HPME at Northwestern.

Sam_Lee
Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:06:47 +0000

The ones invited for an interview are mostly ivy league material. Lot of them typically reject HPME to go to one of their other schools.

1. NU is already on par with at least one of the Ivies (Cornell) in terms of selectivity.

2. Most HPME admits matriculate. The yield has been ~70-80%.

I went and read that thread. It looks like northwestern was playing a game knowing that HPME rejectees wont show up at NU and so they waitlisted them. It is the stupidest thing a college can do and as someone mentioned in that thread, this is the first year people noticed 8 or 9 people on waitlist from an interview list, when the people being interviewed are the cream of the crop of the graduating class.

1. This is the first year the admit rate hit below 20%. The admission has become more “random”. If they want to play games, they would have done it much earlier, when it was easier to tell who would be HYPMS admits than now.

2. The people being interviewed are not necessarily considered “the cream of the crop of the graduating class” by the undergrad adcom. The HPME adcom have their own set of criteria while the undergrad adcom can view things differently.