<p>Does anyone else agree that Washu U's supposed 6.14% acceptance rate this year cannot be right. They say they accepted 1350 out of 22000 applications but there is no way that Wash U's acceptance rate is that low.</p>
<p>thats impossible unless half of the applicants were retarded</p>
<p>I think 1350 is the estimated class size that they are shooting for. Usually they accept more with the thought that some people will reject their acceptance decision.</p>
<p>that's impossible since last year's acceptance rate was around 17% (what I was told at a WashU information session).</p>
<p>They waitlist more people than they reject. A ploy, it seems, to lower their raw "acceptance" rate. Also, You have to factor in yield.</p>
<p>Crazy, crazy times.</p>
<p>Ridiculous. D was accepted SCEA at Stanford and waitlisted at WUSTL.</p>
<p>Wow. People need to use their heads. 22,000 apps for 1350 SPOTS. Colleges obviously accept more people than the spots in their class because people don't always accept it. Most likely WashU accepted around 3x as many people as that, making the acceptance rate about 18%, as an estimate.</p>
<p>I'll second salpert. And 18% sounds entirely plausible.</p>
<p>WashU acceptance rate will be in the area of 16% to 17% this year. They will accept about 3,600 to 3,700 to fill a freshman class of 1,350. Included in this is probably 50 to 100 accepted off the wait list.</p>
<p>Also remember that the yield rate for ED is 100%. So, I guess it's possible, (barely) that the RD acceptance rate is 6% if they waitlisted a ton of people. Applications have been on the rise like crazy at WashU tho.</p>