Northwestern Admissions Essays

Top 2 Successful Northwestern Essays

These college essays are from students who got accepted at Northwestern University. Use them to get inspiration for your own essays and knock the socks off those admissions officers!


Passionate about both science and music, I find Northwestern’s exceptional undergraduate engineering and music programs extremely appealing. The unique opportunity for me to combine McCormick and Bienen into one dual-degree program is even more attractive, allowing me to receive certification ...

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Sweat drips onto my violin as we are filing into the auditorium.

I just arrived from a basketball game, I’m not nervous. However, that changes when I realize that I still have my basketball shoes on. And that I still have a plethora of edits to make in the newspaper room. And that I have three ...

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Northwestern University Facts

Northwestern University (NU or, less commonly, NWU) is a private research university with campuses in Evanston and Chicago in Illinois, United States. Northwestern has 12 undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees.

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