<p>My daughter is really interested in Educational Policy; she has been working with disabled people for a few years and talks a lot about the intersection of societal attitudes towards the disabled, laws and social programs. I think she would like the School of Education Programs at Northwestern.</p>
<p>However, her academic credentials are not as good as the credentials of most of the students who apply to Northwestern. She has a 3.6 GPA (worst 3.0 freshman year but getting better each year thereafter) and PSATs of 770 W, 690 CR and 570 (ouch)M. </p>
<p>EC’s are all social service/community service related.</p>
<p>Anyone think she has a crack at getting into Northwestern? If she does, I would spend the money for her to visit, but if she doesn’t I would rather save it.</p>
<p>enfall2004, NU seems interested in people, who are seriously interested in NU. A campus visit helps demonstrate that kind of interest, and would also help her write a better informed application thus increasing her admission chances.</p>
<p>I’m not sure exactly how PSAT scores predict SAT scores, since my daughter didn’t take PSAT’s. However, it doesn’t look like her scores will be prohibative. NU takes other things strongly into consideration, like essays (see hazmat’s link), so it’s certainly worth a try if she thinks NU’s program is right for her.</p>
<p>How far away does she live? Could a trip to NU be combined with other campus visits?</p>
<p>I did much better on my SATs than PSATs. If she hasn’t taken the SATs yet, she still has time to take rigorous courses and boost her GPA too. Visits help you understand more about SESP (which is such a great school, I am in it) and also make you look better on your application (where you can demonstrate how much you know and why you’re interested in SESP). I’d really recommend visiting. Especially if she applied ED I think she would have a shot.</p>
<p>THanks all. What I gather from your posts is that Northwestern is not entirely out of my daughter’s league, and so, we will start to plan a visit. Dfleish, what are you studying in SESP?</p>
<p>SESP traditionally has been the easier to get in among the 6 schools at Northwestern. They are definitely not as annal about math score like the engineering school does. That said, SAT is the kind of test where you can improve significantly in a short period of time, given the right training.</p>
<p>Are you saying if one wants to double major, one in SESP and another in communication, he/she has to be admitted to SESP first, not school of communication and the degree will be awarded from SESP? I don’t think you meant a SESP student can’t add a major from another school since that’s what one of my friends did (his second major was econ).</p>
<p>No, you can always transfer into SESP. But if you’re in WCAS for Econ and want to double major LOC, you need to transfer into SESP and your primary degree will be from SESP, not WCAS.</p>
<p>I wonder what that diploma would look like. I double majored in McCormick and I have two separate diploma (I guess it’s a dual-degree instead of a double-major) from the school. No one would know I double majored if I show only one of them.</p>
<p>LOC is the man. Anyone who’s interested in business but doesn’t want to go through the hell of an Econ major at NU should look into LOC. It’s the hidden gem of NU. Not that I’m biased or anything </p>
<p>That’s how I see it, too. I was considering an Econ double major, but after Macro with Witte… hell no. I’m glad you enjoyed LOC though, it gives me a lot to look forward to.</p>
<p>How are things going now that Jeanie Egmon is gone? I’d love to see if LOC was actually able to approach leadership change from an LOC perspective, lol.</p>
<p>A friend of mine was under the impression that just about everyone that applies to Education is accepted, due to lack of applicants. Is there any truth to this?</p>
<p>I’m not sure, as I transferred to SESP during my sophomore year from WCAS. However, I do know that something like 90% of LOC students transferred over after getting to NU. I think that percentage is much less for Social Policy and Secondary Education. Not sure about HDPS (Human Development Psych Services).</p>
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