Comments on: Breaking down NU’s record admissions season

By: gh

gh — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:22:13 +0000

SAT’s are being dumbed down, GPa’s are being subject to grade inflation, consequently avg SAT score of those admitted is going up. This also creates a problem/ opportunity for admissions officers in making rational evaluations and also leaves them free to gerrymander.

By: Tom Giratikanon

Tom Giratikanon — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:48:39 +0000

We certainly stand by our story, which was based on an interview with Associate Provost Michael Mills as well as on public data.

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions reports that the admit rate for the Class of 2011 was 26 percent, which is slightly higher than this year’s: http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/freshman/facts. The Office of Institutional Research has the raw data — http://www.adminplan.northwestern.edu/ir/databook/#admissions — which confirms that the admit rate has dropped since last year.

When we asked Mills directly about this year’s acceptance rate, he e-mailed back and said, “The acceptance rate is an all-time low.”

By: urdumb

urdumb — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:56:50 +0000

Why is this in direct conflict with the Daily’s article that says the admit rate went up from last year to this year? One of you guys is wrong…