<p>It still says on website that the Decisions will be made on April 1st. Does anyone know for sure that it will be this friday March 10th, other than the fact last year was on a friday March 9th? Just wondering.</p>
<p>You probably won’t know ahead of time. Just check the pathway each day. A tab will appear on the left that says “Decision Notification.”</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1272221-admission-notification-dates-2012-a-3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1272221-admission-notification-dates-2012-a-3.html</a>
on college confidential admissions notificaton dates , it says washu will be postd online march l3th 2012.</p>
<p>Are you guys able to log in financial aid online through “Newly Admitted Student” tab? I saw somebody mentioned it in the other thread and tried it, I was actually able to log in from both “Prospective Students” and “Newly Admitted Students”. Not sure what to make of it?</p>
<p>@serendipitee i was pretty upset when i got deferred from stanford, but the way i say it now, it doesnt really matter since this process is really random and acceptances dont define you as a person. i have a decent number of schools in all (10) and im predicting that i’ll get into like 7 of them. So it’s pretty chill. And I havent been worrying too much about the whole process at all since january, i’ve just been focusing on my studies, track, mock trial, and math team</p>
<p>am i the only one who noticed that the creator of this thread said “Refular Decision”?</p>
<p>@ThousandMiles,</p>
<p>I noticed too. xD</p>
<p>^:D I was typing in my iPod touch, and I pressed f instead of g…:D</p>
<p>@ThousandMiles I was upset about Stanford as well, but after that life has been so chill lol. I think after worrying myself to death about one school makes me less worried about my other schools… I mean, I JUST started hovering around CC again come March. You’re doing mock trial as well? Mine’s coming up in a week and a half… getting nervous(:</p>
<p>And concerning the highest/upper-middle tiered students, my school creates scattergraphs that show the GPA & SAT scores of applicants. I’m not saying that the numbers are all that are necessary to get into college - believe me, I know - but all the students who had the highest GPA’s and highest SAT scores were consistently wait-listed at WashU. To AsianGinger, these kids weren’t “students with letters of recommendation from professors and government officials and who have done substantial research/started their own businesses/have 100 in-depth ECs/cured cancer,” but just kids with good teacher recs, good scores, and pretty good essays.</p>
<p>Then again, if you are in that situation and you’ve got stellar scores/essays and you get waitlisted, I’m sure WashU would accept you if you wrote a letter and appealed.</p>
<p>A while back, I heard a theory that perhaps “all the students who had the highest GPA’s and highest SAT scores were consistently wait-listed at WashU” was because they had better schools to apply to (Ivies) and WashU was probably one of their backups. Then again, just a theory I heard. But I’m guessing these kids you’re talking about probably got accepted into somewhere better and forgot all about WashU. </p>
<p>Personally, I’m just excited for the speculated early decision date :)</p>
<p>^ Yeah, those are the kids I’m talking about lol, and your theory isn’t incorrect at all. The thing is, whether or not WashU is my top choice or my highest-ranked school, I’m still REALLY interested and would really like to go… so I’d be ridiculously and disgustingly happy if they just straight up accepted me.</p>
<p>What I was saying with that exaggerated description is that I don’t think that any student can really be “over-qualified” for WashU, unless they, well, cured cancer or something like that.</p>
<p>Other threads have discussed how arguing that Wash U “passes over” better students fails to appreciate the high quality of Wash U students. Compare the average SAT scores at Wash U to other schools. There are very few that are higher even among the Ivies. Some students Harvard and the others admit are not the highest ranked in their schools. They look at other factors and most people are not shocked not to be admitted at Harvard. You don’t see comments that Harvard passed over the better student on purpose. But high ranked students think that they are somehow entitled to be accepted by Wash U. That is not the case, it is very diffucult to be accepted and the school looks at many factors.</p>
<p>will the decisions come out this friday March 9th or what? who knows for sure???</p>
<p>No one other than Wash U Admissions people know for sure and they will not tell you. I can tell you the ED decisions were exactly at the day and time predicted here. They came on a Friday at exactly 6:00 PM ET.</p>
<p>Ya that definitely happened to someone in my school last year. She got into Harvard, Yale, and Brown, but was wait listed at WashU. Clearly something’s up…</p>
<p>WashU does consider the level of the applicant’s interest. If WashU does not feel a person is strongly considering attending, they may place that student on the waitlist, no matter how qualified the applicant may be. I don’t think they waitlist someone solely because they have stellar stats. I think this approach is beneficial to the student body as a whole; everyone there seems to be there because they want to be, not because they had to “settle.” Or maybe that is just how it seems to me :)</p>
<p>does going to an info session and requesting and going through an interview (that went really well) if one is from New York and wasnt able to visit count as enough interest in the school?</p>
<p>I’ve heard that WashU takes interest into account as well. At the same time, I didn’t interview with them (wasn’t contacted), didn’t visit the campus or go to any information sessions, and was accepted with high stats (if I’m allowed to say so myself). Maybe I just got lucky? </p>
<p>Anyway, I feel like the admissions process is just so random and unpredictable that students who seem like the cream of the crop can be rejected by WashU and accepted by the Ivies without too much surprise - each school just has a different way of measuring a student. No one should discredit WashU for not accepting some students over others.</p>
<p>Batfan, I think applying for merit scholarships could be viewed as expressing interest. It does take time and effort to write the extra essays and ask for recommendations. Maybe WashU figured this was your way of showing them the love?</p>
<p>But I agree, there will always be those who have to be turned away simply because there are so many applicants and so few available spots. Each year gets more and more competitive.</p>