Wustl vs Northwestern

elsijfdl
Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:39:05 +0000

Rest assured that other schools do it as well. Until WashU has a yield comparable to its peers (on USNews) and has a higher preference among the applicant pool in general, I don’t expect their practice to end.



this is, in fact, false.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=601105

northwestern: 23
washu: 65

washu’s admissions process is a total joke, just go around on CC and look at student’s posted decisions, washu waitlists everyone who is accepted to cornell, brown, northwestern, etc. because they know they are so far down on the “revealed preferences” list that those students will never end up actually attending.

it’s acceptance rate is so low because it artificially increases its yield via the waitlist (which, by the way washu is the ONLY SINGLE school that does not release data for)