<p>Today I got rejected by WUSTL, so disappointed! Now I am really worried about Penn decision coming up. Did any one get rejected by WUSTL but still accepted to Penn?</p>
<p>My D got rejected at WUSTL today. We were a bit surprised. Penn is her first choice, so she is concerned too. What are your stats? </p>
<p>She applied at 9 schools. </p>
<p>Accepted:
Georgia Tech
Case Western
University of Miami
Texas</p>
<p>Rejected:
WUSTL</p>
<p>I know someone who was accepted at Yale, rejected by WUSTL. My son was accepted at Penn, rejected at Duke 5 years ago if that helps!</p>
<p>my son was wait listed at WUSTL. waiting on Penn. Accepted EA to Boston College and Notre Dame. it’s all a moving target.</p>
<p>My D is waiting to hear from UCSD, Rice, Duke, and Penn. It will be a long wait until the end of the month.</p>
<p>It’s next to impossible to understand decisions based on what seems like ranking of schools. Four years ago my son was accepted EA to MIT (and two other EA schools), then waitlisted at every Ivy he applied to.</p>
<p>I have received a likely letter from UPenn but was waitlisted by WUSTL. Check the likely letters thread in the UPenn 2015 forum for brief stats if you want</p>
<p>I got accepted to WUSTL today and have applied to Penn RD as well and did not receive a likely letter. Trust me an acceptance at WUSTL does not ease the anxiety for the Penn decision especially without a likely letter.</p>
<p>Ksqdomer:
That’s exactly my case too.
Should be an interesting month.</p>
<p>Though I don’t know if it’s true, the general perception is that WUSTL waitlists the highly qualified applicants who haven’t shown “demonstrated interest” to protect their yield and acceptance rates. I don’t think that would explain a rejection though</p>
<p>would this waitlisting “overqualified” students mean that those who are accepted probably do not have a good chance at ivies/stanford?</p>
<p>Ummm…I would say not necessarily. If you look at the decisions thread, it seems like the overall stats for the accepted and waitlisted applicants are very similar. There seems to be no pattern or logic to them. To be honest, I could have sworn they just used the lottery system to distinguish between accepted and waitlisted applicants. These days, college admissions are just so unpredictable and irrational.</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard, WUSTL tends to reject some extremely qualified applicants because the university expects those students to immediately turn down the offer of admission. I hope all of you best of luck!</p>
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<p>I would guess that it depends on how much demonstrated interest the accepted student showed. Either way, I don’t think decisions from WUSTL are a good indicator of how a student will fare with the Ivies</p>
<p>i applied to WUSTL without showing too much interest (applied to scholarship and saw the admissions guy when he came to school). They must have seen something in my app that made them want to accept me even though I was “overqualified” (I find the irony in this hilarious). I think it is a good sign for me, and I hope to continue the success. That being said, there is no reason a WUSTL WL/rejection means you can’t get into Penn.</p>
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<p>That would be ridiculous. While it is certainly possible that WUSTL wait lists candidates they think are unlikely to attend, it does not mean they are telling accepted students, “Come here, you don’t have a chance at the Ivies anyway.”</p>
<p>Although it may appear like a coin flip between the accepted and wait listed students, someone did take the time on CC to average the scores of the two categories. Accepted students were around 2280 while wait listed students were around 2215 (of course this is inflated on CC). Even if there are multiple cases of wait listed students in the 2300s, clearly many accepted kids at WUSTL also have 2300s and great chances at the Ivies. Anyone who says he is glad he was wait listed because he now has a chance at the Ivies is just trying to comfort himself (he may indeed have a good chance, but it’s not * because * of the wait list).</p>
<p>WUSTL is a top 15 school with scores/GPAs in the top ten in selectivity rankings.</p>
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No offense, but I don’t see how you can know you’re “overqualified,” especially when your post history indicates you were deferred from Yale EA. While it may be true that some of the waitlisted (and accepted) WUSTL kids are overqualified, I’m sure that many are not.</p>
<p>^^seriously. I’m kind of skeptical, I think the term “overqualified” is thrown around too much for “top 20” applicants. My sister got wait-listed at Penn and got into Yale, and she’s not saying she was “overqualified” for Penn so that’s why she was waitlisted. </p>
<p>I think WUSTL accepted you because you applied for the scholarship (demonstrated interest) and therefore though you were likely to attend, and you were academically qualified. There was no indication that you were overqualified. If you got the full-tuition scholarship, then we’ll talk.</p>
<p>^ I agree. Plus, the results on CC never cease to surprise me. I am shocked when I see someone accepted to Harvard, rejected by UPenn. Accepted to UChicago, rejected my Georgetown, accepted to Yale, rejected by Columbia. Like sometimes it just doesn’t make sense. I feel like when someone crosses a certain threshold of “greatness” that they can guarentee the same wave of acceptances/rejections by certain level schools. Apparently not, and quoting some random admission counselor: “admissions is a card toss, I swear if you tossed the cards (apps) up again they’d never land the same way twice”. Of course, this isn’t what I want to hear when we all only have one shot at our dream school - UPenn.</p>
<p>My son has a friend who was deferred ED at Penn, then accepted RD at Penn, Cornell, Northwestern, JHU, USC, Rice, UCLA, Cal and UMich, but waitlisted at WashUStl. He now attends Penn.</p>