Feelings on switch to Common App

elsijfdl
Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:43:43 +0000

it will actually decrease yield for all universities accepting the common app, and even those who are not, since it encourages kids to apply to many more schools. So while northwestern will have stronger and more applicants, they will have to accept a higher % of them to compensate for the students lost to the yield so selectivity might not actually increase.

Now, if like we were talking about in the other post, northwestern would start offering merit aid, it might be another story.