HPME at Northwestern.

texaspg
Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:49:09 +0000

If 40 people are admitted and 32 people accepted, it is no big deal for you to call it 80% in one of the smallest samples for college admissions for probably one of the best combined programs at the moment in the country. I have seen a sample of two - one who is turning down harvard to go to HPME and the other who said she will probably turn it down to go Yale, thus angering an entire crowd of HPME applicants who were already upto their neck with this silly waitlist business.

Not admitting the other 100 candidates invited for HPME interview is pure idiocy. It is also BS to say that we are picking only the best of the candidates out of 3000 applicants to even send an application, then choosing the 150 best students to further narrow down the pool and then selecting 40-50 candidates out of them to confer them the honor of admission - if you are telling me the adcoms dont consider them cream of the crop, then they dont deserve their jobs. So the only thing that makes any sense is they are playing a numbers game.

Irrespective of 20% admit rate, NU is still admitting 5500 people to get to their 38% yield with a whopping 3300 people expected to turn it down. So you are telling me 3300 people who will be turning down NU are superior to the extra hundred who were turned down from HPME and thus put on waitlist, and I have to believe that? Whatever.