<p>i also dont feel like arguing over such a stupid matter... but your story just doesnt hold up...</p>
<p>Is it not possible that this girl is lying to everyone.</p>
<p>I thought about doing that..just telling everyone I got into princeton but I couldn't afford it...but I wouldn't be able to live with myself..esp over something so stupid</p>
<p>i am so sick of this ****. i told myself i wouldn't get involved but i am so fed up.</p>
<p>those of who who are still *****ing about wash u's admissions, shut the hell up. grow up. move on.</p>
<p>don't diss my school.</p>
<p>some of you people really **** me off....
if you had gotten into wash u you would all be ecstatic and bragging about it, but they didnt accept you, because you weren't qualified in their eyes...
its not about them not being prestigious, because you wouldnt have applied there and been this upset about it if it wasnt a good school...
northwestern is a good school too, i dont really like it and i visited, but i still respect it...
some of you are just really ****ed because you weren't good enough after all of the work you did, guess what!>!?? it happens, so deal with it and be happy you applied elsewhere and still managed to get into a decent school, o yeah and shut the hell up about wash u being a bad school just because they didnt accept you... obviously they are a good judge of character based on the crap you post</p>
<p>some of you are sadly mistaken. what, you say wash. u is like any other elite school out there? everyone who was waitlisted just wasn't qualified enough?</p>
<p>i have been waitlisted at washington, haverford, and emory. why? i'm sure many of you would tell me that a) i'm not qualified enough, b) there were just too many qualified candidates to choose from this year, or c) that i should have taken to visit all of those schools (which i did not, both for time and financial reasons, which were both factors which were obviously out of my control).</p>
<p>now, let's see where i've been accepted. amherst send me an early RD letter a few weeks ago. i was accepted by northwestern (school of music and college of arts&sciences) last week. pomona accepted me on monday, and duke today. now, i'm not trying to be conceited here, but the last time i checked, all four of these colleges are more difficult to get into than washington university.</p>
<p>i'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade, really. i understand that wash. u is a great school, with great faculty and student body. that's why i applied in the first place. but given all of that, it does annoy me that some schools do indeed reject "overqualified" candidates (or so it seems).</p>
<p>just my two cents. take it or leave it.</p>
<p>now you seem like the type of person to look at numbers and rankings for this sort of thing, and that suggests to me that you actually HAVE NOT checked them lately....</p>
<p>Northwestern
sat 1389
act 30
applicants accepted 33%</p>
<p>Pomona
sat 1460
act 32
applicants accepted 20%</p>
<p>Amherst
sat 1422
act 31
applicants accepted 21%</p>
<p>Duke
sat not reported
verbal 650-740
math 670-770
act 30
applicants accepted 22%</p>
<p>Wash U
sat not reported
verbal 660-740
math 690-780
act not reported
composite 30-33
applicants accepted 22%</p>
<p>OMG What do you know? Wash U better stats than duke and northwestern, and most people would say better than pomona and amherst, including national rankings... o yeah, that is all from the princeton review website, not out of my you know what like most of your stats come from, genius</p>
<p>get the facts straight next time you want to bash a school</p>
<p>Stats and rankings don't tell the whole story but since you seem to like Princeton Review stats... you forgot to check the "toughest to get into" list. </p>
<h1>9 Duke, #13 Pomona, #14 Amherst. Where oh where is your beloved Wash U.? Sorry your school is a rankings whore and wants to boost that pretty sad yield rate.</h1>
<p>the Princeton review "toughest to get into" list is a student produced list. It isn't that accurate at all.</p>
<p>Duke is def well above all those schools, then Amherst is in a comfortable 2nd, but WUSTL is easily as good as or better than Pomona and Northwestern.</p>
<p>so i'd have to say WUSTL lies somewhere between jordan's and dreamside's opinions.</p>
<p>And plenty of kids get rejected from schools like penn and brown and get in at Harvard, Harvard is what #1 on US news, Brown is #12? Is Brown rejecting overqualified students to improve it's yield? Face it, you guys didn't have what it takes to get in there, and I dont necessarily mean SAT scores or GPA, so don't start spitting out your numbers. I mean overall, when they took everything into account, you just weren't good enough. And there's nothing wrong with that, if you didn't want to go there, then be happy you didnt make the cut.</p>
<p>will everyone shut up about wash u's yield rate? i thought we discussed how yield doesn't play a factor in rankings anymore</p>
<p>"you just weren't good enough. And there's nothing wrong with that, if you didn't want to go there, then be happy you didnt make the cut"</p>
<p>umm, actually not really, during my interview, the alum was really happy and laughing until I told her that I had not visited. Then I saw her write in big lettes "NO VISIT" at the bottom of the review page. That's what causes me to post on this board</p>
<p>wow shut up</p>
<p>if you got in, congrats</p>
<p>if you didn't, sorry. i'm sure you got in somewhere else</p>
<p>just let us who got in be happy</p>
<p>jordanfan,</p>
<p>NU's admission rate is misleadingly high because of common application, or lack thereof. With the super-busy schedule many top high school kids have today, most will not bother with NU's application unless they are really interested in the school. Had they used common application, it's pool would significantly increase in size. I think people should appreciate schools like Northwestern and Chicago when the trend is to go common to increase its selectivity ranking. Your stats don't convey the self-selected nature of the applicants that schools like U Chicago/Northwestern/Stanford have.</p>
<p>Wash U has very odd admissions. I was rejected here, but waitlisted at Harvard, and got into some other great schools as well.</p>
<p>jordanfan,</p>
<p>I'd also like to mention NU's adcom (Chicago's also) focus HEAVILY on essays (the main, the "why NU", and 4 short ones) that they design. If you check out NU's admission site, you'll see eassys are put under the "most important" category, carrying the same weight as class rank and test scores. Most other schools (even many top-tier ones) consider essays "very important" but not as important as class rank and test scores and not to the extent NU does. Admission stats don't tell you this either.</p>
<p>good point sam lee, i did actually hear that when i was on campus at nu, but that doesnt mean that essays dont play a huge role elsewhere... anyways, hope u got in where u wanted to go, i got into the ones i applied to and am thrilled and eager to start next year at wash u</p>
<p>LOL! I wish I were that young. I was a freshman at Wash U but graduated from NU.</p>
<p>ABirch--Dude the waitlist at Harvard is the world's longest line to nowhere. At least WashU had the balls to say you're not up to par.</p>
<p>has any1 got REJECTED from washu? i know im WAITLISTED, but at least harvard wrote to say that they "could not offer me admission"... i feel like washu just doesnt have the courage to tell anybody they are rejectees and just "waitlists" everybody. but anyways, </p>
<p>washu sux cuz its the first good school i heard that is no "need-blind". what kind of good school does not give need-blind admission and financial aide? a POOR school. so the h.ell with it. and btw to whoever made that comment</p>
<p>saying you "can't afford" princeton is a lame a.ss excuse cuz theres no way you CANT afford it. u fill out css/fasfsa and you afford it. if fasfsa says you can only pay $2000/year then princeton will find grants for u or w/e that will pay for it. if u wanna lie about it, think of a better excuse like i prefer a LAC like amherst or whilliams better since its much better quality education. </p>
<p>well u SUCK if you cant offer somebody admission jus cuz they cant pay which is y im beginning to think im waitlistted cuz my friend who got a 1350 with no special ec or such got accepted.. i editted his essay and it was okay... and HE"S NOT EVEN GOING! he chose nyu over it. i even saw his letter and was shocked. i truelly know this guy cuz hes in like FIVE of my classes and really he's not like superbly wonderful... just cuz he doesnt need financial aide. jus cuz his mom makes load of dough. that is reeeallly not fair or maybe it is but if washu continues to think htat is the way to go with admission then they can NEVEr be good like harvard or anywhere even CLOSE...</p>
<p>washu is ranked one of the lowest when it comes to financial aide helpfulness. anyways, im going to wellesley, paying like $500/year for topnotch education ha so good luck to u all... at the end of the day, is your education at washu REALLLY worth it? is it worth that tuition? HA</p>
<p>given your immaturity it's clear why WashU waitlisted you. you clearly care about being waitlisted, if you didn't you wouldnt be whining and posting to no end about it. grow up and perhaps we'll take you as a transfer.</p>