Northwestern Waitlist Thread

[veenut]

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I just withdrew my acceptance, maybe it'll get one of you in

 

[eastsidaz]

I just withdrew my acceptance, maybe it'll get one of you in

Word! Too bad I'm on Emory's waitlist too... 😎

 

[pnasty]

I just withdrew my acceptance, maybe it'll get one of you in

nice

 

[45408]

I just withdrew my acceptance, maybe it'll get one of you in

Yes, me please. 😀😀😀

 

[girlMD03]

So there's definitely been some movement - the secretary told me today that there had been, but that they were expecting more as they got closer to May 15th.

 

[hanjoko]

So there's definitely been some movement - the secretary told me today that there had been, but that they were expecting more as they got closer to May 15th.

"some movement"? Does that mean that there are people who have already got off the waitlist?? Or does it mean that there are some spots open...??

I am getting more and more nervous as May 15th approaches...

 

[pnasty]

So there's definitely been some movement - the secretary told me today that there had been, but that they were expecting more as they got closer to May 15th.

im not sure if this means people have gotten in or that people are withdrawing. last week when i asked if anyone had gotten in off the waitlist she said no and there prob wont be until late may or early june....did you ask about movement or someone getting in?

it doesnt matter too much. probably even a good sign if people are getting in already

 

[eastsidaz]

im not sure if this means people have gotten in or that people are withdrawing. last week when i asked if anyone had gotten in off the waitlist she said no and there prob wont be until late may or early june....did you ask about movement or someone getting in?

it doesnt matter too much. probably even a good sign if people are getting in already

When I called, she clearly made it sound like there had been movement off the waitlist--as in, people getting in who weren't in already.

 

[luhando]

So there's definitely been some movement - the secretary told me today that there had been, but that they were expecting more as they got closer to May 15th.

i think she was talking about people withdrawing. if it was people getting off the waitlist...she would have said that there would be more activity AFTER may 15, but she said there would be more movement as we approach may 15. i think this signifies people withdrawing.

 

[wildcat05]

So I specifically asked the secretary today if there had been people accepted off of the waitlist since there has been so much confusion with the word "movement", and she said there have been "a few acceptances."

 

[SmoothNC]

So I specifically asked the secretary today if there had been people accepted off of the waitlist since there has been so much confusion with the word "movement", and she said there have been "a few acceptances."

When I called in today, I asked the same thing....and she confirmed that people have been accepted off the waitlist and then went on to tell me that there has been no change in my status....damn.

 

[pnasty]

could be good news if, like lizzy said, every withdrawl from now on is a waitlist acceptance

 

[hanjoko]

When I called in today, I asked the same thing....and she confirmed that people have been accepted off the waitlist and then went on to tell me that there has been no change in my status....damn.

somehow I got the feeling that the waitlist is ranked...even though they say it is not. 🙁

 

[pnasty]

i just got an email from Feinberg saying that by May 15th those people who have acceptances will choose their school, and they hope to accommodate students off the waitlist

so even if it hasnt yet, it will be moving soon i guess

 

[SmoothNC]

i just got an email from Feinberg saying that by May 15th those people who have acceptances will choose their school, and they hope to accommodate students off the waitlist

so even if it hasnt yet, it will be moving soon i guess

Yes, I read that e-mail....I'm sure all waitlisted students got it......and I have some insider info...will not divulge the source and the admissions office won't tell you this...but apparently Dean Brown asked the committee to pick the top 15 applicants on the waitlist from each geographical region, and they will go to those waitlisted students first....everyone else is grouped below...they say its unranked, but I bet it is....oh well, good luck to everyone.

 

[pnasty]

Yes, I read that e-mail....I'm sure all waitlisted students got it......and I have some insider info...will not divulge the source and the admissions office won't tell you this...but apparently Dean Brown asked the committee to pick the top 15 applicants on the waitlist from each geographical region, and they will go to those waitlisted students first....everyone else is grouped below...they say its unranked, but I bet it is....oh well, good luck to everyone.

im not sure how many geographical regions there are, but 15 for each is gonna be a lot of people. does geographical region mean like northeast, southeast, midwest, etc? i guess if you arent in the top 15 of your region chances are pretty slim...?

 

[SmoothNC]

im not sure how many geographical regions there are, but 15 for each is gonna be a lot of people. does geographical region mean like northeast, southeast, midwest, etc? i guess if you arent in the top 15 of your region chances are pretty slim...?

I have no idea how many regions there are....and yes I agree, chances look pretty slim.....I guess this is the first year they did this......I'm not getting my hopes up.

 

[girlMD03]

Yeah but if they offer 15 spots from each geographical region it doesn't mean that all 15 of those people will accept their offer, or that some of those people won't accept it and then end up withdrawing when they get off another waitlist. Ahh! This is making me so nervous! It does seem pretty daunting if you're not in the top 15. And what if more people withdraw from 1 region...ok, i'm going to stop because there are so many possibilities that this is just ridiculous to even try to think about!

 

[eastsidaz]

I have no idea how many regions there are....and yes I agree, chances look pretty slim.....I guess this is the first year they did this......I'm not getting my hopes up.

I'm guessing it's pretty straightforward--west, midwest, east. Not sure where the borders for this would be, but you can get the general idea--people from Ivies/Amherst/Duke etc are East, undergrads from NU/UChicago/UWisc/UMich/etc are Midwest, and undergrads from the UCs are West.

The Midwest pool is likely, if not largest, most competitive.

 

[pnasty]

The Midwest pool is likely, if not largest, most competitive.

Great 👎


I wonder what the incentive for sending us that email was....when I first got it and hadnt read it yet I thought it was an early rejection hahaha. We all call every week anyways, why did they tell us they are putting in a snack shop in the Lurie building?

 

[eastsidaz]

Yes, I read that e-mail....I'm sure all waitlisted students got it......and I have some insider info...will not divulge the source and the admissions office won't tell you this...but apparently Dean Brown asked the committee to pick the top 15 applicants on the waitlist from each geographical region, and they will go to those waitlisted students first....everyone else is grouped below...they say its unranked, but I bet it is....oh well, good luck to everyone.

Um so...hate to be the one to say it, but this means there IS, for all intents and purposes, a ranked waitlist, despite what they told us. Which means they lied outright to everyone whom they told otherwise.

Does anyone else find the blatant dishonesty a bit troubling? I mean, I hate to rant, but I've seen this at school after school. My mother always told me to tell the truth no matter what--why are gainfully employed adults willing to lie for a minor gain in convenience? I realize people would try to figure out their rank and hassle the admissions office more, but does this justify dishonesty? It's not even like they misled us or tricked us...they just told us a bald-faced lie. And not just once, but to every applicant who inquired.

Ok, I'll get off my soapbox. I'm just saying, is all.

 

[pnasty]

Um so...hate to be the one to say it, but this means there IS, for all intents and purposes, a ranked waitlist, despite what they told us. Which means they lied outright to everyone whom they told otherwise.

Does anyone else find the blatant dishonesty a bit troubling? I mean, I hate to rant, but I've seen this at school after school. My mother always told me to tell the truth no matter what--why are gainfully employed adults willing to lie for a minor gain in convenience? I realize people would try to figure out their rank and hassle the admissions office more, but does this justify dishonesty? It's not even like they misled us or tricked us...they just told us a bald-faced lie. And not just once, but to every applicant who inquired.

Ok, I'll get off my soapbox. I'm just saying, is all.

yeah i know what you mean. even if smoothnc is wrong, someone said before that they for sure have a priority list. its like my parents always say, its better to be the chooser than the choosed. nothing we can really do now tho. it seems kinda silly to let people in off the waitlist based on what part of the country they are from, but i guess there must be some reason for it

 

[45408]

im not sure how many geographical regions there are, but 15 for each is gonna be a lot of people. does geographical region mean like northeast, southeast, midwest, etc? i guess if you arent in the top 15 of your region chances are pretty slim...?

I hope my region (midwest) doesn't have too many people in it! LET ME IN!! 😀

eastsidaz - how do you figure the midwest is the hardest? I'd think the regions with Cali students or Ivy students would be the most competitive.

 

[eastsidaz]

I hope my region (midwest) doesn't have too many people in it! LET ME IN!! 😀

eastsidaz - how do you figure the midwest is the hardest? I'd think the regions with Cali students or Ivy students would be the most competitive.

Probably more applicants from the midwest, so when they're creating an applicant pool, it's toughest to get an interview as a Midwesterner.

Hmm...maybe this means that by this point everything is even...unless, of course, they interview way more Midwesterners. Also, it seems to me that Midwesterners are less likely to withdraw and go to the coasts instead--so if they wanted a balanced class, they'd have to pull more people from the coasts off the waitlist. But heck, half the list is probably Northwestern undergrads anyway.

 

[45408]

I doubt they're looking for more NU students - they've got the HPME bringing several dozen in as it is.

 

[slmsmith]

It is highly likely that the applicants who were just below the cut off for getting offers (and therefore on the waitlist) will have offers at other schools and that many of them will withdraw from NU's waitlist because they got into a school that they like better than NU.

If you looked at the list of schools represented on interview day, or talked to the applicants in the waiting room with you, you might have noticed that East Coast schools are well-represented and West Coast schools under-represented with Midwest schools in the middle (if you'll pardon the pun).

are they dividing it up by the region your undergrad school is in or the region that you're from originally (your home state)? this process is so complicated!!!

 

[abc(123)]

withdrew my acceptance two days ago (east coast) -- luck to y'all.

 

[girlMD03]

are they dividing it up by the region your undergrad school is in or the region that you're from originally (your home state)? this process is so complicated!!!

I was wondering the same thing.

 

[eastsidaz]

The geographic designation is by undergrad institution, not home state. On interview day you might have noticed that the files that the individual interviewer had on the desk were different colors... each region has a different color file folder.

I wonder if there is an attempt to even things out once applicants are taken from the waitlist. That is, if the incoming class looks imbalanced (only 44% male, for example) if there wouldn't be some effort to make offers to men who had expressed continued interest in an attempt to even things out (NU is usually about 48-52 one way or the other from year to year). This might apply by geographic region too but maybe not. I do think that it comes down to expressing an interest as per my earlier posts a la Jane Austin.

😍 I love you, Lizzy. 😍

 

[slmsmith]

The geographic designation is by undergrad institution, not home state. On interview day you might have noticed that the files that the individual interviewer had on the desk were different colors... each region has a different color file folder.

I wonder if there is an attempt to even things out once applicants are taken from the waitlist. That is, if the incoming class looks imbalanced (only 44% male, for example) if there wouldn't be some effort to make offers to men who had expressed continued interest in an attempt to even things out (NU is usually about 48-52 one way or the other from year to year). This might apply by geographic region too but maybe not. I do think that it comes down to expressing an interest as per my earlier posts a la Jane Austin.

wow. thanks!

 

[45408]

🙁 I got another e-mail from NU, in response to one I had sent, and it says that they don't look at the alternate list until mid-June. 🙁 My fiancee needs to start working as a nurse by the first or second week in July, and we need to move in somewhere as well. I'd REALLY like to find out no later than June 1.....I had originally told the fiancee that I plan to make my final decision right around that date. 🙁 I hope they're just being guarded in when their response will be (aka, "We'll let you know your status by the end of February," and then they told us we were waitlisted by Valentine's).

 

[pnasty]

It doesnt make sense for them to wait any longer than they need to because they want the spots filled quickly. They also need to make sure that if someone turns them down they have enough time to get to teh next person. I would say the second they have spots open, they will begin to let people in. (Of course I could be wrong.) Plus, isn't the word that they already have let people in?

 

[eastsidaz]

Another bizarre twist. I wish everything didn't have to be so secret agent-like--remember the status page updates in February? And how we debate what the word "movement" means? And then NU telling Prowler that they won't look at the list until mid-June, when they just told us that they're starting to look at it and will do so more around May 15. Maybe they just enjoy toying with us...

 

[45408]

pnasty, I highly doubt anyone has come off the waitlist just yet, but by next week, it wouldn't surprise me at all.

 

[wildcat05]

if no one has come off of the waitlist yet why would the secretary say that people have? I specifically asked if people have been accepted off of the waitlist and she said yes, there have been a few acceptances.

 

[45408]

🙁 I have no idea. I'm just hoping for them to call up and say "Haha, we were just toying with you. Here's a full scholarship."

 

[girlMD03]

thanks for all the info! hopefully someone on sdn will get off the waitlist soon and then we'll know for sure that it's moving!

 

[pnasty]

No early morning phone calls today 🙁

 

[girlMD03]

no movement, huh?

 

[eastsidaz]

This is excruciating.

 

[luhando]

She said they expect to *start* moving within the next couple weeks. NU likes to be cryptic...so lets see what happens. GL everyone.

 

[keedz]

So, I called today and the lady said that there has been no waitlist movement as of yesterday. And also, she took my NAME only instead of my aamc id which she always did.....strange.

 

[luhando]

So, I called today and the lady said that there has been no waitlist movement as of yesterday. And also, she took my NAME only instead of my aamc id which she always did.....strange.

She's done that to me before. I think she likes to change it up just to make her life somewhat interesting...and she's probably sick of saying AAMC. What were they thinking putting two As in a row? I couldn't imagine having to put up with what she does, so I don't blame her.

 

[girlMD03]

WHY are they so shady?! I mean they are blatantly lying to us. I also called today and was told that there ha been a little bit of movement but not much, and they're expecting more in the next couple of weeks.
I do feel bad for them though! I seriously considered asking her if she was getting sick of getting calls from waitlisters every day...must suck, but hey - not our idea to have us calling every week!

 

[hanjoko]

hm...maybe there are two secretaries...you know, one that asks for AAMC and says there has not been any movement while the other asks for the name and says there is some...

I do not think they will intentionally *lie* to us...what benefits can they get by lying to us though? Perhaps it is hard for them to tell when / if the movement starts...?

 

[pnasty]

There are actually three secretaries that answer the phone (that I know of), so that may lead to some confusion I suppose. I also called today and was told there has been no movement off of the waitlist yet. I know that there has been MSTP waitlist movement, so maybe that is confusing them?

 

[wildcat05]

lol I called today and she said there has been some movement.

 

[pnasty]

oh well, i give up....all i know for sure is it hasnt been me!

 

[luhando]

There are actually three secretaries that answer the phone (that I know of), so that may lead to some confusion I suppose. I also called today and was told there has been no movement off of the waitlist yet. I know that there has been MSTP waitlist movement, so maybe that is confusing them?

I think you're right. It has been MSTP movement...no real movement.

 

[slmsmith]

I think you're right. It has been MSTP movement...no real movement.

i think it has just been MSTP movement because i did a search on mdapplicants, and the only ppl who say that they got off the waitlist are MSTP applicants. this may or may not be accurate, but that's what i found.