Admission Requirements

Kayelyn Smith:
All righty. Hello, my name is Kayelyn. I am an admissions outreach advisor, on behalf of the IMC Professional Program at Northwestern University. Thanks for joining. I'll be walking you through how to use this application system Campus Nexus when applying to the IMC Professional program through the Medill School. The page that you see here on the website is for the online application system that's called Campus Nexus. This page can be found on the IMC Professional Program website, I've actually got that open here as well. You can press the Apply Now button, [chuckle] You might have also received this link from an admissions advisor. And in order to start your application, you'll first need to create an account by clicking on this button here. That will prompt you to enter in your name and your email address and a password, which you will then be prompted to activate your account.

You'll receive an email with a link that allows you to activate, which I've just done. So I'm gonna go ahead and log in. Part in the long time, the long wait time here. But this will pop up with the main portal page. You can click on the apply now button or the review application button, or you can go to recommenders. I'm starting a new application, so I'm gonna click on Apply Now.

All right, so I was invited to start my application and I selected the IMC professional program. There was a dropdown menu, that showed both the full-time integrated marketing communications program, alongside also the Master's of Science in journalism, neither of those would be the correct option, it would be the IMC Professional program. I've clicked on that, and then it brought me to the program information page where I will click on Integrated Marketing Communications and I'll be applying for the fall term, then we'll press save and continue.

All right, so now we're on the applicant information page. This is where you'll be adding in your personal information. You need to do your name, your first name, and your last name, your date of birth. You'll add in your contact information here, your address. And then if you scroll down to the bottom, there's a couple of other questions here about your background. I'm gonna fill this information in and move on to the next page, and I'll be right back.

All righty. The next page is your previous education. You need to input all of the schools or institutions that you attended for a degree. This includes bachelor's degrees associates, as well as previous master's degrees that you might have completed as well. You need to input every single school or institution that you've attended. So if you have transfer credits or if you did community college for a few years, and then finish your bachelor's, make sure you are including all of your schools.

I'm gonna take a moment here to enter in my information and then I'll progress to the next page, the application documentation. Okay, so we've made it to the application documentation page. This is where you're required to submit your three documents, which are your personal statement, it's the essay, your resume, and your transcripts from your bachelor's degree, and any other university or institutions that you've attended. In order to upload your documents, you'll click on this upload button here, takes a second to load. And for example, this upload button is for the personal statement, you can see here under the description the two essay prompts for the essay. You need to answer both of these prompts, throughout the course of your writing. Okay. When you're ready to upload your essay, you'll click on this upload attachment button and then browse. You'll upload your document, you'll press the save document button, which locks it in there, and then you'll submit it, which officially uploads it into the system.

So I'll show you again with the resume. You'll click this upload button here, upload attachment, excuse me, browse, save document, and then submit. All right. And then we'll do that one more time. Upload, upload attachment, browse, save document, submit. There you go. You'll need to do that for all three of your documents here. Now please note, I just used the same document just as a placeholder for now, but you should not do that when you, [chuckle] submit your application. But because I've uploaded everything here and you can see that it has been received, you can also view that document at any time by clicking on this view button. And if for some reason you need to switch out this document for a different one, you would click on this button here to remove it. But that's what you need to do for all three.

And then once you've done that, I'll be able to click on this save and continue button, and then we'll move on to this next page for your recommenders. This is where you need to add in your two recommenders. I've just added in some, [chuckle] some fake recommenders here and you can see by clicking on the edit button, you can make changes to the information that you've added. You can say their title if you want, which I've left blank, their first name, their last name, and then the email as well. And if at any time you need to resend this email, you can. But after inputting their information, it automatically sends an email to them inviting them to upload their letter for you. And they will receive a link to upload their letter.

All right, so once you've added in both of your recommenders, you can click on this save and continue button. You do have to have at least two before, you'll be able to move on. And then this brings you to the final page, which is the additional information, you need to add in your previous work experience here. So you'll be adding in your, the name of your employer, your job title, the start date and the end date and whether or not this is your current employer. You need to add in at least one, you can add in two or three if you want. And then down here is the internship experience. This is not relevant for the professional program, please feel free to ignore it. And then finally, down at the bottom, there's two questions here, the first is, if you would like, you can write in the other schools or institutions that you're applying to. And then finally down here at the bottom, there's an additional information essay section.

This is optional, it's not required. But sometimes students write a little blurb maybe about their undergraduate GPA or about their previous work experience. Anything that the student would like to kind of emphasize or discuss directly with the admissions committee, you can write a paragraph or two as an additional information to essay section, you can upload it here. I'm gonna go ahead and press save and continue and move on. And then finally, you'll be prompted to pay the application fee for this program, the application fee is $100. And you would pay the amount by clicking on this pay button here, which will then prompt you to add in your credit card information. Once you've added that information in, you'll be able to submit your application.

So this is it. This is the entire application system. I hope it's been clear. If you have any questions, of course, please don't hesitate to reach out to the admissions team, either your admissions advisor or anybody else, we're here to help you, and we look forward to seeing your application soon. Good luck and bye, bye.