Does WASHU always send the letters? I’m really anxious!
Accepted: Northeastern EA (some merit), University of Delaware (Honors, $15k/year merit, DiScho Finalist, waiting for more merit scholarships)
Deferred: University of Chicago (originally applied ED, switched to EA, withdrew application after deferral)
Waiting: WashU, Georgetown, UPenn, Columbia, Emory, Fordham
Not super interested in WashU, and I’m not expecting an acceptance from them either. I’ll probably end up at UD unless I somehow manage to get into Georgetown or UPenn (which is EXTREMELY unlikely for me).
Let me throw the information that most already know just to relax everyone here. If you see WASHU 2021 class profile, it doesn’t look that bad at all. Here is the link
Respectively, I believe the SAT and ACT testing is a huge racket. It doesn’t indicate/predict success in college, but it does create an industry for the testing companies and all the preparatory programs individuals pay to attend.
An extremely competitive 2021 group of admittees - the saving grace is the school’s relatively low yeild as compared with its academic peers.
Are you suggesting so many admitted students go somewhere else, not WASHU?
@PPofEngrDr I don’t know their yield, but I would say they do a good job of weeding out high-achieving students who aren’t actually interested in attending. I know a lot of people that apply to WUSTL thinking “Oh, they’re my backup, you know, in case I don’t make it to HYP.” This thinking is not very smart, if course, because any school with an acceptance rate of 16% is not a safety for anyone. I see it happen every year, and I’m glad WUSTL is willing to kind of taking a stand against it
By the way, I am in no way saying anything negative. They even note on their website that theh value demonstrated interest. I’m not saying they heavily use yield protection. They accept high-acheiving students that show interest and high-achieving students that show ZERO interest. I just think they are good at being able to tell who is genuinely intersted in attending and who is a great fit for their school. In my earlier comment what I mean is that I think there are many high achieving students that just think they can get it without the effort of demonstrating interest at a school that values it. If someone were really that interested, I think they would know that interest is important.
@Ashtash I am not that much familiar with their admission process nuances either, but by just looking at 2021 class profile, 50% students have reasonable academics, not super-duper high nor super-duper low. What makes me wonder is why yield rate is only 35% (read somewhere on one of college statics site, not sure how true it is)? That means 65% of admitted students choose to go somewhere else.
Typical reasons can be
a. Have better school choice
b. I got into a school but no fin aid and so have no choice but to go somewhere else.
c. I also got into relatively lower rank school, but have great finance support/ close to home/ my friends are also there etc…
If someone able to shade more light on it.
okay so it’s most likely tomorrow that decisions will come out???
accepted: UNC-Chapel Hill (EA)
College of William & Mary (likely letter)
deferred: Dartmouth (ED)
rejected: none yet
waiting: Duke
Georgetown
Cornell
Penn
Vandy
WUSTL
Harvard
Yale
Tulane
UVA
Boston College
@Hephaestion thank you very much for your reply to my post #530. Good Luck!
@Sweetcookie18 congrats! What r u stats?
Can anyone confirm that decisions are coming out tomorrow ?
The problem with all of these analyses is that they are superficial and not really based upon any meaningful data sets. The fact of the matter is that there are, before superscoring is accounted for, 35,000 kids who get a 34 35 or 36 on the ACT out of the 2,000,000 tests in 2017, according to what I found. Assuming that the numbers are roughly similar for the SAT, you have probably similar excellent percentages on the SAT. The simple fact is that there are a lot of people in these pools that have excellent credentials, and just having excellent credentials isn’t enough. You’ve got to have something to differentiate you from that pool. I don’t know what it is, and I don’t think anyone else knows, either. If I did, I would sell it and instantly retire. I would say, just generally, as someone who hires people to work in a professional field, if I had someone who had a perfect 4.0 but was not otherwise well rounded or someone with a 3.8 who showed passion and drive based upon other activities, I’d take the latter over the former any day of the week.
I don’t think you can say, based upon limited experience, that any of these schools are rejecting high achievers because they don’t think they’re going to go there. One, it’s based upon a small sample size (probably one or two anecdotes) and two,you don’t actually know the reason why they did or didn’t get in. Keep in mind, there’s a human element here as well, and someone may come across better on paper such that the person reading the materials just generally likes them better despite what you perceive as inferior credentials.
@summerhazed Ah, did you do all that interview stuff at UD last week?
@BigDaddy72 agree its like playing Jumanji, roll the dice for unpredictable outcome to act on it to survive for next round. However at the end all participants in that game survive.
@BigDaddy72 I definitely agree with what you’re saying espeically because I’m the person who doesn’t have a perfect 4.0 UW, but does a 3.83 UW with an excellent resume. I was just saying based on my naviance, there is kind of a pattern. They waitlist an immense amount of people with stellar numbers and good resumes and i would say an element is a lack of interest. In fact there is an applicant applying from my school who matches the whole “I want to go to an ivy and I just applied to WUSTL just because, but I’m not actually interested in going there” attitude.
But you’re right, ultimately, we don’t know why WUSTL and other schools admit who they admit. Admissions is very complex and no one will ever be able to 100% say who will and won’t be admitted:)
Looks like at least another 24 hours wait.
There are few colleges expected to come out with decisions and picture will be more clear by this weekend.