Northwestern c/o 2015 - Coming up: Clown car Ikea parties Forum

[Dato]

Do you guys think that they are done sending out scholarship offers? I hope hope hope not!

[Samara]

Do you guys think that they are done sending out scholarship offers? I hope hope hope not!

All financial aid packages are going out together, so nope.

[XCanadian91]

Do you guys think that they are done sending out scholarship offers? I hope hope hope not!

I just called them and they said that more will go out today and all will go out by tomorrow.

Wow-- my first, real contribution : )

[potl]

living in the middle of nowhere= less than $300 in rent every month. I keep reminding myself that Chicago is worth it...

Also... Chicago is probably one of the most affordable major cities in the US. Chicago rent compared to rent in the Bay area, NYC, or even Boston is ridiculously cheap.

[JDizzle2015]

Got the financial aid package excel...no scholly. lol @ 53k tuition.

Ditto. :/ I guess that 1 LSAT point is worth 90k/120k. Pretty bummed. I wrote (what I thought to be) pretty decent scholly essays too.

[terriers]

Yeah, nothing for me either, ah well, don't think it really affects my decision too much, but congratulations to everybody again that did get $$$.

[nini11]

Nothing for me either...not so sure what to do now, considering I have a full ride at Hofstra.....

[Samara]

Nothing for me either...not so sure what to do now, considering I have a full ride at Hofstra.....

Northwestern is definitely worth it over a full ride at Hofstra.

[nini11]

250000 dollars in loans gives me nightmares, considering I already have loans from undergrad.....

[crumpetsandtea]

Nothing for me either...not so sure what to do now, considering I have a full ride at Hofstra.....

Northwestern is definitely worth it over a full ride at Hofstra.

+1, and I'm seriously not just saying this because I'm a huge NU troll. Do you have any other options with money?

[Samara]

250000 dollars in loans gives me nightmares, considering I already have loans from undergrad.....

I'll be coming in with loans from undergrad. We can commiserate together. NU opens up an entirely different class of career opportunities.

[Kikero]

Bah. I thought I'd finally gotten my loan package, but it was the "final" reminder about the Diverse Student lunch.

[crumpetsandtea]

Bah. I thought I'd finally gotten my loan package, but it was the "final" reminder about the Diverse Student lunch.

LOL they sent like 10 emails about that x_x;;

[Kikero]

Bah. I thought I'd finally gotten my loan package, but it was the "final" reminder about the Diverse Student lunch.

LOL they sent like 10 emails about that x_x;;

I know. I thought about replying and politely declining, but every time I got an e-mail I told myself "this has got to be the last one, so there's no point" but I was wrong.

[nini11]

Nothing for me either...not so sure what to do now, considering I have a full ride at Hofstra.....

Northwestern is definitely worth it over a full ride at Hofstra.

+1, and I'm seriously not just saying this because I'm a huge NU troll. Do you have any other options with money?

I am looking for private scholarships but I missed most of the deadlines...I'm as poor as I can be right now lol so no I have no other options, I am trying to think out of the box but nothing comes to mind....

[franklyscarlet]

Just had an extended "how on earth do I get my shit to chicago" conversation with my mother. It came down to three things:

1)Throw away all the things. Everything but clothes and books, basically.
2) Ship all non-essential clothes and books to the parents.
3) find an apartment, drive all my stuff to Chicago, move in June. Pillage Ikea.
4) parents drive my other stuff to Chicago at their leisure during the summer.

Does this seem... logical? I think it does. I've never moved into a big city before 0_o

[rinkrat19]

Just had an extended "how on earth do I get my shit to chicago" conversation with my mother. It came down to three things:

1)Throw away all the things. Everything but clothes and books, basically.
2) Ship all non-essential clothes and books to the parents.
3) find an apartment, drive all my stuff to Chicago, move in June. Pillage Ikea.
4) parents drive my other stuff to Chicago at their leisure during the summer.

Does this seem... logical? I think it does. I've never moved into a big city before 0_o

Seems logical to me if you are taking a car. I am not taking a car unless I can find a unicorn (Streeterville apartment with free reserved parking).

I'm trying to figure out how to move a TV without hiring movers or driving myself. I don't think it can be done. I won't be shipping a lot (just kitchen stuff, computer/stereo/TV), but I think I'm gonna have to use movers. I also really do not want to have to park in the street and move shit up a service elevator or whatever one does in the city. Better to let the pros do that.

[nini11]

250000 dollars in loans gives me nightmares, considering I already have loans from undergrad.....

I'll be coming in with loans from undergrad. We can commiserate together. NU opens up an entirely different class of career opportunities.

Loop hihi we can indeed, and u'r right about NU

[lsatcrazy]

Withdrew. $60k@Chi>>>$0@NU. gl all.

[Kikero]

Just had an extended "how on earth do I get my shit to chicago" conversation with my mother. It came down to three things:

1)Throw away all the things. Everything but clothes and books, basically.
2) Ship all non-essential clothes and books to the parents.
3) find an apartment, drive all my stuff to Chicago, move in June. Pillage Ikea.
4) parents drive my other stuff to Chicago at their leisure during the summer.

Does this seem... logical? I think it does. I've never moved into a big city before 0_o

Pretty much what I'm doing, although I'm selling my car, so basically I'll be taking whatever I can bring on a plane, and my dad's agreed to come sometime within a week of me moving in (he goes to Chicago regularly for business anyway) so that should make up for being able to bring less stuff.

[bk1]

Just had an extended "how on earth do I get my shit to chicago" conversation with my mother. It came down to three things:

1)Throw away all the things. Everything but clothes and books, basically.
2) Ship all non-essential clothes and books to the parents.
3) find an apartment, drive all my stuff to Chicago, move in June. Pillage Ikea.
4) parents drive my other stuff to Chicago at their leisure during the summer.

Does this seem... logical? I think it does. I've never moved into a big city before 0_o

Seems logical to me if you are taking a car. I am not taking a car unless I can find a unicorn (Streeterville apartment with free reserved parking).

I'm trying to figure out how to move a TV without hiring movers or driving myself. I don't think it can be done. I won't be shipping a lot (just kitchen stuff, computer/stereo/TV), but I think I'm gonna have to use movers. I also really do not want to have to park in the street and move shit up a service elevator or whatever one does in the city. Better to let the pros do that.

I will recommend freight shipping if you have a decent amount of stuff that you can stack neatly. I shipped around 600 lbs worth of stuff for $600. There was some fragile stuff in there (kitchen appliances, speakers, computer, ceramic dishes, pots/pans, etc, but no TV/monitor) as well as other stuff like clothing. Having it all stacked together and wrapped with movers wrap made it pretty protected than if each had been shipped individually (since nobody is picking up boxes with the possibility of dropping them, rather everything's being lifted at once on a pallet jack).

All I had to do was cop a pallet from a local business that gave me one for free and then prepare the pallet myself, they then picked it up from my parents' house and dropped it off at my apartment in Chicago (I used http://www.freightcenter.com/). It was definitely cheaper than shipping the things individually and safer imo. I guess the only risks you have is a forklift accidentally skewering your pallet in a warehouse or it falling off the liftgate when they put it on the truck (which I was irrationally worried about when they put my 600 lb pallet on the liftgate).

[rinkrat19]

Just had an extended "how on earth do I get my shit to chicago" conversation with my mother. It came down to three things:

1)Throw away all the things. Everything but clothes and books, basically.
2) Ship all non-essential clothes and books to the parents.
3) find an apartment, drive all my stuff to Chicago, move in June. Pillage Ikea.
4) parents drive my other stuff to Chicago at their leisure during the summer.

Does this seem... logical? I think it does. I've never moved into a big city before 0_o

Seems logical to me if you are taking a car. I am not taking a car unless I can find a unicorn (Streeterville apartment with free reserved parking).

I'm trying to figure out how to move a TV without hiring movers or driving myself. I don't think it can be done. I won't be shipping a lot (just kitchen stuff, computer/stereo/TV), but I think I'm gonna have to use movers. I also really do not want to have to park in the street and move shit up a service elevator or whatever one does in the city. Better to let the pros do that.

I will recommend freight shipping if you have a decent amount of stuff that you can stack neatly. I shipped around 600 lbs worth of stuff for $600. There was some fragile stuff in there (kitchen appliances, speakers, computer, ceramic dishes, pots/pans, etc, but no TV/monitor) as well as other stuff like clothing. Having it all stacked together and wrapped with movers wrap made it pretty protected than if each had been shipped individually (since nobody is picking up boxes with the possibility of dropping them, rather everything's being lifted at once on a pallet jack).

All I had to do was cop a pallet from a local business that gave me one for free and then prepare the pallet myself, they then picked it up from my parents' house and dropped it off at my apartment in Chicago (I used http://www.freightcenter.com/). It was definitely cheaper than shipping the things individually and safer imo. I guess the only risks you have is a forklift accidentally skewering your pallet in a warehouse or it falling off the liftgate when they put it on the truck (which I was irrationally worried about when they put my 600 lb pallet on the liftgate).

but...TV!
There really doesn't seem to be any way to move a TV besides A)yourself or B)movers.
I'm kind of wondering if it'd be cheaper to freight ship everything besides the TV, and just buy a new TV in Chicago. They've come down in price so much in recent years I could probably even replace my 42" with the same size.

[nini11]

Withdrew. $60k@Chi>>>$0@NU. gl all.

nice, congrats and good luck

[nini11]

Wow, congratulations everyone! Anyone know if negotiating with NU is possible? Got some money, but definitely not a lot...

no idea, I hope so...

[terriers]

What's worked for me in the past is renting a car, taking all my stuff, and then dropping off the car at the destination. I think only National does this and it's kind of pricy. But if you don't have a ton of stuff to move, it works pretty well. So I'll just mainly take clothes, computer, books, etc. and then buy any furniture I need once I'm there.

Plus, might be kind of fun to drive to Chicago.