Northwestern University did not learn

QuantMech
Sat, 01 Jun 2013 22:41:16 +0000

Northwestern may be getting an unusual amount of parental and GC anger due to a significant change in acceptance rate over a short period. There is not a lot that they can do about that. I don’t know whether the shift in the acceptance rate is acknowledged in the letter of rejection, though, and that might be one place to revise it, if not.

While acknowledging that the type of rejection letter that is easiest on the ego might look quite different for people of different Myers-Briggs types, I think that some of the letters that I have seen directly or have seen posted on CC are much better than others.