waitlisted to northwestern, what does this mean for other top-tier schools? I am really scared

@NROTCgrad‌ Hmm. Are you positive this process is not being oversimplified? Especially the last reasoning you gave. Not every school is Harvard. I want to go to CMU SCS (very very prestigious in terms of CS department, but CMU is notorious for extremely bad financial aid).

I think Harvard is also a bit of an extreme, being one of the most prestigious and second most selective university in the US.