<p>It seems like WashU waitlists applicants rather than out right rejecting them. Does anyone know what percentage of applicants get waitlisted, from this year or otherwise previous years?</p>
<p>And is this year's acceptance rate down to 6.14%! They said 1350 got accepted out of 22000! All I have to say is wow.</p>
<p>No, I doubt the admit rate is that low. I'd assume that the materials say that out of 22000 applicants, 1350 are expected to enroll. Far more than that will be accepted.</p>
<p>According to the data I've seen about 35% of those accepted enroll, meaning about 4000 are admitted or an overall acceptance rate of about 18%...if anyone has the real #'s feel free to correct me</p>
<p>What does it mean when every single applicant from my school got waitlisted...?</p>
<p>Every applicant to WashU at my school got waitlisted too! Only two applicants though: me and my bro. :(</p>
<p>Yeah, we had at least like...15 applicants. All waitlisted so far.</p>
<p>Wow at least a couple thousand are waitlisted..</p>
<p>Waitlisted ....... darn financial aid need.</p>
<p>I suspect the financial aid to have kept quite a few people out. Does Wash U not give any type of need based aid or what?</p>
<p>I'd rather go to a bit lower tier school than paying the full washu cost for a couple of years. It is just not worth it, thats why I applied for financial aid to all my schools, regardless of not being need blind.</p>
<p>its a good thing im not too enamored with Wash U - i also got waitlisted but am honestly not THAT interested in attending - i think id rather go to wisconsin</p>
<p>i gotta say that i dont really like the way Wash U runs things. first all the super applicants get admitted, then they waitlist all who werent accepted... i know it may be strategic for them, but it still ****es me off</p>
<p>oh well</p>
<p>the super applicants don't get admitted...most of them got waitlisted. washU is known for waitlisting its super applicants because they know that a lot of them are ivy-bound students who use washU as their safety options. a RECORD number of people got waitlisted this year, it seems. </p>
<p>does anybody have the exact percentages of how many applicants this year got waitlisted/rejected/accepted?? i'm curious! and i'm sure a lot of other ppl would like to know too!</p>
<p>If you read the posts by someone who works in the admssions office the number of waitlists are estimated. The idea that "overqualifed candidates" are all waitlisted is kind of funny. There is no such thing as an overqualified candidate, just a lot of good ones. Many with top stats are accepted. How do you think they get the reported stats to begin with? I wonder where they would go given that the same type stats are on the waitlisted/rejected posts on the HYPSMC threads?</p>
<p>babycakes, that reasoning makes very little sense. i doubt washu would not accept any "superapplicants" because they would want their school to look good because of Rhodes Scholar calibur students. Also, if you look at the decisions thread, the students accepted have similar stats (and by that, i mean standardized test scores, gpa, ap scores, etc) as the waitlisted students...so it was probably extracurriculars, essays, and region that determined who got in.</p>
<p>besides, what exactly is a "superapplicant"?, considering many applicants with high test scores and gpa, and extraordinary accomplishments have been accepted. </p>
<p>if you want to still believe that you and many others were waitlisted because they are "superapplicants," go ahead and remain in denial.</p>
<p>haha i'm not in denial. i know i was waitlisted cuz i didn't quite make the cut. my gpa is horrible. i was just saying that washU is a school known for waitlisting many of their overqualified applicants cuz they know they're a fall back school for many ivy league bound students. nowhere in there did i say that i thought I was an overqualified person because i know that i am most definitely NOT a lock-in at any of these great schools, i'm just taking my shot ;) read stuff carefully before you accuse, that'd be great, thanks.</p>
<p>and the reason i say that about washU is because that is what dave berry said to me in my stats evaluation...so um. i'm just taking a college counselor's word for it. i think that means something, no? in no way am i saying that washU is inferior to the ivy league schools, i'm just saying that that is probably the reason why so many great applicants (again, i'm not referring to myself in any way) get waitilisted when they should be accepted!</p>
<p>This monsterous waitlist seems a bit unfair because basically WashU is giving themselves the chance to form their student body AFTER finding out who is going to attend.</p>
<p>I used to not feel so bad about this aweful admissions process because i realized that the colleges basically have to go through it too...but thousands on a waitless? cmon thats just plain greedy!</p>
<p>ohh btw i was waitlisted! haha</p>
<p>I was waitlisted too. Another guy in my school's also waitlisted.
So far, I haven't seen any rejected applicant.</p>
<p>Well, I feel like I shouldn't have accepted the waitlist cauz it seems like everyones waitlisted, and Washu's playing some kind of game with us.</p>
<p>so you would rather be rejected?</p>
<p>at least washu is not like most of the ivy league schools which flat out reject very capable students</p>
<p>I think it's pretty much the same thing. Since Wash U. accepted zero waitlisted students in 2006, it seems to me that "waitlisted" is a euphamism for "rejected."</p>