<p>Meh, I trying not to let WashU's waitlist drag me down. It's just a bad for for college applicants considering that the class of 2013 is a large class and the financial aspects are all going downward.
Still, I have four more decisions to hear until I have to make a decision</p>
<p>I'm a little worried that I won't get the NU email since I never actually got an email from WashU - I found out that decisions were up online. Did this happen to anyone else?</p>
<p>WashU sent emails AFTER the decisions were up online.
My roommate who got into NU ED got his decision thru e-mail, so you'll definitely getting the NU e-mail.</p>
<p>I didn't get an email from WUSTL. Probably because I got waitlisted though...</p>
<p>super_leader, I got into wustl, but I didn't get an email before checking online either. And you guys know that admissions to any college has a certain amount of luck factor in it, so don't be too let down by this.</p>
<p>I got into WUSTL, but I only found out by checking CC. I was actually the one to tell six of my friends that decisions were up. Like estheri says, admissions are highly subjective in any top-tier college. To accept all the qualified people, they'd have to have a class of like 4000.</p>
<p>Hey all.
I applied ED to Northwestern, and every ED applicant was having the same problem with finding out admissions. I got an e-mail saying, "Decisions are online. Click this link to review your decision." Then I got my acceptance letter 2 days later in the mail.
Northwestern is pretty good about contacting its applicants, so don't worry, NU will make sure you find out your decision.
Go Wildcats!</p>
<p>For those who got waitlisted by WashU, your chance of getting into Northwestern is higher. The admit rate at WashU is deflated by the "under accept, over waitlist" strategy. In effect, WashU hasn't really made the decsions yet for many candidates but the "default" waitlist is given to guage their interest (whether they choose to stay on the list or not) and then make another round of decisions if necessarily. Your chance is higher at NU and in most cases, your outcome would be either acceptance or rejection.</p>
<p>guys, talk about Wash U on Wash U's thread. This is for northwestern...</p>
<p>Anyways do all of you guys have login information for northwestern's website? I applied in october or something like that, they contacted me for an interview, and I still don't have login information.</p>
<p>i got an email too, a long time ago with i think an id number but i believe theres no actual log in account for northwestern</p>
<p><i>"For those who got waitlisted by WashU, your chance of getting into Northwestern is higher"</i></p>
<p>that is just dumb dude..a very broad generalization</p>
<p>^true but I really hope he is right.</p>
<p>I am happy with my waitlist from WashU. I always thought they would straight up reject a dumbass like me. I know they waitlist everyone, but still, I have been rejected from Rice Early Decision and Notre Dame Early Action with a 1470/2170 and a 3.8 unweighted gpa and a 4.3 weighted, (My class rank is top 20 percent)...I know I stand no chance at a school like NU, but now I know that Emory/Vandy are my only chances for a good college, the waitlist from WashU gives me a little hope for Vandy and Emory...</p>
<p>TheMan66,</p>
<p>Admission difficulty is all about generalization. What do you expect people here to do? Ask everyone copies of of their whole application files? WashU admit rate is lower; the two application pools overlap a lot and the stats are nearly identical. It doesn't take genius to know IN GENERAL Northwestern is slightly easier to get in. By the way, please have the courtesy to refrain from calling names. Not sure why you had such a problem when all I did was just trying to give people some support.</p>
<p>I will be honest, I might have taken your post the wrong way. You see, to me it seemed as though you were saying that if Wash U waitlisted one, it was because one was overqualified. This would allow one to get into Northwestern, because Northwestern doesn't play the "game" as much as Wash U does. Frankly I might have jumped to a conclusion because of all of this "Wash U waitlists overqualified applicants" stuff makes me feel like I wasn't qualified because I was accepted, which made me mad. I am sorry if that is not what you meant.</p>
<p>You may have merely been saying that Northwestern is very similar to Wash U when it comes to academics, but Northwestern's admit rate is much higher than Wash U's. Yes, I understand that Northwestern's admit rate is higher by the numbers, and therefore you possibly have a better chance of getting in (unless the applicant pool is self selective, then numbers don't tell you much).</p>
<p>My point was that you have a better chance at getting into Northwestern IN GENERAL, not because you were waitlisted. Every Wash U applicant that was not accepted was waitlisted, I know of no rejections. Thus you can't conclude that just because one was waitlisted, and that reason alone, one has a better chance of getting into Northwestern.</p>
<p>But it seems as though you were addressing the waitlistees, not conveying that that was a reason to be more likely to get into Northwestern. If you meant the former, I agree with you, but I disagree with the latter.</p>
<p>I never said anything about overqualification. I don't know where you got that idea. WashU might have waitlisted overqualified applicants as some people claim <em>elsewhere</em> but they waitlisted tons of those that are less qualified than the admits. There's absolutely no reason for me to assume the waitlistees on this board are the former. They never gave their stats here; nobody claimed he/she should have got into WashU either.</p>
<p>That's why I said I am sorry that I might have misunderstood your words.</p>
<p>Just FYI, WashU does reject people.</p>
<p>I'm still confused. Did "For those who got waitlisted by WashU, your chance of getting into Northwestern is higher" mean that:</p>
<p>a) If you were waitlisted at WashU, you have a better chance of getting into NU than those who were accepted at WashU.</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>b) If you were waitlisted at WashU, don't worry - you have a better chance of getting into NU than you did getting into WashU anyways.</p>
<p>?</p>
<p>ya'll are over analyzing this.</p>