Chances for Northwestern

NerdyChica
Sat, 16 Apr 2016 03:38:43 +0000

Chicago is more selective than Penn, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell etc. on paper. Whether that really means anything is open to debate. There must be hundreds of threads dedicated to how Chicago solicits applications from students with questionable credentials. Also, I’m not a big fan of the way they use the waitlist. Students admitted to HYPSM calibre schools will often find themselves waitlisted at Chicago. I suspect that this is a form of yield protection but it seems like it’s working for them so who am I to question it.

Chicago went from being an afterthought (at the undergrad level) to being super selective in the span of 5-10 years. I may not agree with their methods but I can’t help but admire the results.