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I got a lengthy handwritten postcard from UG Admissions at Northwestern saying it was a pleasure to ready my application. Do they send this to everyone? I hope it is a good sign!

By Jenniferia (Jenniferia) on Sunday, March 09, 2003 - 10:14 pm: Edit

Sorry... I meant READ not Ready.

By Jenniferia (Jenniferia) on Monday, March 10, 2003 - 03:17 pm: Edit

Check your mail today. Anyone else????

By Jenniferia (Jenniferia) on Monday, March 10, 2003 - 07:14 pm: Edit

Anyone??????

By Tenisghs (Tenisghs) on Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 02:34 pm: Edit

I also received a postcard in the mail!!!

It says the following:
"Dear XXXX,
I really enjoyed reading your application. Your ideas were creative and thoughtful. Your mature insights will serve you well in college. Good luck with your senior year!
Take care, Erika."

Is that a good thing???

By Edrobin (Edrobin) on Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 11:01 pm: Edit

My daughter was accepted via e-mail today by Northwestern. She was wait-listed by the University of Chicago, which is quite bizarre. Northwestern is clearly a more selective school. I'm wondering about the person who interviewed her, from Chicago. He was not user-friendly.

By Gettingnowhere (Gettingnowhere) on Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 11:38 pm: Edit

lol, my interviewer from MIT was not user-friendly either, who obviously has contributed to my waitlisting decision.

By Hash (Hash) on Thursday, April 17, 2003 - 05:24 pm: Edit

U chicago is a much more selective school than NU ! Only Intellegentsia make it to U CHIC! and where as Nu has a good diverse student body !

By Emeraldkity4 (Emeraldkity4) on Friday, April 25, 2003 - 12:57 pm: Edit

I would second that Hash.
U Chicago some would rank as more academic than the Ivies, Northwestern while a decent school is not on that level

By Edrobin (Edrobin) on Saturday, April 26, 2003 - 08:35 pm: Edit

Well, the statistics say it's at least 10% easier to get into Chicago than Northwestern. It had the highest acceptance rate I've seen, in a so-called "selective" school. Almost 44%.

By Emeraldkity4 (Emeraldkity4) on Sunday, April 27, 2003 - 07:18 pm: Edit

I think that might be outdated acceptane rate- Reed is now at 41% acceptance and it is slightly less academic than Chicago
US News cites Chicagos rate at 36%
It is higher than Ivies because has more self selected students
Known as the where fun comes to die school
However I hear there is a new t-shirt quit your bitching- or go home

By Edrobin (Edrobin) on Sunday, April 27, 2003 - 08:10 pm: Edit

I got my acceptance rate from the Educational Testing Service. Based on last year's statistics.

By Emeraldkity4 (Emeraldkity4) on Monday, April 28, 2003 - 11:06 am: Edit

I made the mistake I was looking at another University in Chicago
They do self select though but I wonder if it has gone down this year.

By Hash (Hash) on Saturday, May 10, 2003 - 03:11 pm: Edit

U Chicago has one of the Toughest Applications! Not that NU has an easy application ,

NU application people can do answer the short questions even in a day , and the essays are not that tough as of Uchic

Where as U Chicago , has one of the toughest applications , as the long essays are really mind boggling ! Check out their essays of last yr !

" one said -- How do u feel abt wednesday"

Man wednesday is wednesday ! LOL , talk abt Saturday ! Lol

Other said sum hi fi stuff too !

So only selected people apply as the brochure warns them that " This uni is bound to cause deep thinking and what not " (but the brochure is awesome! ) do call for it even if u dun apply..lol

so people who apply to U CHIC are very very select and work very hard on the application as they very well know that how the university's repuatation lies in social life and parties!

So select people apply and they get in !

thats why the rate is quite high !
BTW even NU has an acceptance rate of 38% which is also quite high !!
NU has a 50% acceptance rate in NU man ! (its like, 1 out of 2 )

So acceptance rate doesnt make much difference!

By Tenisghs (Tenisghs) on Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 12:23 pm: Edit

NU's acceptance rate this year was 30%. UChicago's acceptance rate is near 50%.

By Cuponoodles (Cuponoodles) on Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 10:56 pm: Edit

Yeah. NU's acceptance rate is around 33%. It's right next to Cornell's 27% in acceptances. U of Chicago is much higher.

By Goneinfivemin (Goneinfivemin) on Wednesday, July 16, 2003 - 10:04 am: Edit

Acceptance rates can be deceiving. U Chicago accepts 44% or whatever of a completely different applicant pool (read: more qualified) than Northwestern's. I believe the students that end up at both schools are similarly qualified, but U Chicago can accept a higher percentage of their applicant pool because those that apply are already higher qualified. Northwestern has more to weed out to get the same caliber of applicants.

By Rocksolid4 (Rocksolid4) on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 11:13 pm: Edit

Goneinfivemin, that's like saying that Caltech has a higher quality of applicant than Stanford. NWU and UChicago are both incredibly high calibur schools, and just because one is reputed to have a higher workload (UChicago, Caltech) does not mean that smarter people apply there. It means a different kind of smart person applies there. Definitely would dispute your claim.

By Clickspring (Clickspring) on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 11:18 pm: Edit

U CHicago's applicant pool is very self selective...not a lot of kids apply for for an even fewer number of spots in the class.

By Bitz (Bitz) on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 11:21 pm: Edit

Rock solid, Caltech actually does tend to have a stronger applicant pool. This is because Stanford gets applicants that have little chance at the school, but like the prestige. Caltech gets fewer of these applicants because only the best math and science students would even consider Caltech as an option. Additionally, people who are not academically up to the challenge of Stanford still apply because of the parties, beautiful campus, etc. Few of these factors play a role in the Caltech admission process (I've never heard anyone say that they went to Caltech for the Greek scene for example).

However, this does not mean that the accepted students are of differing caliber. I would argue that both schools accept similarly qualified applicants (just like Goneinfivemin says about UChi and NWU), but that the average rejected applicant from Caltech is stronger than the average rejected applicant from Stanford.

By Collegeboy453 (Collegeboy453) on Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 06:42 am: Edit

It is true that, although both U Chicago and Northwestern are top school, U Chicago does tend to have a higher quility applicant pool, meaning a higher acceptance rate. The students that apply to U Chicago are many times the ones who are applying here as a mid-range school or even safety school while the schools they are really looking at are HYPS. Same with CalTech and Stanford. All kinds of applicants apply to Stanford whereas only a certain type of students apply to CalTech. This certain type of applicant is usually something like a geek but very intelligent.

By Ooga (Ooga) on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 08:31 am: Edit

Again s passionate defense of Chicago on the NORTHWESTERN BOARD. Doesn't that say something? Ahhhh Chicago Rocks~!

By Ooga (Ooga) on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 08:32 am: Edit

whoops, double post. sowie.

By Hegemonhenenen (Hegemonhenenen) on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 12:40 pm: Edit

Going back on topic here,
these letters from the ugadm are for RD, correct?

By Kk19131 (Kk19131) on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 01:30 pm: Edit

I didn't get one.....

By Aclockworkowens (Aclockworkowens) on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 02:51 pm: Edit

Keep in mind that this thread started last March...these people are already enrolled in college. As far as I know, nothing of the sort has been sent out from northwestern, so I wouldn't be concerned.

By Melodious04 (Melodious04) on Friday, March 05, 2004 - 08:34 pm: Edit

I applied RD and got a handwritten letter today.
It was very thoughtful of them .

By Melodious04 (Melodious04) on Friday, March 05, 2004 - 08:36 pm: Edit

Wow... I didn't notice how old this thread was... Oh well .

By Tenaciouselle (Tenaciouselle) on Friday, March 05, 2004 - 10:48 pm: Edit

What did it say, Melodious?

By Wastingtime (Wastingtime) on Saturday, March 06, 2004 - 08:23 am: Edit

lol, it would be cool it we could communicate accross time!

By Melodious04 (Melodious04) on Saturday, March 06, 2004 - 06:03 pm: Edit

It said:

Hello I am [Name of Student] a senior at Northwestern University. I am writing to wish you well with the remainder of your high school academic year. Continue to work hard and do well. If you have any qustion about NU or college life in general please feel free to contact me at [his email address I think... so I will omit it too].

Best Wishes,
[Name of Student]

Not quite as impressive as the person's postcard who started this thread, but it made me smile anyway .

By Anomaly (Anomaly) on Saturday, March 06, 2004 - 11:09 pm: Edit

I got the exact same message

By Zcat18 (Zcat18) on Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 01:23 am: Edit

I read a statistic from the admission office at NU that around 63% of common NU/UC admits who choose one or the other end up at Northwestern. If you look at the statistics (average SAT, class rank, etc.) of the student bodies at both schools, which are nearly identical, you'll see that trying to claim one's superiority is a futile and is obviously only borne from personal insecurity.