Selecting a specific school within a university; can it hurt or help your chances?

ColdWind
Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:57:38 +0000

The advice given in Post #2 may not apply to the OP’s specific situation when applying to the School of Communications at Northwestern University since this includes the nation’s top theatre program as a major, and the incredibly selective theatre major accepts only 100 students per year. Also, transferring schools within Northwestern University is either unnecessary or hard. Unnecessary because School of Communication students have the right to also take classes & declare a major in the College of Arts & Sciences. Hard to transfer into the Journalism School, which may be the best in the world, Music School which requires an audition, & Engineering School because of numerous course requirements. But it is easy to transfer to WCAS if necessary or desired.