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2012-2013 Northwestern University Application Thread
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rejected as well! Pre-Interview. Complete early sept i believe
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Same here - complete end of August
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Also got the axe. At least I don't feel alone in this... 😛
Rejected pre-interview as well, complete late Augustish
Sorry, everyone 🙁 Thankfully it looks like a lot of you have had better luck elsewhere, keep your heads up and good luck in the rest of your cycle
Me too. Their rejection email was sweet, at least...
+1. 🙂
Not sure if I'd have been able to justify spending the cash for traveling, so I guess it was nice of them to make the decision for me.
and to let them keep raining down, also rejected today.
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Suddenly, I don't feel so alone.
Rejected pre-interview, complete end of August
Rejected pre-interview, complete end of August
Also rejected, no Chicago for me.
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Second look is April 11-12! as far as the information package....i'm also looking forward to getting one.
soo...if i was complete late september and didn't get the axe yet, should I be hopeful? anyone else not hear anything yet?
you can be accepted! There were at least one or two current Feinberg students who posted that they were accepted after being deferred in this thread.
Did any of interviewees from the week of 12/10 hear back?
Should I wait until i get a decision or send LOI right now? love NU!
Should I wait until i get a decision or send LOI right now? love NU!
Nope. I REALLLY thought we would hear back this week 🙁 I also thought that we would hear back the previous 2 weeks lol.
Oh we'll, I guess next week.
*fingers crossed*
Thought I'd survived this latest round of rejections... but I did not. Complete early October, rejected 1/21. Good luck to everyone still hanging in there!
If you're waiting over Christmas break, add 3 weeks (or subtract from the total as a handicap). I think they usually meet later in the week (Thursdayish) ... so probably hear later this week or next?. Then again, I think it took about 8 weeks to hear back for me and that was without a break.
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Anyone know what the chances are like for deferred?
I believe the only post-interview rejections are given in March, and this is a rather small pool of applicants.
I believe it is still quite high. NU, as with all of the top schools, has a pretty high turnover rate. This is due to many people accepted here will have multiple acceptances. I heard a number like < 50% are accepted initially, > 50% will be taken in March or off the waitlist.. But I'm not sure on this.
Both of these responses will need to be confirmed, as I'm going completely from what I recall hearing.
The mantra I heard and have been sticking to is 25/25/25/25 acceptance/post-deferral acceptance/waitlist/rejection. I'm sure that's not exactly right, but looking through last year's thread there seem to be relatively equal groups in each. I think that's pretty consistent with your numbers once you group waitlist acceptances with March acceptances.
This wait until March is killing me. I feel so helpless. 🙁
I remember Dean Wallace saying something along these lines too, in which the total number of post-interview rejections will definitely be a smaller number than the total acceptances and waitlists from the deferred pool.
He gave us a lot of optimism. 🙂
I sure hope that those are right! Those are pretty good odds, if true. I know NU is very selective in their interview invite selection process so everyone has a pretty good shot post-interview. Somewhere even as high as 60ish% acceptance rate! Someone can check USNews to confirm that. I know it's at least above 50%.
If it is 60% and the upper numbers are true:
25% accepted initially, 25% are accepted in March, then about half of the waitlisted students will get offers as well.
Now that, my friends, is optimism 🙂 Much better than those schools that interview 1,000+ applicants for 200 acceptances...
If it is 60% and the upper numbers are true:
25% accepted initially, 25% are accepted in March, then about half of the waitlisted students will get offers as well.
Now that, my friends, is optimism 🙂 Much better than those schools that interview 1,000+ applicants for 200 acceptances...
HOPEFULLY I will be in that 60%
Hey everyone!!
Question on behalf of my shy friend! She's interviewing at Feinberg/Northwestern soon and is wondering a) how long a taxi generally takes from the medical school to Chicago O'Hare airport and b) if she could make a 5pm flight if the interview day ends at 3!
Best of luck to all of you who will hear back in March! 🙂 🙂
Question on behalf of my shy friend! She's interviewing at Feinberg/Northwestern soon and is wondering a) how long a taxi generally takes from the medical school to Chicago O'Hare airport and b) if she could make a 5pm flight if the interview day ends at 3!
Best of luck to all of you who will hear back in March! 🙂 🙂
She should definitely leave more time than that. I would guess at that time (and coming from downtown) the taxi will take around an hour, if not more.
I took a taxi both ways, in terms of arrival, it really depends on your time of day. I arrived during rush hour, which my driver kindly informed me runs from 3-9 in Chicago. It was also raining and extremely windy. I was on the road for 2 hours. 😡
After interview day, it took just slightly less than an hour, but I wouldn't risk it.
Blue line to the loop then red line... ORD to NU
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Are they giving out any more acceptances before march?
At that time of day, the train will be faster than a taxi and probably save you like 50 bucks. Should take a little over an hour. Also, there is no harm in leaving the interview early. The last 30 minutes really aren't necessary - just talk about financial aid and dual degrees, really similar to other schools. And before that is just the tour. Anyways, good luck!
At that time of day, the train will be faster than a taxi and probably save you like 50 bucks. Should take a little over an hour. Also, there is no harm in leaving the interview early. The last 30 minutes really aren't necessary - just talk about financial aid and dual degrees, really similar to other schools. And before that is just the tour. Anyways, good luck!
People seem to have the travel thing covered pretty well. I'll +1 the fact that a 5pm flight is really pushing it... rush hour along 90 is brutal if she's taking a cab, and getting through security at O'Hare can be unpredictable. It's possible, but I wouldn't want that extra stress on my interview day.
There will be at least another batch or two. Everyone who's interviewed at this point will (probably) hear back before March; everyone from here on probably wont. This is just a guess based on last year's trends, so take that as it is.
There will be at least another batch or two. Everyone who's interviewed at this point will (probably) hear back before March; everyone from here on probably wont. This is just a guess based on last year's trends, so take that as it is.
Thank you to all of you who responded!!! She's so grateful to have so many supportive/helpful people on SDN...I'll convince her to make an account 😀 I think she's going to probably leave at 2:30 then and take public transportation (train/subway) to O'Hare if she has to make the 5pm flight...or maybe she'll just stay in Chicago another day 😛
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Sometime this week, hopefully!
I remember feeling this way each monday for the past two weeks. It feels even MORE likely this time!
it says application website will be temporarily unavailable..maybe this is it? =]
Yeah, maybe. I've noticed that this show up periodically, has it typically been Mondays?
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