Brown bs Northwestern

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northwestern is a safety for kids targeting Brown (and Penn).

NU has a 9% acceptance rate. Do you even realize how stupid you are?

Your obsession with acceptance rate makes you a dummy. It's gamed, it's all marketing.

Northwestern is not like Rice or UChicago in massively sending out publications and the like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northwestern is a safety for kids targeting Brown (and Penn).

NU has a 9% acceptance rate. Do you even realize how stupid you are?

Your obsession with acceptance rate makes you a dummy. It's gamed, it's all marketing.

Northwestern is not like Rice or UChicago in massively sending out publications and the like.

My DD got a ton of mail from Northwestern and UChicago, but almost nothing from Rice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northwestern is a safety for kids targeting Brown (and Penn).

NU has a 9% acceptance rate. Do you even realize how stupid you are?

Your obsession with acceptance rate makes you a dummy. It's gamed, it's all marketing.

Northwestern is not like Rice or UChicago in massively sending out publications and the like.

lol, are you joking? yes they are!

[Anonymous]

We have gotten one email from NU- that's it. The schools which have spammed us are Yale, WashU, Swarthmore, Rice, Vanderbilt, UChicago, Tulane, Emory, and some others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northwestern is a safety for kids targeting Brown (and Penn).

Penn and Northwestern are quite similar, and Penn is clearly superior in practically all aspects, so yes NU is most often a secondary choice for kids targeting Penn. Stanford and Penn are also very similar, but Stanford is superior in most aspects, so Penn is most often a secondary choice for kids targeting Penn.

However, Brown is a very different school to NU (and Penn). There is some applicant overlap between Brown and Penn because they are ivies but I cant imagine there is huge overlap in applicants with NU. Btw Brown is marginally more desirable or prestigious than NU. It is near the very bottom of the ivies. The only ivy consistently considered below Brown is Cornell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northwestern is a safety for kids targeting Brown (and Penn).

Penn and Northwestern are quite similar, and Penn is clearly superior in practically all aspects, so yes NU is most often a secondary choice for kids targeting Penn. Stanford and Penn are also very similar, but Stanford is superior in most aspects, so Penn is most often a secondary choice for kids targeting Stanford.

However, Brown is a very different school to NU (and Penn). There is some applicant overlap between Brown and Penn because they are ivies but I cant imagine there is huge overlap in applicants with NU. Btw Brown is marginally more desirable or prestigious than NU. It is near the very bottom of the ivies. The only ivy consistently considered below Brown is Cornell.

[Anonymous]

Northwestern ED stats are in, according to today's Daily Northwestern. Admitted 54% of its class ED - good luck getting in RD. Along with Penn, forcing students to apply ED if they want to go there. It's a valid enrollment strategy, but feels calculating.


Northwestern received a record number of applications in both the Early Decision and regular applicant pools, and anticipates a decline in acceptance rates for both groups, University officials told The Daily. After receiving the most Early Decision applications in its history this year, the University admitted 1,072 early applicants into the class of 2022 on Dec. 14.... Early applications for first-year students totaled 4,049, making the Early Decision acceptance rate about 26 percent. This is slightly down from last year’s Early Decision acceptance rate of 28 percent, Mills said. The number of students admitted through Early Decision represents another record high for the school, a University spokesman told The Daily in an email. NU is targeting an incoming class of 1,925 first-year students, Mills said, and projects that around 54 percent of that class will be filled by the newly-admitted early applicants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northwestern ED stats are in, according to today's Daily Northwestern. Admitted 54% of its class ED - good luck getting in RD. Along with Penn, forcing students to apply ED if they want to go there. It's a valid enrollment strategy, but feels calculating.


Northwestern received a record number of applications in both the Early Decision and regular applicant pools, and anticipates a decline in acceptance rates for both groups, University officials told The Daily. After receiving the most Early Decision applications in its history this year, the University admitted 1,072 early applicants into the class of 2022 on Dec. 14.... Early applications for first-year students totaled 4,049, making the Early Decision acceptance rate about 26 percent. This is slightly down from last year’s Early Decision acceptance rate of 28 percent, Mills said. The number of students admitted through Early Decision represents another record high for the school, a University spokesman told The Daily in an email. NU is targeting an incoming class of 1,925 first-year students, Mills said, and projects that around 54 percent of that class will be filled by the newly-admitted early applicants.

I'd agree and it obviously serves the interests of the University at the significant expense of the applicants. But if everybody is doing it, what can they do. I think we're going to see a significant easing of admission rates in the next 5-7 years and it will be interesting to see how colleges respond.

[Anonymous]

All these threads are full of people talking out of their ass. Most of Stanford is California kids. Penn isn't their #2 choice, Berkeley and UCLA are.

[Anonymous]

Such an unfortunate typo in the thread subject line.