chicago - northwestern

patlees88
Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:24:53 +0000

I forgot to mention this as well. Last year, NU accepted the majority of students who were waitlisted bc of the fact that they were facing all time low yield rates. All my friends from h.s. who were waitlisted from NU ended up getting in. (4) This would make NU’s admit rate even higher than what the previous number suggests. The reason NU’s yield was so low last year is bc while NU’s admit pool suddenly got much more competitive as a result of common app, many who were accepted by NU were too good to chose NU at the same time. In other words, many accepted students last year chose Ivies or Stanford and just applied to NU in the first place just as a safety.
Thus, NU accepted tons of people off waitlist. So, NU’s admit rate should be considerably higher than 26.8% considering the fact that they ended up accepting many waitlisted people in the end.