50% of its deferred applicants, you’d feel worse than if you were deferred and eventually rejected at a school that accepts 5% of its deferred applicants. In any case, my personal view is that it’s better to be rejected outright so that if you’re eventually not accepted, you wouldn’t feel bad because “[you] were just so close”.</p>
<p>Drought-
Writing section is not really important. Your scores are great.
Good luck.</p>
<p>By the way, if you want to be a Wildcat it’s time to learn that it’s NU, not NW!</p>
<p>@WCASParent: I would argue that the writing section is important in the context of the rest of your application. You can’t claim to be a writer or a prospective English major if say, your writing scores dip below a certain point. I doubt that standardized test scores are even used uniformly for assessing candidates whose applications should be read with distinctly different approaches. </p>
<p>However,</p>
<p>@Drought: Even if the writing section were important, your scores are great. A 720W is certainly not going to get you rejected. In fact, retaking the SAT when you already have a 2300 might come off as a stupid thing to do (which makes my retake an exercise in idiocy). I’m sure you’ll do great in the admissions process. Good luck.</p>
<p>@srrinath
Sorry for the misinterpretation. I know what you mean, though. Oi. I’m just so worried about this. This isn’t fun 
but I guess it never was.</p>