HPME at Northwestern.

texaspg
Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:38:30 +0000

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.

I dont accept the explanation that HPME interviews and NU admissions are not linked because it is the stupidest explanation a school can put out (expecting people to spend the money to show up for interviews and then waitlisting them for regular admission is something that will hurt their future admissions).

They will know how bad this decision is when people turn down interviews next year.