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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Fiske Guide To Colleges shows that those who apply to Northwestern University most commonly apply to these schools as well:

Duke, Stanford, U Penn, Yale, U Michigan, Princeton, WashUStL, & Harvard. Of course, if admitted to Princeton, Harvard, or Stanford, the student will almost always pick one of these schools over Northwestern--but that is true for any school as well other than MIT and Yale.

College Transitions views Northwestern's overlap schools as:

Cornell, Duke, U Chicago, U Michigan, & U Penn.

While the Fiske Guide list is the actual overlap list of schools, College Transitions' list of "overlaps" is more realistic in the sense that a student accepted to all might likely select Northwestern as he/she would any school on this list (except if admitted to Penn's Wharton School of Business).[/quote]

DS got into and is attending Northwestern from the DMV (regular decision) and the DMV admitted students reception was decidedly not full of URM no matter what this board seems to think. A few but not a lot. Many Asians, however --East and South-- who are NOT under-represented at NU. Nevertheless, on admitted students day at NU it was pretty interesting how many of the same schools accepted everyone we talked to, regardless of region -- NU, Berkeley, Rice, Wash U, Emory, Duke, Michigan. Lots of  waitlisted at Columbia and Penn. No's at Princeton.[/quote]

Different than our experience. The only other school commonly mentioned was Stanford--to which none were admitted, but a few were waitlisted.[/quote]

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