<p>I also find it so interesting how students want to make a decision as to which school to attend based on which is more “prestigious,” as if it will have a better outcome for them once they graduate. What they fail to recognize is that if a school is a top 20 school, there is no “boost” based on the rankings. What it comes down to as to whether a student will get a job or admission to a graduate school, is the student themselves and what they achieve as an undergraduate. There are some programs at some schools that are feeder programs to a particular employer – such as Rice computer science graduates getting snatched up by Microsoft – but that doesn’t cover the entire school and it’s still dependent on a student’s performance.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if a student is merely looking for “oohs and ahhs” by neighbors and relatives for matriculating at a school with the best name recognition, then you should choose a school that has the best basketball team.</p>
<p>“On the other hand, if a student is merely looking for “oohs and ahhs” by neighbors and relatives for matriculating at a school with the best name recognition, then you should choose a school that has the best basketball team.”</p>
<p>To be fair, I think people would be more impressed by a graduate of Harvard, than say a graduate of Louisville - unless the person actually played on the team.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why people come here and make such baselss statements. I don’t see any point of such baseless statements. When the admission officers make decision, they look at many things (of course academic data is one of the most important factors). Therefore, it is very difficult to describe the qualification of an applicant in a few sentence. That is why applicants submit so much data and information when they apply. How do applicants know if they are “Qualified” or “Overqualified” applicants? It can be only subjective view if they know. I know one of my high school friends got into
Dartmouth while he was denied by Emory. Then, can we say that he was denied by Emory because he was overqualified?</p>
<p>I don’t understand why you guys think I’m acting like I know everything about college admissions; I was just giving my opinions like you guys are. My advice to the OP is too ask for advice on the Cornell forum as well and too actually talk to students at both schools.</p>
<p>“And its just pure denial to say that WashU doesn’t wait list overqualified applicants. Its a fact that they do.”</p>
<p>“I don’t understand why you guys think I’m acting like I know everything about college admissions; I was just giving my opinions like you guys are.”</p>
<p>Yeah, no clue how we got that impression. Anyways, I think this thread has definitely passed it’s point of helpfulness. I won’t be posting here any more, and I encourage others to not let it devolve into mudslinging and bashing (or at least any more than it already has )</p>
<p>As a WashU student, I would definitely say agree with vickramreddy when he says that people on the street MAY recognize cornell more than washU. However, among employees, they recognize that washU is a top school, no less than Cornell. There’s a reason that WashU has been ranked #1 as the most stressful school in the nation, it’s because kids here are extremely intelligent and work extremely hard while maintaining a collaborative environment. I have never been happier in my life than at WashU, yet I’ve also never envisioned myself working so hard. For Pre-Med I would definitely say WashU over… almost ever other school. It’s also very safe here, many of my friends go the med center to work and never have felt unsafe. It’s very close by and relatively safe; just be smart.</p>
<p>what we see here with vikramreddy is the classic “little man syndrome”
Around this time it is so common to see people stalking the threads of schools they were denied to in order to make themselves feel better.
The bottom line is that this has resorted to petty personal attacks because of his baseless objections to a stellar school.
Now on to the purpose of this thread. The WashU premed program simply cannot be beat. Along with a great academic reputation and a top 4 Business school, WUSTL is known for its phenomenal premed track.
Sure, WUSTL may not have name recognition to the average joe, but guess what? Those who matter know washU and will be so impressed by a degree from there.
At the end of the day, go where you feel at home. That’s the most important thing :)</p>
<p>Thank you everyone for your input and I am sorry that my question had created such a big debate. WashU is a great school and my best impression about it is its personal attention to us during our visit last summer. An admission officer spent over an hour with my daughter and I answering our questions. I feel that they really care about their students. Unfortunately they waitlisted our daughter while Cornell accepted her. Last month, my daughter visited Cornell again, stayed in the dorm, attended some classes and information sessions. She also spent time until the end of April to get to know about Cornell through internet search and finally developed a sense of attachment to it. A day given by WashU (after the phone call that offered the admission) was just too short for her to swap her attachment from Cornell to WashU. If WashU had also accepted her in the first place, she would have equal opportunity to ponder on both schools and could (I am not saying she would) choose WashU over Cornell.</p>
<p>I also ran into the following link on another thread that rates the feeder schools to the top 5 grad schools in medicine, business and law. [url=<a href=“InPathWays - Discover latest hot new trending topic, insights, analysis”>InPathWays - Discover latest hot new trending topic, insights, analysis]IPCN</a> Library<a href=“click%20on%20the%20View%20Full%20Text%20to%20see%20the%20ranking”>/url</a> In this rating, Cornell is rated 25 while WashU is rated 47. But this doesn’t show a complete picture on the premed program because the data was combined for all three types of professional schools. Also, it is only based on the overall percentage of the graduates going to the top 5 grad schools.</p>
<p>wsj-weekend pages online.wsj.com/documents/wsj<em>college</em>092503.pdf
Sep 26, 2003 –
Here’s the date they published the original list IPCN referenced.</p>
<p>If you don’t mind me asking, what kind of things did y’all who got off the waitlist do to demonstrate interest after you had been waitlisted? I’m currently on the waitlist but haven’t done anything to show interest. Probably a mistake hahaha…</p>
<p>Also, does anybody know how long people who get off the wait list are given to decide? Because when I called admissions they said they are still waiting to see the yield of the wait list acceptees before they decide whether they are going to take more kids off…I’m not sure what this means because the OP said her daughter only had a day to decide…so technically WashU should already know the yield of the first round wait list acceptees. Thanks again!</p>
<p>If you look at post #6 on this thread, one of the persons taken from the waitlist stated that they accepted for now but final decision in 5 days. I assume that this gives them a chance to receive and review financial aid package.</p>
<p>My son has decided not to go WashU even though he was luckily accepted off the waitlist.
Good luck everyone!!
P.S.
The formal admission package (including a “confidential” fanancial aid notice) arrived my home (overnight FedEx) on May 4. The decision deadline is May 8, 2013 (need to pay $450 deposit by this deadline).</p>
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