<p>I was wondering if anyone has had a chance to stay overnight yet, and how it went. I have one scheduled, but I am paired up with a freshmen. It just seems kinda odd to me that someone who has been at the school for around 3 months is hosting a potential student, and I'm getting some not so good vibes.</p>
<p>Hey I had an overnight stay at WashU, and I thought it was an excellent time. I went during the Discovery weekend event for high school seniors, and they had a ton of fun events planned for us.
I too was paired with a freshman. At first, I was surprised, but that fact doesn’t really detract from the visit. You go to see what college life is like, and that is something you need to experience for yourself. Have a good time!!</p>
<p>Your host isn’t there to be your guide- they probably won’t do anything with you other than get food or give you a place to sleep.</p>
<p>Every time I’ve hosted, all I ever did with my hostee was go get dinner with them, because they had so many events planned that there wasn’t time for anything else. Mind you, I’ve never hosted someone on a weekend (all of mine have been Sundays…)</p>
<p>Also, a freshmen with 3 months of experience knows more than enough about WashU (I’m currently a sophomore) for your visit.</p>
<p>Either way, enjoy your visit!</p>
<p>I also went for discovery weekend and it was a pretty good experience. they give you a packet of classes that you can attend and pretty much let you do your own thing. I didn’t see much of my host sophomore at all though. They give you a good idea of what the campus is like during the school week and in my case what the night life is like… I was out pretty late so my hose just wedged the door for me. Make sure you just let your hose know what you’re up to so they don’t lock you out :]</p>
<p>I think I spent about 20 minutes with my host, but I was at Discovery Weekend.</p>
<p>A vast majority of hosts are indeed freshmen. The main purpose of this is that 1) they just went through the admissions process and have the most connection with the incoming students. 2) They live on freshmen floors, so you are bound to meet someone with similiar interests to you in regards to potential major or extracurricular activity.</p>
<p>If you are interested on getting a more advanced student based perspective (this goes for anyone: interested, accepted, incoming), please join Bear Buddies. It is a student organization on campus composed on about a 100 current students who want to add a student-based perspective to the admission process. If you sign up, you would get paired up with a current student with similiar academic and extracurricular (to the best of our ability) interests, so that you can find out about an actual student’s experience here. Last year we worked with ~270 students who ended up coming to WashU, which was roughly a quarter of the class. If you are interested please, PM me and I will give you more information.
Note: Bear Buddies is sponsored by Student Union and is not affiliated with the Office of Admissions or the Office of Orientation.</p>