<p>I wouldn’t say there is grade deflation, no. I think on the whole, professors grade fairly, with a few atypically easy, and a few fairly hard graders. Throw in the occasional political grader (meaning one who grades down based on ideology) and you’ve pretty much covered it.</p>
<p>I really don’t mean to “refute” every point on this list, because I know that it’s all in good spirits and some people may have legitimate concerns, but I’d like to state clarification for a few of these items. The purpose of this list should be to provide items where there is a general consensus about annoying/frustrating things on campus, similar to the “101 reason why we LOVE Wash U list”. Items on that list are agreed by a general consensus on campus. </p>
<p>1:
Competition is present at every University, but I honestly believe that it is much less prevalent at Wash U than other similar schools. It’s a reason why people choose to come here over other places, and I think that the people who complain about competition at Wash U are few and far between. There is a general consensus that there is not a competitive atmosphere at Wash U, and a couple people who may have that complaint are not worthy to be on a list of things of “why not to go to Wash U”. </p>
<p>2:
Wash U is no more expensive than schools most similar to it. Sure, it will be more expensive than a state school, but that’s just a private vs. public difference… not a Wash U vs. everyone else difference. St Louis is a very inexpensive city (2nd lowest cost of living in the US, I think??), which further adds to discredit the “expensive” claim. Also, Wash U is #11 on the Princeton Review for “students happy with financial aid”. Taking this all into account, I don’t think you’ll find a general consensus that this school is too expensive. </p>
<p>6:
True. But, no city is as large as New York. It’s the largest city in the country. LA isn’t as large as New York, and neither is Miami or Chicago or Atlanta or Hanover New Hampshire. St Louis is something like the 18th largest area in the country, putting it ahead of many other popular college destinations. </p>
<p>9:
I adamantly disagree with this. You can get a burger + fries + drink (delicious burgers made to order, btw) for $5.00. Burritos, chicken fingers, wraps, hot sandwiches, and pasta are all like $5.00 too. Wash U does have some expensive options - like herb encrusted tilapia, lobster tail, steaks, grilled shrimp, etc — which of course will be more expensive, but it’s not like you get that every day for lunch or else you would run out of points extremely quickly. The existence of expensive options does not mean that the food is expensive. Most people get the basic stuff on a day-to-day basis (I’ll get one of the “fancy” meals like once per week), and all of that is very reasonably priced. If you went off campus, you’d be paying much more. Unless statistics are shown that prove otherwise, I am highly suspect of a claim that Wash U food is more expensive than other college’s campus food. I think it’s fair to say that Wash U food is about the same price as other college food, but is 10x tastier.</p>
<p>13:
But they’re soooooo pretty, hehe :D</p>
<p>14:
While I don’t have a long enough measuring stick, there’s a few buildings that have gotta be taller than Graham Chapel. The new Seigle Hall, Psychology Building, Knight Center, and the Law School definitely look to be taller than Graham by a significant margin.</p>
<p>^
I did some very quick research on food at other colleges. Wash U is much cheaper than UChicago ($5,100 per year required for freshman), Yale ($4,800 required for freshman), and Tufts ($5,000 for freshman although much cheaper for upperclassmen it seems). NYU’s average amount seems to be $3,900 per year.</p>
<p>The minimum required amount for freshman is $4,170 per year at Wash U. This is about the same as Brown and UVA. The most expensive option at Wash U is $4,600 per year, but I have a hard time fathoming who would possibly use that many points. </p>
<p>Granted, this is a relatively small sample size, but seems to be pretty representative and goes to show that food at Wash U cannot be stated as “expensive” relative to the standard.</p>
<p>This isn’t something that I don’t like about WashU and I’m digging it up from a few pages of posts ago about the admissions office, so apologies for just how off topic it really is. I have to say, though, that the woman sitting on the left side of the desk when you’re in UG admissions is one of the NICEST people I’ve met in the college process. She made the day I spent at WashU incredible. 
:)</p>
<p>Why do you think it isn’t the best for Engineering?</p>
<p>true, my list was mostly meant to be facetious. </p>
<p>Well if some buildings are taller than the graham chapel then i can add</p>
<ol>
<li>They lie to you on the campus tour.</li>
</ol>
<p>I could go and refute the ones from the 101 reasons to go to washu thing too. I mean who goes to washU because of holi and the swamp…I mean if you really wanted to roll in mud you can do it in your backyard. </p>
<p>No but in all seriousness…besides the high tuition vs my state school there isn’t much preventing me from going to washu. I know this applies to most other private instititutions as well. Food is amazing, cluster system is flexible and isn’t as bad as other elite colleges, campus bookstore/bear necessities has decent prices for gear, and WashU has back to back DIII basketball championships. </p>
<p>Also, I heard that my tour guide eats lobster for dinner, and I assumed she got it from the Loop. Exactly what place on campus serves that type of stuff?</p>
<p>Anthony, was her name Laura Foggart by chance? She went out of her way to be nice to my dad and I. She emailed me after the interview process even though she wasn’t the one that interviewed me. I wouldn’t even consider myself to be an “elite” candidate either, I was more like boundary line.</p>
<p>obviously no one goes to a school for one reason (you said Holi), that’s why we made a list of more than 1 reasons to go to Washu, specifically 101 reasons. I don’t think a list of 101 reasons to go to Harvard could be made without coming up with certain events similar to Holi.</p>
<p>This last year, they served lobster at Bear’s Den (it was kinda “seasonal,” and tended to reappear at the end of each semester and stuff). I never tried it, as I somehow burn through mealpoints like crazy, but the chefs did a good job at cooking other seafood I tried, so I assumed the lobster was pretty good. Old Wohl Center is gone now though, so I don’t know if there’ll be anything like that next year. I definitely hope so, though…</p>