<p>Another thought is “yield”. They don’t think kids that qualified for interviews at HPME would come to Northwestern.</p>
<p>Hope yield is the cause! Out of 140 interviewees, there are only 50 offers. NU might think, or according to previous experience, these 90 (plus 20-25 turn down HPME) applicants are less likely to come. For size of 2000 of entering freshman class, these ~100 turn downs will hurt their yield by 5%!!</p>
<p>Makes sense.</p>
<p>My real concern is whether or not this means I am surely rejected from HPME. But from the looks of it, it looks like I am :(</p>
<p>same happened to my D. She was invited to attend interview for HPME but got waitlisted for undergrad.</p>