Any information about ED MMSS??

Viviste
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:07:18 +0000

Obviously I can’t speak for the admissions committee, but I believe lienad is on the exact right path.

You should probably treat your deferrals as legitimate deferrals and not as polite rejections.

As an MMSS student, I’ve been able to see the kind of attention we get - even relative to econ majors here at NU - and it doesn’t surprise me that (1) more and more applicants of a superb caliber realize the value the program and (2) more and more recruiters head in for that student base. These two things have been playing off of each other for a bunch of years now and the program is changing because of it - and the results have been resulting in a more competitive Freshmen application. It can’t hurt that the previous MMSS director, Dale Mortensen, won a Nobel in Economics last year.

I would go as far to say that MMSS has been consistently receiving a greater amount of applications than the admissions committee has anticipated for a couple of years in a row - results of (1) and (2) - and they’re more likely to defer so that they can better understand the landscape from which they’re sending out acceptances.

It’s a small class size, and - like any sufficiently large early action pool for a small number of seats - deferring allows for better ability to mold an incoming class, and I think that holds particularly true when the landscape has been changing as drastically as it is.