<p>Tell your university to quit spamming everyone!</p>
<p>Mind elaborating?</p>
<p>If you or anyone else you know wishes to be taken off the WU mailing list, they can easily let our Admissions Office know of their request.</p>
<p>My university told you to stop being so critical of its attempt to be finally recognized for being such a great institution.</p>
<p>But seriously, WashU's in kind of a silly double-bind here... either people moan about it being a relative no-namer or they complain about the massive amount of glossy mail that shows up in their driveway. Cut us some slack, yeah?</p>
<p>(That said, I feel you on this, honestly. I was still getting junk mail from WU at home AFTER moving into the dorms. My parents forwarded it to my campus box as a joke.)</p>
<p>Munited,
Thanks to the unsolicited mail, my S discovered WUSTL, he went to visit the campus and now he is a very happy student. He took advantage of all the “spaming” to look for a better fit for him, and at the end of his homework, he applied to four schools and was accepted in all, which means he did a good job. When his senior year ended, he had 87 pounds of recycle paper from colleges’ mail, he was grateful for that because it gave him the opportunity to know each institution. If you are a very good student with outstanding records, take a look at the WUSTL mail to see if the school is for you; if you don’t qualify, the ones who wasted their money were they, so if you are a responsible person, it takes you less than a minute to opt out of their mailing list.</p>
<p>Wait, you Munited, I'm assuming you're bitter about this "spamming" because you're already at college (Cornell maybe?). If so, just unsubscribe....</p>
<p>Cressmom,</p>
<p>If Munited is in Cornell an Ivy school, why he/she bothered reading spam from an regional school.</p>
<p>I wouldn't call WashU a regional school....</p>
<p>and as Bill Nye said, Cornell is WashU times .7!</p>
<p>If WashU weren't regional. Cressmom's s had known WashU before receiving spam mail.</p>
<p>college2go, my S applied to Cornell University before applying to Wash U, and he was accepted with the Engineering's Dean Merit scholarship, he was invited to go there all expenses paid and he did, but after visiting Wash U, he fell in love with the campus, the program, the dorms, and the people, and he didn't want to enroll at Cornell.
If Wash U sends all the information to the high school juniors and seniors, it is because many of them don’t know (like you) that Wash U is a huge research university, with a beautiful campus, gorgeous dorms, excellent food, and one of the best programs for every field. Being in the Midwest doesn’t mean it is isolated, you have everything you need in less than 2 miles radius and you won’t find that at Cornell, but I have to admit that Wash U it’s more expensive.</p>
<p>college2go, that is not true, I knew about Wash U, but I didn't know how nice it was. I think that everybody knows that the 2000 presidential debate was at Wash U, it wouldn't be there if it wasn't a well known university</p>
<p>"... and one of the best programs for every field..."
I don't think so. Washu is a second rate engineering school.</p>
<p>This ardent indignation over mail is just strange. You don't want the mail, toss it in the basket for recycling without a second thought. Takes less than a second and doesn't blight your life in any way. </p>
<p>We also were grateful for the mailings here in CA since we knew about WashU from a neighbor's daughter who went through the business school, but didn't know any specifics other than that she loved going there. In one of the mailings was info that got my son interested --- integrated programs in philosophy and neuroscience and integrated programs in humanities. Made him want to visit the campus and he also fell in love with the look and layout of the campus and the midwestern niceness of people he met, from students to staff. Loved it enough to choose it over schools with more name recognition, including Cornell and Northwestern, not to mention UCLA and UCB. He is very happy there. If the college finds it effective to send out a lot of mail to find prospective students such as my son and encourage them to visit, then that's what they should keep doing.</p>
<p>College2go, I would agree with you on the subpar engineering quality of WashU for a school of its caliber in all other areas, but this is why they are investing a ton of money into the engineering school in the next few years to bring new professors and erect new buildings. And still, Bimomedical Engineering is one of the best in the nation at WashU and this is at the Engineering school...</p>
<p>College2go,
Either you have been sticking your head in the sand all this time or you don't research colleges carefully. WashU as an overall institution may not have as big a name as its peers (keep in mind that WashU has been around only for 150 years), but its top-rate programs ARE famous:</p>
<p>Being avid in science, I have known about WashU before I've known about Cornell, Dartmouth, or Caltech. For the people who are serious about science, WashU is a huge name. I once listened to one of the world's top microbiologists talk about the institutions he's worked with, and he noted that even back in his day (several decades back), WashU was the center of life sciences in the US and numerous Nobel Prize winners have worked on the campus (it is true, go check out famous alumnis from WashU).</p>
<p>But WashU isn't only good at science. In a recent study, its architecture program has been ranked as 6th in the nation, tied with Cornell. This study looked at offers from top architecture firms for recently graduated college students as well as architecture productivity. </p>
<p>Also, WashU is HUGE on anthropology. This department was recently ranked #2 for research publications productivity and citations. Go google top graduate anthropology programs" and WashU will be one of the first links you see. </p>
<p>And yes, the biomedical engineering deparment is one of the top in the nation. The physics department is top-notch; it has numerous awards and research is constantly going on. I expect the overall engineering department will be making leaps and bounds over the next few years as WashU is continuing improving the quality of its programs.</p>
<p>What can I say? Yes, I'm a Californian and I knew a lot about WashU, waayyy before they sent me mail. Yes, I received a lot of mail from WashU, as I did from other institutions such as Caltech, MIT, Upenn, etc. I chose WashU over good schools like Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, and Duke, because after visiting the WashU campus, I was enthralled. </p>
<p>In conclusion, WashU is just a beautiful school with increasing recognition. I would not say people are recognizing its reputation; rather, WashU has always had a great reputation that has been latent until the past several years.</p>
<p>To add on, WashU's earth and planetary science program is awesome-they worked on the Mars Rovers!!</p>
<p>and genomics....WashU was instrumental in the Human Genome Project.</p>
<p>And the chancellor invented glowsticks!</p>
<p>Isn't WashU's poli-sci program one of the top in the country as well??</p>
<p>eleph--are you serious?! That is just about the coolest thing um...ever.</p>