Take Aways From This Year's Admissions

homerdog
Sat, 20 May 2017 15:06:22 +0000

@londondad Our Chicago-area school sends between 10-20 kids to NU every year. Last year, everyone who got accepted went ED. I also know a student with perfect scores and a terrific resume in every way who was rejected RD. Her GC told the family that NU probably thought she would go elsewhere…and she did. Stanford.

My husband and I are alums and don’t think that helps at all as we have so many friends who kids are double legacies with strong applications and didn’t get accepted. All of the kids I know personally who were rejected were applying to Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. I think kids applying to Theater, or Music, or Medill might have different experiences.

I’m a little sad if NU still has a chip on its shoulder. When we were there 30 years ago, there were lots of east coast kids who liked to say NU was not their first choice. It WAS mine, so it was a bummer meeting those kids. My freshman roommate spent her first year with her nose to the grindstone so she could get perfect grades and transfer. Moved to Brown for sophomore year. That being said, kids in the “special” programs like theater and journalism were thrilled to be there and their enthusiasm was contagious. I think NU was such an interesting place to spend four years because it attracts the music/theater/writing kids and all students benefit from what they bring to campus.