<p>Just curious, did any students here who believe they were qualified, get waitlisted or rejected because of a low income. Wash U is known to be a school that does not practice Need Blind acceptance.</p>
<p>Bump, I really want an answer to this.</p>
<p>This is sad about WashU. The official word is that the vast majority of our admissions are need blind but that the last bit of the admissions are need aware. I know there’s a massive push on campus to try to increase socioeconomic diversity by going need blind. Just be weary of anyone who insists they are qualified but only got the reject or WL because of finaid. For every person who that is the case i can show you someone with comparable or better stats who got rejected and could pay. </p>
<p>But I don’t doubt there are some for whom this is the case.</p>
<p>I was accepted and our income is <$25,000 per year. It’s just anecdotal, but I don’t think need-awareness is a death sentence.</p>
<p>Hey …S has not yet checked his status…I think he prefers to wait for the snail mail tradition. Anyway, there are lots of theories about why choices are made and the need aware is definitely causing some anxiety. I was given the impression that the need aware comes into play when they pull from the wait list (mainly) and when they are, perhaps, down to the last few slots but they don’'t actually have hard numbers at this point. In May they will know what people really need, what they have accepted and what they have left to offer. I think a lot of you are barking up the wrong tree…you ask for stats like grades, hooks, SATs, but do not ask what school/area a student is applying to. WUSTL gets a lot of applicants that are premed for example with interests in the biological sciences. Great students but the university also wants to get enough art students to fill the Sam Fox school as well as engineering types, business types, etc. So…in some sense you compete against the students with your profile including expressed interest in major/school at WUSTL…undecided will compete, primarily, against the undecided. When you see students at your school who get in, others get waitlisted, and some rejected…what schools did they apply to? WUSTL really wants to get some balance and is, justifiably, proud of their many good schools and majors so they don’t just take the students with the best test scores and grades…without taking into account at least their stated interests. Diversity isn’t just about race and socio economic factors.</p>
<p>i was waitlisted and my income is around 40k$ yearly.</p>
<p>i wasn’t qualified though, my act score was a 31 (and that’s with superscoring, 29 without), and i’m only 16 (3-year high school graduate), but I had good grades and some essays/recommendations that were the strongest part of my application.</p>
<p>i’m surprised though, why would WUSTL waitlist me with such great financial need? now I’m pretty much sure there’s no hope I’ll get off the waiting list. Oh well.</p>
<p>LMU10 …I don’t think that admissions staff have much of an idea what your families econ situation is when they review the apps. They will be able to see “will apply for financial aid” but that’s it. So…being middle income will not hurt or help you the first round. However, while I am sure WUSTL will not filter the waitlist entirely by financial need, imagine that come May they have the following situation. 50% of accepted students have put down a deposit. They and the ED kids have submitted their FA requests and in order to meet most of their need, WUSTL has used 90% of their financial aid budget. However, now they have space to pull 100 kids from the wait list. WHat if a lot of the top 100 on the waitlist all need aid and that requires more than the 10% budget they have. So …they start with their best WL candidates that fill gaps in enrollment (ooh we need more business majors, liberal arts, etc) and as they send out letters they keep close track of how much aid each of those is going to eat up…when they run out or come close they look at their list and they take a candidate just as good as another but with no or small financial need and ask them to come…not fair…absolutely not…but it probably affects only a handful of kids at the very end of process. schools don’t want to deny a kid because of financial aid need so they have found a way to make it a factor in only a fraction of the accptances. Keep the faith but keep open about your other schools and DO NOT FORGET to apply for local scholarships and any additional ones at your safety schools…My S has at least 5 apps in the works even now.</p>
<p>fineartsmajormom - this is off topic, but acceptance packets were FedExed overnight as of Wednesday. If you don’t hear anything tomorrow…</p>