Wustl vs Northwestern

Sam_Lee
Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:49:13 +0000

Well, both NU and Wustl are using waitlist this year. NU counts all the ones off the waitlist as “accepted”, just like anyone would expect. WashU? I was told by couple people who got the phone call but declined the offers that their status stayed “waitlisted”. So it seems to me that among those waitlists who got the acceptace calls, only those who accepted the offers were officially counted as “accepted” (100% yield). Will that change the admit rate much? It depends on how many waitlists they call? A Chicago Sun Times article said NU estimated 400 people would get off the waitlist. Based on what I saw on CC, it seems like WashU is calling even more people than that. You can do the math between the difference of 100% yield and something like 10% yield. Regardless, to me, this practice, if it’s true for all others (right now I have had 2 people confirming this cos I didn’t really ask more), is disgusting!