<p>I was stressing about this quite a bit as well. I felt like what happened with me was that NU assumed I’d go to HYPS, but HYPS kind of rejected/waitlisted me… 
I took steps to get off NU’s waitlist, sending an email explicitly stating how the school is my first choice to the point where I’d turn down Cornell (didn’t mention Cornell by name, of course). Hopefully that works.</p>
<p>My only concern is, with admissions percentages this historically low across the board, NU played it safe and chose people who would attend. This year might thus result in a very high matriculation rate and a proportionally low waitlist acceptance rate. But that’s all hypothetical.</p>