As a Northwestern alum, I am always curious to know how NU ranks each year. For the most part it has hovered right outside the top 10 for over a decade. While that might seem like stagnation, recent admissions statistics prove that it has certainly become more competitive.
This year, Northwestern admitted only 18 percent of its 31,000 applicants, five percentage points lower than the previous year.
Northwestern is just another example of a top-tier school that has become more choosy as the applicant pool has increased each year. This natural evolution, which has been discussed here previously, makes me wonder if the previous graduating classes would have been accepted in today's world. Morton Schapiro, the current president of Northwestern says yes. In his mind, the people who got into these top-tier schools in the past were competitive on the level that was necessary back then. He assumes that those people would have risen to the occasion had the circumstances been more like they are today.
I like that answer.
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