<p>Can anyone elaborate on upstream’s comment? </p>
<p>"There is a strong correlation of Wash U acceptance with that of Cornell, Northwestern and U of Chicago. "</p>
<p>What does he mean by this?</p>
<p>@johnkim614</p>
<p>That means that if you are accepted into Wash U then there is high probability that you will also be accepted into Cornell, Northwestern and U of Chicago. In other words, those colleges are in par with each other in terms of acceptance. That correlation is not as strong with Wash U with Duke and Columbia. If you are accepted into Wash U, you might have some chance of being accepted into Duke or Columbia. Please take this information with a grain of salt since this observation was made from the past 3 years of college acceptance trend from a highly regarded high school. </p>
<p>@upstream</p>
<p>Very interesting. Is this mere speculation or has this trend be observed enough times to assume that you have a much greater chance of getting in to NW/Chicago if you got in to WashU? Could be a coincidence, after all. Are you suggesting that there is potential collusion going on behind the scenes?</p>
<p>Curious because I got In to WashU and am finding out about UChicago tomorrow. Though this means I have a lower chance for Duke :(</p>
<p>Tomorrow will be an Interesting Day since UChicago is announcing the RD results. Lets see students who get Rejected or Waitlisted at WUSTL get the same Results at UC. I kind of agree with the Theory that who get Waitlisted or Rejected at WUSTL will have the same result at UC, NorthWestern and Cornell but their are always exceptions to these rules… I read a poster this yr or last that a student got rejected at WUSTL but was accepted ED or EA at UChicago, </p>
<p>I got into UChicago EA and into WUSTL ED so it is possible.</p>
<p>If you get into WUSTL as ED dont they tell you to rescind your applications to all other Schools. </p>
<p>Indeed.</p>
<p>@johnkim614</p>
<p>I don’t think there is any collusion behind a scene, but rather different colleges try to achieve their ideal student composition without jeopardizing their national rankings.
I just calculated from the past 3 years of college admissions data from my son’s school.</p>
<p>For those students who have been ACCEPTED to Wash U AND applied to the following colleges, the correlations are as follow:</p>
<p>HYP: 0% (0/13)// (0/15)
Columbia: 29% ( 2/7)
Brown: 43% (3/4) // 33% (3/6)<br>
Duke: 30% (3/10) // 25% (3/12)<br>
Dartmouth: 0% (0/6) // (0/9)
Northwestern: 42% (5/12) // 31% (5/16)<br>
U of CHICAGO: 70% (7/10)// 69% (9/13)<br>
Cornell: 67% (6/9)// 60% (6/10)<br>
U Penn: 0% (0/5)</p>
<p>The first %s are calculated with students with GPA above 92.99%, and the second %s are calculated with all data, including students with GPA below 93 %.</p>
<p>I guess I need to throw in Brown as well along with U of C, Cornell and Northwestern, especially for the students with GPA > 93%.
It’s also interesting to note that U of C is kind to students below 93% GPA.
If anyone is interested, I can look up the data on students who got waitlisted from Wash U and correlate that with acceptance pattern to the above colleges. The above data only relates to the students who got admitted to Wash U.</p>
<p>Interesting data, but is it really safe to assume that such a correlation even exists with such a small sample size? Sure it might be 70%, but only 10 people were recorded…</p>
<p>@upstream can you post some data on Waitlist also, thanks for posting, its good to know what stats are between these schools.</p>
<p>HYP is very interesting with 0%, I would love to see Rice and Stanford too…</p>
<p>@johnkim614</p>
<p>10 appears to be a small sample size, but that number is very specific to the question that was posed.<br>
In some instances, the sample size is not as important as the relevant sample, albeit small in number. For example, the overall acceptance rate of this high school students to Wash U during the RD was 14.6% (28/192), however the acceptance rate for the students with GPA of 93 or higher was 26.5 % (22/83). Even though 83 is much smaller sample size than 192, using 83 would give more relevant or accurate admissions information, especially for the CC audience. </p>
<p>@dadfor2014</p>
<p>Which waitlist ? I need a specific college to give the data set.
I will calculate Rice and Stanford later tonight.</p>
<p>^^ Waitlisted for WUSTL I mean. In comparison to UChicago, Northwestern, Cornell, etc… </p>
<p>@dadfor2014</p>
<p>Overall Wash U waitlisted students’ acceptance rate to U of Chicago was 20% (4/20)… however, for students with GPA > 95%, the acceptance rate was 66% (4/6) vs. for students with GPA < 95%, the acceptance rate was 0% (0/14). Any thoughts on this ?</p>
<p>66% of Students with GPA>95% dosent Fit in WUSTL program but they were good for U of Chicago. Either they have FA needs or may be a better Fit for UChicago…</p>
<p>I was waitlisted at washu rd but accepted to uchicago ea…wish I had gotten in though!</p>
<p>I think RD acceptance is more difficult than ED/EA. In apple to apple comparison (RD only), many students wanted to get in U Chicago over Wash U.</p>
<p>@upstream</p>
<p>How are you calculating this? And anything for Stanford?</p>
<p>I got into WashU but I’m waitlisted for UChicago. Ugh. Feel like killing myself</p>
<p>Then you are incredibly ungrateful. Lighten the heck up. @ivyleaguefan</p>
<p>I got accepted to both WashU and Chicago. I have no idea how that happened but it just proves that these kinds of things are totally impossible to predict. </p>