<p>@wimmiett. OR it proves that you were a better applicant (at least to those schools) than someone who calls him/herself @ivyleaguefan.</p>
<p>@StanManYeah</p>
<p>Ouch!! … please do not pour any salt onto an open wound !!!</p>
<p>I do not have a good data on Stanford in correlation with Wash U since very few students applied to both programs.</p>
<p>@upstream</p>
<p>Sorry if I sounded insensitive, but Wash U is no school to kill oneself over. The person needs to get a grip.</p>
<p>Thank you for your response regarding the Stanford data.</p>
<p>Two years ago, I saw one girl get accepted by Harvard but denied by Brown. This doesn’t mean that Harvard
is easier to get in than Brown. Apparently they do not look at the applicant’s academics only but they look at so many others including if the applicant is going to be melt in the college with others.</p>
<p>@StanManYeah</p>
<p>You are right that iveleaguefan could transfer to UChicago after acing his classes at Wash U and changing his CC username to UChicagofan. :)<br>
I hope he knows that UChicago is not one of ivy league schools !</p>
<p>I don’t think getting into WashU is a bad sign! It just means that your stats were in range and that you probably showed enough interest.</p>
<p>Ways to show interest:
- Attending college rep visit
- Attending rep visits outside of school
- Visiting campus, requesting on-campus interview
- Requesting additional information
- Applying for scholarships (eg: Moog, Danforth, etc.)</p>
<p>Two people from my high school did all of this and they were accepted even though their grades and test scores put them in the lower quartile of accepted applicants. Everyone else, including the SCEA/REA admits, was waitlisted because none of us really did anything other than showing up at the rep visit and submitting our applications. </p>
<p>Congrats on your acceptance!</p>
<p>I too was accepted to WUSTL, but I got waitlisted by Chicago and rejected to Penn (Wharton) when I applied ED. Ultimately the sample sizes may be too small to determine whether the correlation truly exists, but I think it goes to say that among similar caliber schools you can expect admissions at 2-3 of them if you get in at one! Honestly I’m really upset because after Penn, Chicago was my FAVORITE university but I’m honored to be accepted to WUSTL '18!</p>
<p>When people get into Harvard but not into Brown, they say “oh, well the Ivy League is that competitive!” When people get into Harvard but not into WUSTL, they say, “Wash U rejected me because I am so amazing and wouldn’t go to their school!” Double standard if I have ever seen one.</p>
<p>Well put StanMan!</p>
<p>
Uh, no. Wash U has a strong emphasis on culture when they accept applicants. Part of that includes accepting students who seem to like the school and have an interest in attending. There’s nothing wrong with that and it has nothing to do with prestige.</p>
<p>Hello! I got into wash u but without displaying much if any interest,(basically I submitted the app bc it had no supplements ) I don’t consider myself a week applicant but who knows what they look for right?</p>
<p>How can someone possibly say that JHU (a school that has Early Decision for crying out loud) does not take interest into account? Interest is the basis of ED.</p>
<p>To be clear, I am not saying that ED is bad. Just saying that it is a very clear expression of taking interest into account.</p>
<p>Sorry to bump this thread, but I think this might add to it. For all you correlation buffs out there:</p>
<p>SAT: 2240, SATII: 730 Math II, 700 Eng Lit
Rank: Top 5%
GPA: Hideously complicated, but know that there is serious grade deflation
Region: International (India)
Aid: Didn’t ask
Major: Econ unless specified</p>
<p>Accepted: WUSTL RD (Olin), Rice (With a Trustee Scholarship-$86,000), Claremont McKenna, UCLA, UNC Chapel Hill
Waitlisted: UVa, UChicago (Deferred, then WL)
Rejected: Columbia (ED), Northwestern</p>
<p>Let’s see what happens on Ivy day. </p>
<p>To update @upstream 's awesome work, I got into WuSTL. I also got into Brown and Emory. However, I got rejected by Yale, Duke and Cornell. </p>
<p>Hey everyone, OP here!</p>
<p>I’ve gotten back almost all of my decisions, and I wanted to answer my own question for anyone who cares to know, or for the CCers wondering the same thing who may stumble across this thread in the future.</p>
<p>First things first, as many of you have already probably guessed, I was wrong. An acceptance to WUSTL is NOT a bad sign, and it certainly doesn’t mean that I won’t get in anywhere else. I was being irrational.</p>
<p>For those of you trying to calculate correlations, I was accepted to Dartmouth, Duke, Rice, UC Berkeley, and UCLA in addition to WashU. I was rejected from HYP/Brown.</p>
<p>I’m still waiting on USC but I don’t think I’ll go even if I get in (although they do give good money for nat merit…)</p>
<p>Anyway, if there’s anything I’ve learned from this whole process, it’s that the whole thing is pretty dang arbitrary, and that you should count your blessings. Also, don’t ever base your value on an acception or rejection letter–success takes its roots first and foremost in hard work, and if you take advantage of your opportunities, you will do amazing things no matter where you go.</p>
<p>Sorry if that sounded cheesy/preachy. It can be hard to feel good about yourself when you get rejection letters but just know that it’ll all turn out just fine :)</p>
<p>Good luck to each and every one of you!!!</p>
<p>So I got into Berkeley and Wesleyan. Rejected by Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Penn, Tufts, Emory and Stern. Talk about weird trends…</p>
<p>I got into WUSTL and UCLA. Rejected by Harvard, Duke, Columbia, Berkeley, Penn. Waitlisted by Chicago, Dartmouth, NYU-Stern. Talk about weirder trends (case in point: NYU). Not going to lie - I’m disappointed since I’ve seen less qualified get into a couple of those schools but it is what it is. </p>
<p>I was waitlisted by Wash U (and some less qualified people from my school were accepted), but accepted to Stanford, Yale, Columbia, Williams, Amherst, Pomona, Davidson, Haverford, and Emory. However, I was also waitlisted by Bowdoin and Claremont McKenna, and rejected by Cornell, Penn, Dartmouth, and UChicago. </p>
<p>I do think my level of interest played into it – I didn’t even do the scholarship app for Wash U simply because I was too lazy… I also just think different schools look for different things – I believe my essays for Stanford, Yale, and Columbia made all the difference.</p>
<p>I didn’t post this to say that getting into Wash U is a bad sign, but just to try and prove that admissions decisions are not correlated. </p>
<p>My daughter was accepted to WashU, Rice, Vanderbilt, Cornell, Williams and Emory. She was waitlisted by Harvard and Duke and rejected by Yale and Princeton. Do you see a correlation?</p>
<p>Yes Harvard, Yale and Princeton are more selective.
On a separate note, your daughter should definitely chose WashU!</p>