Wustl vs Northwestern

Sam_Lee
Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:55:27 +0000

ST2,

I said “it seems”, suggesting speculation already, not “generalization”. My estimation is based on the fact there are more kids on CC saying they got off WashU’s waitlist than NU’s, despite the fact NU board has higher thread/post count.

By the way, you made a speculation yourself:



The number they are looking off WL is way way below the number you are quoting.



What was your speculation based on? You think it’s way lower than 400? Like 100? And out of those 100, we have over 20% as CC members that told the news here (more than 20 kids said they got the offers in a WashU’s waitlist thread)? Out of ~2400 admits at Stanford, probably no more than 100 posted their acceptance on CC. Somehow WashU admits are a lot more inclined to do that?

As to “Why not call the admission?”, they aren’t even done with the process yet. Also, even if they give me a number, I wonder if I should even take that as fact considering I already have two kids telling me their status remain unchanged. By the way, # of people off the waitlists is one of the data shown on common data set but WashU either doesn’t make it public or doesn’t have one.