In at Duke, but waitlisted at Northwestern?

patlees88
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:28:55 +0000

i just wanted to add…last year, i did some careful analysis w/ bunch of my friends. It seemed that last year, most of my friends who applied to NU and were waitlisted were ‘usual’ qualified students for NU. Cheking our h.s.‘s naviance website, all these students’ gpa and test scores comfortably fell into the range of only acceptances and few waitlists. NU, traditionally, is a school with rather predictable admission, and everything changed since they switched to commonapp and applications skyrocketed. Interestingly, out of 12 friends that were waitlisted, 8 of them ended up getting in during summer of last year. This, as we found out, was largely due to the fact that NU’s yield rate last year was the lowest in NU’s history, despite its lowest acceptance rate in its history. Basically, NU had to fill up the class with bunch of waitlisted students anyway in the end. So, my hint to all the NU waitlisted students is that they all have a solid shot at getting in. Unlike WashU, NU doesn’ waitlist everyone. They waitlist only the applicants that they feel are qualified.