<p>^ I surely will. 
If I get there!! :)</p>
<p>Got my first RD decision! Waitlisted on WUSTL⊠I prefer Northwestern primarily for my Econ major to WUSTL, but this ainât a good start. Prob because I didnât show any interest on WUSTL whereas I wrote tons of Northwesternâs unique and appealing econ academic curriculums. I canât wait for NU decision!!!</p>
<p>Iâve come across at least 15 people on CC whoâve been waitlisted by WUSTL and blame it on not showing enough interest!! Is this something that goes for every school?? Or is it something that holds good for WUSTL only???</p>
<p>Ohh never mind, Tufts syndrome!! :/</p>
<p>WUSTL apparently really really cares about demonstrated interest. W/L as well</p>
<p>@quiver, injustice - By when do you have to accept the wait list offer??</p>
<p>by May 1st</p>
<p>I donât mean this to sound harsh, but not showing interest wonât kill your application. There are other reasons schools decide on things. Itâs a crapshoot at top colleges like NU and WUSTL, but you canât just blame it on interest.</p>
<p>@crimsonstained - I beg to differ. I donât know about NU, but just go check out the stats class of 2017 page of CWRU & WUSTL!! :)</p>
<p>JRswish, one of the admissions counselors for WUSTL actually rooms the kids & parents how big of an admissions decision factor interest and contact is for them with a candidate. The only two from our school accepted were the two who did a full court press of interest to WUSTL. </p>
<p>You are spot on 
my DS was not surprised at his w/l because he didnât do much to court them, other than contact with the football coach to possibly play for them</p>
<p>Sent from my SGH-T769 using CC</p>
<p>I agree with rishav17, and itâs not just showing interest, itâs about yield protection and being âoverqualifiedâ. I got wait listed and didnât show that much interest I guess, but two of my highly qualified friends who visited, etc. were wait listed and rejected respectively. Theyâre going to get in somewhere amazing, and Iâve got a likely letter from UPenn so good for WashU I guess. It figured we would get into a Ivy type and go there instead, and thatâs probably right. Itâs WashUâs loss for all of us.</p>
<p>Top schools donât usually protect the yield because everyone usually wants to go there. You canât be overqualified for NU. They donât practice yield protection. Maybe WUSTL does, but NU definitely doesnât.</p>
<p>I agree that NU does not, but WashU definitely does. It makes sense I guess, they want to improve their yield and lower their acceptance rate to raise their rank. UChicago has been doing a similar thing recently and it has worked because it is already a very good school academically</p>
<p>Isnât it dumb to reject students at the top to increase rankings? Wouldnât it be a better bet to actually get some of those top students to come and increase your scores and such? To me it doesnât make your school better, it makes it worse.</p>
<p>Injustice, three years ago right now my daughter got waitlisted at WUSTL. It was the first school that she heard from (she hadnât applied anywhere early), and it set the tone for the whole month. She was sure she wouldnât get in anywhere. Then, towards the end of March (the 26th?), I heard a whoop come out of her room at about 11:30 p.m. She hadnât checked her e-mail all night, but when she opened it, there was her Northwestern acceptance. She was over the moon because she wanted to go to Northwestern so much more than to WUSTL. I mean, really, just compare Chicago/Evanston to St. Louis. OK, the Cardinals are a better baseball team.</p>
<p>@Crimsonstained7, WUSTL is somewhat infamous for putting a huge number of qualified applicants without demonstrated interest into waitlist in order to increase its yield and not get only ivy rejectees. Obviously, among qualified applicants without interests, there are some who are accepted and those who arenât. I donât blame or was aggravated by WUSTLâs waitlist policy as I didnât have much genuine interests. But I donât think such policy to increase the yield is something a top university should adopt just for ranking (higher yield contributes to higher ranking). If WUSTL really wanted to attract passionate students, they could have required supplement essays, one of them as âWhy WUSTLâ.</p>
<p>oh and to answer your question, if WUSTL give limited number of admission primarily for those with demonstrated interests, its yield goes up. Because it only gave out small number of admission, it will offer quite a few places for those who accepted waitlist. I think those who accept the waitlist spot also demonstrate pretty strong intentions of matriculation. (If they are already accepted to better and more favorable schools, they will likely not accept the spot on the waitlist.
@EnoughAlready, haha thanks. I wasnât so devastated. Actually, I was somewhat glad that I wasnât flat out rejected as Iâve seen others with better stats rejected. Also because I knew WUSTL waitlists tons of applicants each year, I was prepared for this. I donât think I stand any solid chance for some very top elite schools (H,M, and S) so my practical (or rather more hopeful) target schools are Chicago and Norhtwestern which both are great schools especially for econ major!</p>
<p>I agree with everything injustice said about WashU. They probably figure no one will choose them over HYP type schools, so itâs pointless to try and woo those students. They should definitely put in a supplement Why WashU essay, which will show interest and get rid of applicants who apply just because itâs easy. I personally think my Why NU essay showed a lot of passion and excitement for NUâs specific programs and environment, and WashU could definitely benefit from this type of essay.</p>
<p>@rishav17 honestly, I sort of donât think interest is the case with CWRU. I have no demonstrated interest, but I was accepted with 2300+ SAT and some SAT subjects 700+. But maybe I just got lucky loool. </p>
<p>March 28 is gonna be bonfire day for me!!</p>
<p>@luv2dance1995, but there is also a trick to adding supplement essays. As soon as WUSTL throws in supplement essays, the number of applicants would drop (I think significantly), which then, increases acceptance rate and lowers ranking competitiveness. WUSTL, I think, is trying to exploit both factors, which can be a dangerous game or even be a subject to denunciation.</p>