<p>Can you send the teacher recommendations in one large envelope? As in all the recommendations for all the scholarships I'm applying to. Or do you have to submit each scholarship in a smaller envelope individually?</p>
<p>I’d play it safe and use individual envelopes for each scholarship.</p>
<p>We’re FedExing one big envelope. I will put each scholarship application/recs in a smaller envelope. I’m not paying twice for FedEx!</p>
<p>^^^^^Smart!</p>
<p>I emailed them a couple months ago, and they said it’s fine to put the recs in one big envelope.</p>
<p>@Odd Monkey, did you apply for more than one scholarship? Or did you apply for just one and sent the two recs together?</p>
<p>Is it me or does it seem like Wustl goes out of the way to make the process cumbersome?
My kid did the common app, then has to do the schools pre-app, all of which was redundant. Then its unclear if you need to mail
In teacher recs if they are submitted by common app. Of all the application processes, wustl was the worst. </p>
<p>This is a safety school for my child, they spent hundreds of dollars in mailings to her, but the app
Process is so needlessly full of red tape I cannot imagine how difficult it would be to get classes there. </p>
<p>Sorry to vent, but after all the redundant forms, the scholarship apps requiring second recs, the odd payment method, and the love they have of red tape, I can sincerely say I wish they’d take a look at it from an applicants view.</p>
<p>dadwonders, I was thinking the same thing.</p>
<p>I would really like it if they saw the benefits of the digital age and start letting teachers upload their essays. It would be a win win for everyone…maybe the post office will suffer.</p>
<p>They accept faxes. I asked them twice.</p>
<p>I know, dadwonders! I woke up early this morning realizing we had to mail rec’s for this scholarship separately, along with additional forms…so, we were scrambling before school - now my D is sheepishly asking her teachers for just one more favor (with zero turn-around)…of course, my D thinks all can be done online, so she missed this little procedure…yikes!</p>
<p>@wake me.- I think my kid has given up. Too many hoops to jump through, and her teachers and councellors have been really helpful. The whole application process has been one thing after another with this (and only this) school. </p>
<p>She applied for one Scholarship. The people making that choice MUST have an idea if a student will be offered admission or not, so they MUST have access to the application and teacher recs…(If MUST is too strong, SHOULD can be substitued! lol).</p>
<p>She damn near drowned in piles of suppliments, sending out test scores, etc, etc. Now we begin the Financial aid rush. WUSTL just became the school she would only consider if every other school turned her down.</p>
<p>The funny thing is: No other school sent as much paperwork, letters, brochures, class descriptions. Our running joke was “What did Washington send today” for almost two years.</p>
<p>^^^^ dadwonders - LOL - we just received another postcard from Wash St.L !!! They do seem to be on top of everything -I guess they want their applicants to be that way too…but it is a lot to do - esp when you factor in the # of schools students are applying to these days - everything is multiplied. </p>
<p>Yep, next step - the Fin Aid maze - should be fun.</p>
<p>I’ll admit that you shouldn’t have to send in extra teacher recs for the scholarships if you don’t want to. I was under the impression that they could see your whole application anyway. However, I believe the purpose of it is to allow someone who didnt write a rec before to comment more specifically on the student’s potential in that scholarship’s specific field. e.g. The physics professor on his/her aptitude specifically in physics for the physics scholarship that may not have been delved into as deeply in the original rec.</p>
<p>Second, and I don’t intend to sound arrogant when I say this, WashU is not a safety for anyone. Sorry. For any of the top 15 schools, admissions is enough of a crapshoot that no one is safe unless you’ve been given a likely letter or a coach tells you that you are definitely in. Your daughter may have a good chance, but its not a safety.</p>
<p>@newprov29: You are correct, I was not clear about “Safety” school. It is a highly competitive university. I should have stated that the acceptance letter from there (to her) would be less important than getting accepted at other (not “top 15”) schools.</p>
<p>“Safety” was certainly not correct. I still maintain that they have made the application process more cumbersome than needed, and certainly more so than peer universities.</p>
<p>ok, now I understand what you meant.</p>
<p>…and I agree with part 2. haha</p>
<p>I actually have to disagree with some of the opinions above. Wash U is one of the few top schools that does not require additional essays in their supplements, making their application much easier than most. My daughter found it a pleasure to just fill in easy info on part 1 rather than writing multiple essays specific to the school. That she had to follow a path to another link to pay her application fee took a trivial amount of effort on her part. </p>
<p>When dadwonders remarked that his daughter “damn near drowned in piles of supplements, sending out test scores, etc, etc. Now we begin the Financial aid rush” I’m not sure how this would differ from any other school, except that the supplement was easier. Is there any other top school where you don’t have to send test scores or can get financial aid without doing the paperwork?</p>
<p>As for the scholarships, obviously no one is required to do them. Those students motivated enough do, those who aren’t don’t. They would probably rather award them to motivated students anyway. I personally would rather see my daughter compete for scholarships against a more limited number of applicants than the 20,000+ students who apply for admission if it only required them to check “yes” in a box. </p>
<p>As for the school itself, I have another student there and it is wonderful. They pour resources and attention on the students, and the administration is responsive and well run. Best of all, the students are bright, friendly and unpretentious. All in all, it’s a great place. I think the real issue is not any ridiculously hard requirements imposed by the school to apply for admission but the fact that any amount of work on an application feels like too much if a student is not very enthusiastic about attending the school anyway. Fortunately, this process is almost over. I wish everyone’s kids the best of luck in admissions wherever they apply.</p>
<p>If it’s such a bummer, do us all a favor and withdraw your daughter’s application!</p>
<p>I totally agree with CCpost. WashU’s application was one of the easiest among the top schools (the Stanford application with everything using their labels was among the worst!!). You are applying for $160,000 for 4 years… think what a pain FAFSA and CSS profile is and you don’t even know what and if you are getting any FA for it. Competitive scholarship such as UVA Jefferson Scholarship have 3 rounds of interviews (regional, semifinalist, finalist) so it’s hoops upon hoops to get scholarship money from top schools since there are so many qualified applicants. At least Washu has merit money that you can apply to unlike the Ivies and comparable institutions (Northwestern, MIT, etc.)</p>
<p>Why is the deadline extended yet again?</p>