<p>Okay no one freak out-- decisions are not up yet. I just thought I would start this thread so we could proceed to freak out/speculate until the decisions come out in, I'm guessing, a couple weeks. I have snow day today so I've got some free time. I checked out the decisions thread from last year and they heard on the 14th of March- a Friday. The year before I think it was the 15th- a Thursday. So for us (and this is a pure guess-don't take this as fact) I would think it might be the 13th. Of course those who get invited to multicultural weekend or who got scholarships should get their notices a few days before the rest of us (congratulations btw!). Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Here is the format for when decisions do come out. The trick is to take the spaces out of the brackets before you post. If you don’t then the formatting won’t work.</p>
<p>[ size=+1][ color=blue][ b]Decision: [ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I:
[ *] SAT IIs:
[ *] ACT
[ *] GPA:
[ *] Rank:
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recs:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Hook (if any):
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country:
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ *] Perceived Strengths/Weaknesses:
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied:
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]
[ b]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:[ /b]</p>
<p>Has anyone been invited to the multiculutral weekend yet?</p>
<p>Dante09 - According to previous forums, I believe scholarships and multicultural weekend has closed (meaning the applicants has been choosen). All that is left is RD.</p>
<p>When will regular decisions be released? Is there a chance it will be before April 1?</p>
<p>yup. April 1 is the last possible day that we will find out.</p>
<p>ACCEPTED January 8th (surprised I wasn’t named a finalist for any of the three scholarships I applied for or USP business, strange…)</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 800 M, 800 CR, 780 W (2380)
SAT II: Math 2 800, Chinese 800, US History 790, Chemistry (770)
Unweighted GPA (out of 10.0): 94
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Magnet School of 67, school doesn’t rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): Nine 5’s USH, Eng Lang, US Gov, Comp Gov, Micro, Macro, Psych, Calc AB, Calc BC. and one 4 Chem. Chem and the Calcs were in school, everything else self-studied (possible explanation for relatively low qpa)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Phys Mech, AP Phys E/m, AP Eng Lit, AP Bio, Multivariable Calc, Architecture (required class), and Comm Media (grduation reqt, but my teacher was an English major at Yale and has worked wonders on my essays!)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, National AP Scholar, Eagle Scout with Palm</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): City’s Recycling Advisory Committee (high school rep), City’s Freecycling Grant Committee (chair), Fed Challenge (econ competition, president), Various Other Service Activities
Volunteer/Community service: Easily 750+, But I never really report them
Summer Activities: Internship at City Hall and in an architectural firm in Shanghai (pretty cool experience but i never really write about it)
Essays: Probs 8/10 not like super duper fantastic, but definitely above average
Teacher Recommendation: pretty good (one came out of nowhere and volunteered, and another wrote solid recs before for other things)
Counselor Rec: pretty good, i imagine that since there’s only 67 of us, she can spend more time on each one, and since i take so many APs (she proctors them) that i’d be memorable
Additional Rec: Director of the Department I worked for this summer at City Hall-fantastic
Interview: Pretty good. The guy said something along the lines of being very impressed by me and that I had great potential.
Other:
State (if domestic applicant): NJ
School Type: Public Magnet
Ethnicity: Chinese represent!
Gender: M
Income Bracket: upper middle (not eligible for finaid)
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I’m really really big on sustainability, and colleges around the nation are catching on, I have some pretty good experience in terms of sustainability management, have spoken to several individuals at WashU about it, and they seem pretty excited about what I can bring to the table</p>
<p>^ Wow congrats on your early acceptance. And btw that is one hell of a profile you have there. Very impressive.</p>
<p>I’m really surprised you weren’t a scholarship finalist.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted!</p>
<p>So I was wondering, for high school seniors who find out their acceptance decision, when do they have to make a decision for washU by? I’m sure it’s sometime in may, but when??
Also, does washU do rolling admission???</p>
<p>Decision = May 1. No rolling admission at WashU, although Scholars & a few other do get bearly notification.</p>
<p>For the record, I have not been accepted!, I just wanted to try the lettering out ;). Anyway, has anyone heard anything about multicultural weekend??</p>
<p>ST2 decisions are most certainly not released on may 1st.</p>
<p>Miktau - ST2 mean that the applicant has to accept or decline by May 1st. BTW what does rolling admission mean?</p>
<p>Rolling admission means that you can apply and hear within weeks or a month (basically, they don’t have certain dates for applications or decisions). A lot of state or “less selective” schools do this.</p>
<p>So the past two years, applicants have been notified two weeks earlier prior to April 1st? Sweet.</p>
<p>So in the rolling admission process, the selection committee look at each applicant on an individual basis, as oppose to non-rolling, where applicants are being compared with one another?</p>
<p>I was SO excited last year when Wash U released the decisions way earlier than I had expected…good luck to everyone! Try not to obsess too much (not that it’s really preventable…the last month is BRUTAL).</p>
<p>Okay, obsessing done. However, one more question scwymer…do most colleges send an e-mail (with a link) to the decision? That is, we know that WashU has an application status online, but do they also send us an e-mail so we actually know that it’s been updated?</p>
<p>I think Wash U sends an email at some point, but not immediately. I was checking this site pretty much every day in the last couple weeks to see if anything was posted, and one day (as I’m sure you can imagine) there were a million posts about the decisions being up. I think an email came later, but not for a while after I had gotten my decision. So I would start checking here once it gets closer to mid-March. And make sure you’ve got your login info for the application status site!</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure the other colleges I applied to sent emails around April 1st with decisions. Exciting stuff!</p>