<p>I received a "Mark your calendar" postcard from WashU late July for its Discovery Weekend. I have seen that a few people have already gotten the official invitations, but I have not. I was wondering if anyone else is in the same situation? I can't imagine the school sending out that postcard and not actually inviting me. :(</p>
<p>I think that it would be quite reasonable for you to call the school and ask about it given the fact that they already sent out an email to you to save that weekend. The staff at the school is extremely friendly and very helpful, and I hope that they will be able to help you out on this.</p>
<p>I’ve received an invitation and I’m wondering if its worth attending to miss two school days and buy an airline ticket.</p>
<p>I got the mark your calendar but not the invite, live in Midwest.</p>
<p>Did anyone get an all-expense paid invitation? My son got the invitation but I was hoping for the free one.</p>
<p>The free trip is only offered when they have offered you admission. This is around May. It is used to help you make up your mind to accept Washu offer of admission.</p>
<p>@desudesudesu same here. I live in Ohio and I called them about it. They said they sent out the invitation on August 1st, but obviously some of us still haven’t received it yet. Have you gotten it yet?</p>
<p>What are the criteria for receiving an invitation to this?</p>
<p>No, still haven’t received it yet.</p>
<p>Can anyone remind me what date it is again? I didn’t mark my calendar, I just kind of threw the postcard away</p>
<p>The free trip is diversity weekend, not discovery weekend.</p>
<p>Some students do get all-expense-paid trips to Discovery Weekend in September. I did my senior year.</p>
<p>@desudesudesu The dates are September 26-29. Still not invitation.</p>
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<p>Neither is true. Regarding the first, as Koriander correctly states, students that WUSTL is exceedingly interested in attracting for any number of reasons are offered airfare up to a certain $$ amount. My D was offered this and attended, although she didn’t end up at WUSTL. The rest of the costs are covered for everyone, as far as I know. And May would be way too late to convince students anyway, since you have to decide by May 1.</p>
<p>marcdvl may be correct about Diversity Weekend, I have no idea, but that is not to the exclusion of Discovery Weekend.</p>
<p>Fallenchemist, feel free to post and share your experience but please defer from posting comments about other people’s post. I post using my own experiences to assist others. I may not know everything but I know some. I got the month wrong, it was April during multicultural weekend. But that does not make my post untrue. Not everyone gets invited during Multicultural but its free if you do get an invite. Not everyone gets invited during Discovery but its not free airfare. Both from personal experience and stated at Washu website. And I have a connection to Washu as a student, better than a parent of a student that is not even going to Washu. Oops sorry, broke my own rule of not commenting about other people’s post.</p>
<p>Btw, you can invite yourself for discovery weekend, see link.
[Discovery</a> Weekend | Undergraduate Admissions | Washington University in St. Louis](<a href=“http://admissions.wustl.edu/events/Pages/Discovery-Weekend.aspx]Discovery”>http://admissions.wustl.edu/events/Pages/Discovery-Weekend.aspx)</p>
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<p>Actually, my airfare was free to Discovery Weekend. All-expense-paid is exactly that. Fallenchemist is right that WashU will pay for you to come to discovery weekend if they are trying to attract you to attend.</p>
<p>Koriander, not debating that fact, as I said spoke from my own experience. I did not know that they offered free airfare to a select few desirable students in September. And I did not state that fallenchemist is wrong. Just telling the person not to say a post is not true. But he is a senior member, maybe he can do that.</p>
<p>FLtoWashu - You make no sense. First of all, if someone posts something that is incorrect of course it should be commented on and corrected. It happens all the time on here. Seniority has nothing to do with it.</p>
<p>Second, I said that certain select students get free airfare. You then said:</p>
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<p>And then you claim that you were not correcting me?? Read your own posts. And since you finally admitted that you did not know that free airfare was offered to a few desirable students, contrary to your first post on this thread, you were in fact wrong in that post. So let’s see. You didn’t get that right, you got the date wrong, and you think that incorrect information should not be corrected? I am baffled.</p>
<p>I am also baffled as to why you think your own experience is representative and factual for the experience of every student that every applied to WUSTL, which must be the case since you not only based your original statement on you not getting free airfare but also your incorrect “correction”. I was basing my very simple correction of your first post on my experience. Or is my experience less valid than yours?</p>
<p>I already knew you will react this way on my post. Take a chill pill fallenchemist, don’t blow a gasket. You don’t need to make it personal. Btw are you an washu alumni or parent of one? Have a nice day.</p>
<p>I don’t think I am the one that needs a chill pill since you are the one that took offense to simply being corrected. If you think being corrected makes something personal, you have some growing up to do. I will let others read what was posted and decide who made this personal first.</p>
<p>And no, I am not an alum or parent, although I did have a family member that attended. But mainly I grew up in the shadow of WUSTL, and have a lot of connections to the school through friends, etc. There is no rule that says one has to be an alum or parent to participate here, which is what you are trying to subtly imply in your two posts that reference the point that I am neither. Otherwise why even ask?</p>
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What a ludicrous thing to say, especially since you got two things completely wrong.</p>