<p>The strange thing is, I was at an info session at Wash U about a year and a half ago and one person asked the admissions officer if there was an advantage to applying ED, and if there was a better chance of being accepted. He replied that yes, there was a slightly better chance of getting in but he didn’t give any concrete stats. This is mostly due to ED applicants being very interested in the school, and less people apply ED in general. Wash U is very big on demonstrated interest and an ED application shows this interest (or so I think).</p>
<p>I got that vibe too. The thing is applicant interest can only help so much. I wonder if there is a certain number cap that the admissions officers accept or if there is no limit to how many they accept in ED. Also, when I had an interview, they marked me down as having the interview, but the lady took no notes of me. It almost seemed like the interview itself meant nothing, and the fact that you just did it is what counted.</p>
<p>I’m secretly hoping that only 500 people apply ED…then they’ll have to let us all in 
AHH GUYS 3 days…I’ll freak out if they wait until the 14th</p>
<p>Some comments on the last few post:
The interview is just a check off and is mostly for the benefit of the candidate.</p>
<p>I would expect ED decisions to be posted on Pathway Fri, Dec 7th at 6:00 PM CT.</p>
<p>I would expect WashU to accept approximately 500 ED applicants (that is what they have done the last two years).</p>
<p>I believe the ED acceptance rate was approximately 25% last year (500 accepted/2,000 applicants). This isn’t confirmed. I didn’t look for the posts last year.</p>
<p>WashU’s (an other universities) goal with ED is to sure up a specific percentage of their incoming class. It was previously reported WashU has 500 ED acceptances which gives them approximately 30% of their incoming class.</p>
<p>WashU ended up with a 2016 Fr class of 1,600. You can see the numbers from my post last year on RD it calculates the RD acceptance rate at 16.7%. The big difference is that only 30% of RD accepted applicants enroll at WashU. Where close to 100% of ED accepted applicants do.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/14016208-post4.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/14016208-post4.html</a></p>
<p>So there is an advantage to applying ED for both the applicants and WashU.</p>
<p>onecot59- do you think that all 2000 or so ED applicants are highly qualified, and that decisions will be really competitive (people with good stats get rejected)? or do you think that many of them are underqualified and applying ED in hopes that the higher acceptance rate will help them out?</p>
<p>Christine - i have no idea.
What it seemed to me last year was the top well rounded applicants got accepted ED - high GPA, good SAT/ACT scores and good ECs. There could have been top well rounded applicants that did get deferred or rejected ED. I don’t recall seeing the stats of a top applicant that didn’t get accepted ED but they may not have posted on the ED Decision thread.</p>
<p>Did you post your your stats on a decision thread?</p>
<p>RD seemed like a lottery to me. Some of the best statistical applicants got wait listed - including applicants with high 2300 SATs. There is speculation that WashU does that for some reason - either to improve their stats or because they feel they are a second choice or safety school for those top applicants. I don’t why but they do wait list some highly rated applicants.</p>
<p>Accidently for my top extracurricular on the Common Application Activities Tab, I left the part where you put the position, position held, honors won, or employer blank. I did mark that the activity was JV/VARSITY Tennis and listed that this was my top priority. However, I failed to mark that I was and have been on the Varsity Tennis Team since sophomore year. Will this be a problem or can they clearly see this is important in my life due to the number of hours put into this activity?</p>
<p>I can’t believe myself for overlooking such a huge detail. I could have sworn that I clearly marked Varsity Tennis Team when I looked over my application. Also, in my case, all I have going for me are demonstrated interest, extracurriculars, and essays. It is a far shot but i’ve been in contact with my admissions officer and another person from admissions since the end of junior year.</p>
<p>So is the notification date friday?</p>
<p>im thinking we’ll hear back on the 14th. in the past years, wash u has released decisions on the friday before the 15th, which in the past few years has been around this friday or so. because the 15th is a saturday this year, the friday before is the 14th.</p>
<p>someone should call the office to confirm the notification date</p>
<p>No. They never release that information. You’re wasting your time.</p>
<p>I’m not too sure why everyone thinks decisions will be released this Friday - that would be the earliest release in recent years (at least, according to other threads on CC). By following the ‘first Friday before the latest date’ rule, we should expect decisions next week on December 14th, shouldn’t we?</p>
<p>they usually post the decisions online some time before the actual packet is mailed. posting the decisions on Dec 14th would be kind of weird since most people would already have their decisions by then. Dec 15th is the date they said that you should have your mail by.</p>
<p>Didn’t they say they would mail them on dec 15? If that’s true then people won’t get their mail for a few days after that at least and the 14th would make sense.</p>
<p>We’re getting our decisions in the mail BY the 15th, which means it’ll be sometime next week probably. We’ll most likely get our decisions ONLINE this Friday. Just because there was a leap year, doesn’t mean they wouldn’t follow the rule that it’s posted online the Friday before the week of the 15th. As Jgli95 said, it wouldn’t make sense to post them on the 14th online since most people will have already received in the mail by then.</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarification vipers, now I’m a little more hopeful.</p>
<p>Admissions staff definitely look at all these threads and just laugh at everyone guessing the wrong date.</p>
<p>Just a little more than a day left before decisions!! (Possibly)</p>
<p>If the decisions are coming out tomorrow, don’t you think they would have told us already?</p>
<p>I remember last year my daughter called the admissions office the day before the release of decisions and they said that they would be released on the official release date, so no there is absolutely no notice given.</p>
<p>On the washu website it says that the decisions will be mailed out ON the 15th. So I’m thinking that we probably won’t get the online decisions until the 14th…(though I think I’ll go crazy with anxiety if we have to wait another week) :(</p>