<p>Yes, WashU is need-sensitive so they knew i’d need about 20k/yr in aid. However, I’ve heard they also use the waitlist for qualified applicants who don’t show much interest because they don’t want to become a safety for kids shooting for the Ivys (aka an Ivy reject school). I made a fool of myself on the WashU boards trying to discuss it because it just sounded like I was bragging/dissing their admissions, but honestly I thought it made sense - it WAS a safety for me and I’m glad my waitlist means someone more interested can be accepted.</p>
<p>From last year’s results for my son with high financial need:</p>
<p>Accepted to all ten schools: MIT, Princeton, Caltech, Harvey Mudd, WUSTL, Penn, Vanderbilt, Pitt, Baylor, and UT Dallas.</p>
<p>WUSTL offered my son the least amount of money (as he didn’t get the full tuition scholarship). Vandy, Caltech, and UTDallas offered basic full rides (I’m lumping in both merit and/or need-based). Princeton was the next generous followed by MIT.</p>
<p>sbjdorlo, where did your son end up going? That’s a wonderful list of schools! :)</p>
<p>Oh sorry I wasn’t clear. He’s a freshman at MIT.</p>
<p>Admitted: MIT, UCLA</p>
<p>Waitlisted: Columbia, UChicago</p>
<p>Rejected: Harvard, Penn, Berkeley, USC, Stanford, Cornell</p>
<p>How is it that I got into my first choice that had a 6% admit rate for males, and got rejected from so many ‘lesser’ schools?</p>
<p>The only conclusion I can come to is that most schools (as I expected) viewed my unorthodox education and application as a weakness (despite upper percentile objective stats at some of these schools), while MIT, with it’s own more holistic application and progressive policies, viewed my unusualness as a strength.</p>
<p>Or maybe I bombed the common app… But that wouldn’t explain berkeleys rejection, although their engineering does have a low 13% admit rate… ?</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT, Cornell, Purdue, Georgia Tech (EA), RPI, University of Florida
Rejected: none</p>
<p>Rejected: Yale lol</p>
<p>I just got waitlisted at Yale. Better than I expected, lol. And I took a place on the waitlist, but I’m not sure why…I’m 99% sure I’m going to MIT.</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT, Stanford
Rejected: Harvard which I spent like 15 minutes on hahaha</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT, Stanford, UChicago, University of Florida, University of Southern California, UC Berkeley.
Rejected: CalTech, Harvard.
Waitlisted: Vanderbilt (I don’t even know what happened, nor do I care at this point :)).</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT, Princeton, UChicago, UC Berkeley
Waitlisted: Harvard, Caltech
Rejected: Stanford, Columbia</p>
<p>Accepted EA to MIT, waitlisted at Stanford and Princeton.</p>
<p>A little disappointed about Stanford but MIT was my top choice anyway. I don’t think I would’ve fit well at Princeton and I didn’t even bother applying to Harvard/Yale for that reason.</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT, UPenn, Brown, Cornell, Purdue, and UChicago
Rejected: Harvard and Yale (was my second choice :’( )</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT, Princeton, USC, Georgia Tech, UCLA, Auburn, Alabama</p>
<p>Rejected: UC Berkeley</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT, Caltech, Harvey Mudd, Carnegie Mellon, UIUC, UMich
Waitlisted: WashU
Rejected: Harvard</p>
<p>Still deciding on where to go</p>
<p>^^
MIT/Caltech acceptance, WashU waitlist ==> Diagnosis: Tufts syndrome</p>
<p>Daughter who applied for fin aid:</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT, Caltech, Yale, Cornell, CMellon, Carleton, UCBerkeley, Harvey Mudd, UChicago
Waitlisted: Princeton, Wustl
Rejected: Stanford</p>
<p>Going to: MIT !</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT (attending!!!), Columbia, Duke, Notre Dame, Umich (business pre-admit), safeties</p>
<p>Waitlisted: Georgetown, Northwestern</p>
<p>Rejected: Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell</p>
<p>Accepted EA/Rolling: MIT!!! Case Western, Texas A&M
Accepted RA: Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech</p>
<p>Rejected: University of Texas at Austin</p>
<p>The one school i was rejected happens to be only 15 minutes from my house, and is a state school. What’s with that?</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT, Harvard, JHU, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, UF, UM
Waitlisted then accepted: Duke
Denied: none :)</p>