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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Second DePaul. Also WashU, Pitt, Emory, Tufts, Boston College.[/quote]

WashU and Tufts are about as tough admits as Northwestern.  Second DePaul, Pitt, Emory, Boston College.  Also Boston University and University of Portland if willing to go West Coast.[/quote]

WashU and Tufts certainly are selective, but their acceptance rates at 13% and 15% respectively are quite lower than Northwestern’s 6.8%.[/quote]

Yes but their admitted students stats are higher.  The thing is now that students have so much data they can more carefully target their applications more to where their stats match.  There are fewer students the higher you go up the stats ladder so it ends up slightly lessening the total number of applicants slightly among selective schools.  So if OP says Northwestern is a stretch bc of stats, then WashU and Tufts are harder admits.  If it's because it's a stretch for everyone due to single digit admits and OP falls within the top 50% percentile of Wash U and Tufts then maybe they are easier admits, but maybe not. [/quote]

I don't know a single person who would consider WashU or Tufts harder to gain entrance into than Northwestern. I assume avg stats for Northwestern are pushed lower by athletes since it's a DI school. I added WashU and Tufts because they may offer similar environments to what OP is looking for and tend to be less selective in my experience. Both schools are great and I don't mean to offend.[/quote]

You didn't offend--I don't have any personal attachment to either school.  But I analyze higher ed data admissions data for part of my job and there is this trend among highly selective schools of schools with higher average stats ending up with higher acceptance rates because it's easy for students to see whether or not they will be accepted/rejected and not apply.  Highly selective schools with wider bands encourage more applications.  It's a relatively new (trending over the past decade) and interesting phenomenon.  There are now many cases where a school with a higher acceptance rate is actually harder to get into than one with a lower acceptance rate because of the range of people who are applying.  Athletes don't tend to move the margins much on the mean at any school. [/quote]

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