<p>woah.. was a "chance me" thread just deleted?</p>
<p>haha, yah. The troll got hosed. Nicely done, whoever reported him.</p>
<p>there was some good information in that thread, namely that northwestern identifies level of applicant's interest as a "considered" factor in admissions in their common data set: <a href="http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/commondata/2005-06/c.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/commondata/2005-06/c.htm</a></p>
<p>and also that schools are all but unaware of student's application status/situation with other schools: <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2DA1E38F935A15754C0A9649C8B63&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FOrganizations%2FY%2FYale%20University%20%5B/url%5D">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2DA1E38F935A15754C0A9649C8B63&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FOrganizations%2FY%2FYale%20University%20</a></p>