<p>Just seeing how everyone feels about the switch and how you think it will affect the school. Personally, I think our pool of applicants will be stronger and this will help the school and students who may otherwise have difficulty applying here.</p>
<p>also will reduce yield though, don't forget</p>
<p>Why do you think this will reduce the yield? Im not really familiar with many of the influences on the yield.</p>
<p>more people who are applying to, say, harvard, will think at the last minute "hey i might as well send my application to northwestern," will send it to northwestern, be accepted, but when it's not actually their first choice school, just a "i might as well" thought, they will not end up attending. There will be many, many students like this and this will decrease yield.</p>
<p>it will actually decrease yield for all universities accepting the common app, and even those who are not, since it encourages kids to apply to many more schools. So while northwestern will have stronger and more applicants, they will have to accept a higher % of them to compensate for the students lost to the yield so selectivity might not actually increase.</p>
<p>Now, if like we were talking about in the other post, northwestern would start offering merit aid, it might be another story.</p>
<p>Good call...Do you think the common app will eventually help NU and students in general, hurt it, or not do a damn thing?</p>
<p>i'd assume they probably see it as helping them, or they wouldn't do it. Uchicago doesn't accept the common app and look at their acceptance rate: 40%, and they still have only about a 30% yield or something.</p>
<p>I guess what I think is that the increase in applicants (due to accepting the common app) will outweigh the decrease in yield. So i suppose i think it WILL actually help.</p>
<p>I don’t think it will matter much. I don’t see an increase in applicants as anything all that spectacular. More people apply to the school, so what? I was actually glad that Northwestern didn’t accept the common app it showed that the school had some sort of spine. This new development, however, is just the latest of many sellouts by the university. Also, Northwestern's yield (minus ED), is still in the 30% range. So, NU's yield is pretty much the same as Chicago's.</p>
<p>Northwestern's yield is in the low 40's.</p>
<p>That is the yield with ED included. Without ED it is in the low to mid 30’s. I don't believe colleges should include ED when calculating yield, as it skews the stat making the yields look larger than they actually are. </p>
<p>Also, Chicago does not have ED, only EA, so it’s unfair to compare the two without first removing Northwestern’s ED students. I’m sure Chicago’s yield would also rise if it had 100% yield protected students in the mix too.</p>