<p>I got into cornell and Wash U...but got rej from NW...How is this possible? Lets hope harvard and PENN dont view me the same way NW did.</p>
<p>What made you think that is impossible? I don't understand.</p>
<p>wash u is much harder to get into that nw is and i havent met anyone yet who got into wash u but not nw other than me. there are a ton of ppl who got into nw but got wait listed or rej from wash u. Its sorta like harvards yale in a way</p>
<p>if you look at numbers.
Wash u got 21000 apps and took a fraction to get down to a class of 1350</p>
<p>NW got 16000 apps and took a fraction get down to a class of 1650 or thereabouts</p>
<p>sheer numbers say that its much harder to get into wash u
look at college selectivity rankings</p>
<p>Really? I remember seeing a lot of other people posting that they didn't get into NU, but got into Wash U. I don't think it's "much harder" to get into wash u than NU.</p>
<p>What Eazy said is true - their class is 1350. But Wash U has only a 25% matriculation rate, which means they have to accept four times that many to achieve their class of 1350. So, in actuality, Northwestern's admit rate is drastically more competitive.</p>
<p>According to their 2005 college rankings
NW and Wash U are both at 11</p>
<p>However...
NW has an acceptance rate of 33% whereas Wash U is only 20%</p>
<p>NWs selectivity rank is 18 whereas Wash U's is 8...</p>
<p>your yields may be faulty...what are your sources?</p>
<p>Total applicants: 14,137
Total acceptances: 4,702
Total freshman enrollment: 1,941</p>
<p>Matriculation: 41.3 %</p>
<p>Total applicants: 20,378
Total acceptances: 4,080
Total freshman enrollment: 1,367</p>
<p>Matriculation: 33.5 %</p>
<p>Your data isnt entirely correct pal...sorry there is a difference but not "drastic"</p>
<p>For regular decision, NU's acceptance rate is not 33%. Overall, NU accepts 4,000 out of 16,000 applicants. For ED, several thousand applied and only 400-500 were accepted. That leaves 3,500 to be accepted out of 14,000 applicants in RD. That comes down to a 25% acceptance rate or so.</p>
<p>Your data isn't entirely correct, either.</p>
<p>Eazy, according to you, a person who has gotten into Harvard has to be accepted to every single college. That is a complete BS!!</p>
<p>this data isnt compiled by me icy moon...talk to us news and tell them their data is wrong. Unfortunately for you...even with your "revisions" NW still has a higher admissions rate than Wash U...still doesnt prove your point...womp womp. If you calculate the same numbers in for Wash U, im sure the acceptance rate drops even more as well. Come again.</p>
<p>Clearly this is from last years admissions statistics however, it is still valid because admissions stats fluctuations are minute. </p>
<p>Cant wait to go to college:
A very solid amount of students who are accepted to harvard are accepted everywhere else...sad but true story.</p>
<p>I have a friend was accepted at MIT, but waitlisted at Wash U. Her dad was a professor at Wash U for several years and I believe also got a degree from there. Go figure.</p>
<p>Krazy Kow</p>
<p>Thats crazy...MIT is a ridiculously good school. Another testimony to prove my point.</p>
<p>My point is that Wash U isn't "much harder" to get into than Wash U. Like you said, they are both ranked at 11, and I don't think a difference in admissions rate of 5% means Wash. U is "much harder" to get into.</p>
<p>However, the reason I posted those revisions was to show that your numbers weren't correct either, so yes, it did prove that you were wrong.</p>
<p>All I can say is that I don't think one is necessarily easier to get into, they're both great schools, and I don't think your NU rejection is a certain indicator of your Harvard and Penn applications.</p>
<p>One example of someone who got waitlisted at Wash U and accepted at MIT is hardly sufficient to judge a school's selectivity. I think we can all generally agree that MIT is harder to get into than Wash U. and that what happened to your friend doesn't happen to most people.</p>
<p>Oh, I wasn't trying to claim that Wash U. is hard to get in. I think she may have been one of the many people with high stats to get waitlisted at Wash U in an effort to improve yield rates or something. I was trying to say that funky things happen, and you just have to live with them. College admissions are a crapshoot.</p>
<p>Northwestern is much more self-selective than Washington. It uses the common app! That's why the acceptance rate is so low. Why do you think Harvard and Yale's acceptance rate is so low?</p>
<p>Sorry if you thought my comments were directed to you, KrazyKow, I was talking to EazyE914, who is the one trying to claim that Wash. U. is much harder to get in. I agree, college admissions is a crapshoot.. I always hear of incidents where someone gets accepted to Yale, for example, but gets rejected by a significantly lower-ranked school.</p>
<p>wow, someone sounds kind of bitter. maybe cornell and wash u saw something in you that northwestern did not see. maybe it just wasn't the greatest day for the admissions officer who read your file. your potential acceptances/rejections at harvard and penn are definitely not jeopardized by your northwestern acceptances, but please remember that many people (myself included) did get into northwestern and we are happy that our achievements were recognized. i'm sorry that northwestern didn't accept you, but it seems as though you would be much happier elsewhere. please don't denigrate a school and the people it chooses to accept, by bringing up things like matriculation rates and whatnot. we like northwestern for better reasons than "it has a low acceptance rate."</p>
<p>good luck to you; i hope that you'll learn to love whatever school you end up at for more than just its admissions statistics.</p>
<p>i agree, college admissions is a crapshoot; i got into wash u and rejected from nu and for all that talk about how it is important to show interest in wash u or you will get waitlisted...i showed none and got in whereas i showed definite interest in nu and was rejected <em>shrugs</em></p>
<p>colleges put different weights on different parts of your application. What college A is looking for isn't necessarily at the top of college B's priorities. It makes no sense to try and compare.</p>
<p>just look at it this way, at top colleges, no matter what your stats, the dividing line between in and not-in always has a huge gray area, with only a tiny percentage of students (not you) who are pretty much gonna get in everywhere, and a tiny percentage who have no reason to be applying to places like wustl and NU... your in the gray area, its a crapshoot for all of us.</p>