<p>I didn't get it, so I am looking forward to get my hopes up!!! I hope there weren't many admitted students who received the scholarship last year.</p>
<p>hey, there were 39 finalists this year and I think around 2000 applied, for Danforth</p>
<p>There will be between 100 - 120 major merit award recipients that will be part of the next freshman class.</p>
<p>Incoming class of close to 1500
<em>according to CollegeBoard
yield rate of 22%
</em><em>(according to <a href=“http://college”>http://college</a>.</em>*********<em>/college-1655-Washington-University-in-St.-Louis.html)
Suggests about 6800 admitted students
A little more than 200 receive offers for merit scholarship money
*</em>*taken from the WUSTL website
so 200/6800 is a little less than 3% of admitted applicants. </p>
<p>I’d say there’s a hefty change that you’re a part of that 97%!</p>
<p>OMG OMG i did not get a scholarship…i opened the page and there was a BIG UGLY “we regret…blah blah…na na…!!!”
i m so ****ed off…does this mean that i am not going to get into the university aswell or get any financial aid???.. first rejection of the season luks eerie and ugly and puts whole big suspicions in ma mind abt the difficulty of gettin into any university…i MEAN hellloooowwww!!!.. I don know which academic…hmmm…lemme put the right word…freaks!!! got it…
atleast this proves one thing…yahhhhh…i m NORMAL ;-)</p>
<p>I’m very confused as to what you’re trying to say…</p>
<p>That’s good then:)!!! I knew I wasn’t good enough to be in those 3%, but hopefully I can be one of the 97%. Applied just to show interest and probably going to get most of my cost covered by need based awards! I can only dream haha.</p>
<p>ST2, I was looking through WUSTL’s website again, and on the main financial aid page ([url=<a href=“http://admissions.wustl.edu/FinancialAssistance/Pages/default.aspx]Financial”>http://admissions.wustl.edu/FinancialAssistance/Pages/default.aspx]Financial</a> Assistance</p>
<p>The competition for a merit scholarship from a top university like WASHU is always extremely competitive. So you shall not equate not getting a merit scholarship to not getting in.</p>
<p>those stats are a little off. that link wasn’t working for me to check it, though.</p>
<p>according to most data (us news, other websites, wustl’s own data), the freshman class hovers around 1400 people, they usually accept around 20% of applicants, and they receive just over 22,000 applications. that makes their yield around 32%. just to clarify.</p>
<p>caffeineaholic - Note that I mentioned “major”, so I did not include smaller scholarships. (major means at least 1/2 tuition). Also remember that not everyone offered a scholarship, accepts it. There are some students that decide to attend another school. I was refering to the approximate number of people in the actual freshman class. Also, some people will have more than one scholarship/award.</p>
<p>jcool155 - The actual acceptance percent is now running below 20%. As a result of some unexpected high conversion numbers a few years ago, WashU has started using the wait list more actively. This action was undertaken to better control the size and composition of the new freshman class.</p>
<p>ST2 — agreed. I was just posting to clarify the supremely misrepresented data from a few posts up. I believe two years ago, the acceptance rate was 17 or 18%, and last year was 20 or 21%. Anywhere between 17 and 20% can be looked at as a rough average. When its that low, anyway, it doesn’t really matter if you’re off by a percentage point or two :D</p>
<p>jcool155 - not meant as a criticism, just an update on numbers. You are absolutely right, anything below 20% becomes very difficult.</p>
<p>ST2 - What are “conversion numbers”? Sorry, I’ve never heard this term. I have heard that Wash U tends to more actively use its wait list as compared to other schools, and I’ve often wondered why.</p>
<p>conversion is the same as yield, the percentage of people that actually matriculate from the number accepted to the university. Quick example: If a school gets 10,000 applications and offers slots to 3,000, they have a 30% acceptance rate. If 600 of these people decide to go to that school, they have a yield (or conversion rate) of 20%.</p>
<p>Thanks, fallenchemist - I had heard of yield, but not “conversion”. Going back to ST2’s comment, I guess a high conversion rate is good, but not an UNEXPECTEDLY high conversion rate. Thanks again for the clarification.</p>
<p>Yeah, I suppose technically there really isn’t a “good” or “bad” conversion rate, it is more important from the university’s point of view that it is predictable so they know how many applicants to offer slots to. But they do like a high yield since they rate schools this way. Knowing your school gets a high yield means it is desirable and you can have a lower acceptance rate and still get the number of freshmen you want. And that makes your school harder to get into, and that makes it look good.</p>
<p>I suppose a school could offer free beer and get a great yield, therefore letting it get a highly selective acceptance rate. Wonder if anyone has tried that?</p>