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Test policy: Test-optional.","Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1490\u20131560, ACT 33\u201335. 50% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, 29% an ACT \u2014 these ranges describe students who submitted, not the whole class.","Cost: about $29,167 a year on average with aid, $91,250 a year at full price.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $89,363 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $776,962 ahead with aid, $528,630 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Information Science/Studies ($163,740); Computer Science ($155,106); Applied Mathematics ($148,740).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 3% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 55% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","Aid pledge published by the college for 2025-26: families earning under $70,000 pay nothing; families earning under $150,000 pay no tuition; aid packages carry no loans; the college meets full demonstrated need.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Northwestern University: 145, 724 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Harvard-Westlake School (6.0 per class year, 6 over 1 class year, BY THE CLASSES OF 2021-2025, counted column \"CLASS OF '25\"); University of Chicago Laboratory Schools (5.2 per class year, 21 over 4 class years, past four years); Ethical Culture Fieldston School (5.0 per class year, 25 over 5 class years, Classes of 2022\u20132026). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/northwestern-university.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Northwestern University: 10, 32 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often Archbishop Mitty High School (3.0 per class year, 3 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); The Chapin School (2.2 per class year, 11 over 5 class years, 2022-2026, counted column \"Admitted\"); Middlesex School (2.0 per class year, 2 over 1 class year, Class of 2026, counted column \"accepted\"). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/northwestern-university.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/northwestern-university.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Private nonprofit","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":1764},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":6099},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":7898},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":18282}],"full_price":91250,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":29167,"npc_url":"https://npc.collegeboard.org/student/app/northwestern","tuition_in_state":68322,"tuition_out_of_state":68322},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":89363,"median_6yr_after_entry":76844},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":32,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. Admits are counted at each college a student was admitted to, so this counts admissions rather than students, the same way the UC Reach Score counts a student admitted to three UC campuses three times. 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