<p>I just read this site and looked it up and only 20% is accepted. WTH? What is it about this school? I would never have even known about this school if I didnt know somebody in med school here. That's it. This is crazy. Why so hard? what makes it so good?</p>
<p>it has a massive marketing campaign to try and attract top applicants who apply to it as a safety while also applying to ivy caliber schools.washu, wanting to weasel itself up on usnews rankings waitlists applicants who have a chance of getting in elsewhere. That way they protect their yield.</p>
<p>it is selective because so many people apply to it as a safety( who later get waitlisted because of yield protection measures)</p>
<p>dont really understand how the waitlist improves their yield ???</p>
<p>i think the waitlist helps them have lots of enrollment
example: they take 1500 students and waitlist the rest of the 20000 students and if those 1500 don't attend, they substitude with the 20000, so they'll have guaranteed 100% enrollment. wat a plan</p>
<p>do they waitlist everyone that isn't accepted? That would **** with my head!</p>
<p>I believe last year they accepted around 4000 out of 20,000 applicants for a class of around 1350</p>
<p>sempitern555 seems a tad bitter to me, so im going to try and give a bit more objective theory. the way it seems to me is that in the years of being in the top 15 of US news, wash u has obviously built up quite a following. and there seem to be a lot people who selectivley follow those ratings, so they got a lot of applicants for a moderatley sized school. it's also ranked that high for a lot of reasons - yes they are selective about grades, but they also make it clear they want people who want to be there. the campus is beautiful and the school has an excellent reputation with anyone who's heard of it.</p>
<p>ps - every school does the waitlist thing...it's not a new idea or wash u trying to "weasel" ratings - they're at 11 right now, they can't go up much higher</p>
<p>Agree with sarasvati</p>
<p>but eventually this waitlist policy will create a backlash as it has done with me and all of the other college applicants I come into contact with</p>
<p>It's kind of undiscovered. Ranking-wise (which is something I usually try to avoid), it situates 9th.</p>
<p>It depends on your perspective.</p>
<p>On the one hand, you'd say that they use the waitlist to manipulate their yield rate, whether it's ethical or not. </p>
<p>On the other, you'd say that they use the waitlist like any other school does, and to guard against being used as an Ivy safety. </p>
<p>Either way, the result seems to be a ****load of highly qualified applicants (1400+ SATS, strong ranks and GPAs, etc.) getting waitlisted.</p>