<p>JUST out of curiosity, has ANYONE been rejected? It seems like it was either acceptance or waitlist...</p>
<p>Their waitlist option is like rejection I guess. LOL :P</p>
<p>i got waitlist...I'm effing ****ssssed</p>
<p>hey....if anyone is rejected....i was wondering if you can post ur stats...just to see the bad side of the group....there just seems to be a lot of waitlisted...</p>
<p>That is really insensitive....Wash U is a top tier university and as such, their admissions decisions are arbitrary and depend on at many times random things that they need to fill their class with like a flute player or a photographer. Anyone who is rejected should not be referred as having "bad stats" b/c there are people with phenomenal grades and several EC's that get rejected from here as well as the ivy league and other top notch schools. Even if they did post their stats, it wouldn't help b/c you would see that the stats very often end up being similar to the stats of the accepted or the waitlisted. </p>
<p>Waitlisted here, but seriously, don't try to guess or compare anyone. It is mind boggling and perplexing how these universities make decisions on students</p>
<p>I am waitlisted, too. Do I have a chance?</p>
<p>i think for the most part waitlisted = rejection (until further notice)
there are wayy too many ppl getting waitlisted so i dont think chances of acceptance will be too high for anyone, including myself</p>
<p>i think many of the rejections went out to people who applied early but were not what washu was looking for.</p>
<p>WashU is more likely to hand out just acceptances or rejections for deferred early applicants, I think.<br>
Think about it--if you applied early and were deferred, how much would you hate to be waitlisted four months later?</p>
<p>i was deferred ed and rejected rd</p>
<p>i doubt that you will get many people to say that though. most people just kinda slither away</p>
<p>In my opinion, and in many students' at my school, WashU does not like accepting many of our top students because it does not want to be deemed a "safety school" (WashU is a popular safety school at my school). As a result, a surprisingly high number of students from my school are placed on the waitlist.</p>
<p>Anyone experience the same situation?</p>
<p>i have no one in my school applied except for me....the last time i checked..only 2 people got accepted in the last 4 years...</p>
<p>rejected students usually don't come back to the forums.</p>
<p>carbon511, obviously WashU is not a safety choice for your school's top students if a lot of them are being rejected/waitlisted. WashU is not a safety school for anyone, judging by this year's admissions.</p>
<p>I would imagine a lot of the top students at your school get waitlisted because a lot of top students around the country get waitlisted/rejected at schools like WashU.</p>
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<p>that can not be more true. i know for sure that i have never looked at the Upenn forum again after i got rejected.</p>
<p>I know last year there were 10-20 acceptances from WUSTL and none did attend. My guess is this year, D's high school has the same number of acceptances and not many will attend therefore many will come off the waitlist.</p>
<p>But, we have to imagine...for every spot....we (the waitlisted people) are the third or fourth in line....that is pretty hard to get in... so slim...</p>
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My guess is this year, D's high school has the same number of acceptances and not many will attend therefore many will come off the waitlist.
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That is not quite the way it works. Universities know their approximate yeald, which changes little form year to year, and accept many more students than they expect enrolling. If at the end they have not enough matriculating students, they go to the waitlist. Last year WUSTL actually ended up over-enrolled by 100 students or so.</p>
<p>nngmm - Actualy that was 2 years ago. As a result of that situation, WashU reduced the number of initial acceptances last year and used the WL. That policy worked well and I believe is being used again this year. WashU was quite successful in filling out its class after the May 1 deadline for initial acceptances.</p>
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That's right - sorry. But my point was that colleges take into account that only a fraction of the admitted students enroll each year.</p>
<p>nngmm - Your point is well taken. Admissions is based on a formula. The school looks at what their historical conversion rate is (percent of students who accept the schools initial offer of admission). They hope to fill between 95% to 100% of the freshman class with the initial acceptances. They then use the WL to top off the class, to get it as close as possible to the ideal freshman classs size that they desire. Two years ago WashU's conversion percent was quite a bit higher than their historical conversion percent. This caused some temporary problems with housing. As a result WashU decided to admit less students in the initial round and rely on the WL to round out the class. This policy allowed them to get close to the desired freshman class size. It also allowed them to fill in any missing pieces in the freshman class mosaic. Unless there is another spike in the conversion rate this year, the WL should be used about the same as last year.</p>