<p>jrock you are expressing my sentiments about feeling obligated to apply because they sent me so much mail.... but then again, I think that's what they intended :)</p>
<p>oh well, I'm happy with where I'm going</p>
<p>Jrock - the admit rate is 6.4% ?<br>
Is that a fact?</p>
<p>i looooove this whole excuse of being obligated to apply to a school. </p>
<p>come on - i've had lots of schools send me a piece of mail every other day, one even that continued to ask me to apply at least a month after the deadline - i didn't like the school, so i didnt apply. if you took the act practically every school in the world sent you mail, it doesnt mean you applied to all of them. you make it seem like wash u was holding a gun to your head. im sick of all these stupid justifications for applying/being waitlisted. </p>
<p>it's over, it's done - if you have nothing nice to say, why waste your time here? go to the board of the school you are going to and chat with all the other highly qualified acceptees about how ecstatic you are that you're not going to inferior schools like wash u. leave the rest of us alone. im getting so sick and tired of having to defend my school. its rude.</p>
<p>I think 6.4% is the percentage of students who gets accepted & decides to go there, out of everybody who applies. I'd say the admit rate is around 20% (20% last year).</p>
<p>A quick response to Jrock,</p>
<p>Quote by Jrock:
By heaping up mail in your box, they increase their popularity (advertising). And guys begin to think 'Wow, WUStl is great.' it actually is ranked among the top 10 but their selection process is highly unpredictable. And generally, the university is not affordable. They really do not give much financial so many people end up not going.</p>
<p>Actually, Wash U in St. Louis offers the most full scholarships I have ever seen at such a top-notch school. I urge someone to find a school at the level of Wash U that offers merit-based scholarships (exception-Duke). No other school on a comparable level offers so many full and partial rides. For example, there are programs such as Danforth, Compton, Dean's, etc...... Such scholarships are extremely competitive. The kids I met during interviews for these scholarships all applied to schools such as Harvard, MIT, Northwestern HPME (one of the most difficult programs in the country, if not the most), Princeton, and on and on (and most got in). Wash U attracts top students around the nation, not only for their undergrad, but also for their 2nd ranked medical school, only behind Harvard.</p>
<p>As for the whole advertising campaign, I have been solicited from schools that I have never heard of to Harvard and MIT. If you make a certain score on standardized tests, boom, you're on their mailing list. The fact that Harvard even advertises means nothing to diminish the fact that Wash U advertises. All schools do it. I have even seen online advertising for Harvard on websites. Means nothing. I do not think less of Harvard in anyway, and no one should think less of any school for their techniques.</p>
<p>On another note, I do not think UVa and Wash U are on the same level. Wash U gets three times the NIH funding than UVa (250 mil v. 70), which is higher than Yale, Nwestern, Duke, and most ivies. UVa is the 3rd best public school, behind Berkley and Michigan, great school anyways.</p>
<p>I hope that this post has been helpful in that I use statistics and facts to help back up my arguments and sway others. Any comments are appreciated.</p>
<p>
Thanks madfox^2. I would've posted yesterday but the site was slow. 6.4% of applicants actually enrol or 6.4% is the class size. I also know that average admit rates over the past five years is around 20%. Does that mean so many of the acceptees don't enrol? The margin is too wide!</p>
<p>HelloAll87:
Thanks for putting me straight on some things. I appreciate that. But I want to ask if there is a high positive correlation between the quality of a school and the amount of money is has?
You're very right about the scholarship, but they are indeed extremely competitive!</p>
<p>Yes, I am 100% positive that there is a high correlation between the amount of money a school has and the caliber of the school because</p>
<ol>
<li>it can attract better faculty</li>
<li>more research</li>
<li>more resources/technology</li>
<li>better programs</li>
</ol>
<p>In turn, these attract better students.</p>
<p>For example, Harvard has the largest endowment and NIH funding of any school. Most schools don't even come close. Twice the NIH funding of 2nd place.</p>