<p>1430/2140 SAT, low 700s for SAT II’s (this, plus biology major, probably was the clincher). </p>
<p>Good thing I only applied to one Ivy, I guess? With a low enough acceptance rate to make my chances slim to none of being accepted.</p>
<p>But now I am worried I will get waitlisted everywhere else I applied OOS (Davidson, Rice, Northwestern.) And even if I do get accepted to those schools, I doubt they will give me any finaid at all. </p>
<p>I knew this was going to happen. Why did I even bother???</p>
<p>My high school is a selective Catholic high school thats about a 5 min drive from Wash U and they r notorious about accepting a bunch of kids from my school…</p>
<p>2 students with significantly lower gpas, easier class loads, lower test scores, and similar ECs were among the ones who got in…</p>
<p>admission process is so random that i have lost all faith in it over the past few months…</p>
<p>SO, DO YOU GUYS THINK THAT THOSE STUDENTS AT HYPSM DID GET INTO EVERY SCHOOL THEY APPLIED TO? </p>
<p>Why don’t we see Harvard students complaining about their rejection from schools like Cornell or Dartmouth? I think the answer is pretty clear. They are mature enough to realize that they are not perfect and different colleges have different criteria in determining who is qualified and who isn’t.</p>
<p>I agree. I’ve only seen one rejection posted up here. I’m joining the list as I was waitlisted too, but after seeing some of the stats here I definitely feel underqualified and wonder why I wasn’t rejected. So I’m definitely not upset about being waitlisted and will try to show the school how interested I am as it was my 1st/2nd choice. Still waiting on responses from Duke, Cornell, and Vassar (my first choice) though…</p>
<p>I have never in my life (including extensive experience on these boards…I’ve read years of past threads) ever ever ever seen someone accepted by Harvard and rejected by Cornell. It rarely happens. The fact that WashU regularly waitlists more highly qualified candidates who regularly get into HYPSM astounds me…</p>
The CC forum in no way represents the entire (or even half) of the applicant pool of a college/univeristy. So just because you never saw anyone on CC get accepted by Harvard and rejected by Cornell doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen </p>
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<li>People who are rejected are not likely to post their rejections. I mean think about it, if you got rejected from one of your top schools, how likely do you think it is that you would come back and post the schools you got rejected from? I mean, the person already feels bad because they were rejected, and posting it is kinda like adding insult to injury.</li>
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<p>“I have never in my life (including extensive experience on these boards…I’ve read years of past threads) ever ever ever seen someone accepted by Harvard and rejected by Cornell.”</p>
<p>act: 35
sat 1470/1600, 2200/2400
3.9 unweighted
3/35 at small Catholic School
sat II us history: 780, lit: 740
AP lit 5, us history 4
several hundred hours of community service (mission trips to central america, MDA camp)
Pianist (interlochen 06) and piano teacher, roll of Jesus in Godspell (my most fun ec), Key club, student council rep
2 years varsity track (captain)
2 years varsity baseballl
2 years varsity cross country
3 years JV basketball</p>
<p>I was fully expecting to get into WUSTL. I guess that just shows my excessive hubris. I really was not interested, it’s just that this letter has come at a most inopportune time; I am now highly doubtful that I have any chance at the Ivies and Stanford. This thread has cheered me up a bit - but honestly I’m going to need more than anecdotal evidence to prove to myself that WUSTL really has such a screwed up admissions process. I guess I’ll just have to wait til April 1. This letter has f***** my day, and probably the rest of my month. It’s kind of funny to imagine them doing this just to mess with highly qualified students. I guess I can just hope this is the case hahaah…</p>
<p>Valedictorian at my school (and my best friend) got waitlisted too. whatever</p>
<p>WashU really isn’t the only one with complicated decisions, trust me. Like six people at my school were accepted ED to Stanford, and the valedictorian was rejected. Our class is 1368 for just senior year.</p>
<p>Actually, what hookem (and others) is not taking into account is that WashU has a pretty fair guess based on past experience who is most likely to accept their offer and who is actually going Ivy or whatever. And since percent admitted is a criteria USNWR uses for selectivity and therefore ranking, they try to keep this number down.</p>
<p>Don’t believe me? I have been saying it for months on other threads, but was pleased to see validation last week. There was a good article in the March 8 New York Times (front page) about how bizarre this year is for admissions officers, because of the economy and other factors, but mostly the economy. It is making them throw out all their previous statistical models and make decisions in different ways than before. It specifically mentioned reading essays more carefully, trying to discern how likely that person would be to accept their offer, etc. But is also specifically mentioned waitlisting people they are pretty sure are not really likely to go to their school. Look it up, might be insightful for all.</p>
<p>BTW, my D was accepted at WUSTL and loved it there when she visited, but with no merit aid and no chance we will qualify for need based, it makes no sense. She got the DHS (full tuition for four years) at Tulane and while Wash U is obviously the better school, it isn’t $150,000 better, at least not to her since she will go on for a PhD most likely anyway.</p>
<p>Personally, I felt pretty bummed out about being WLed. I was accepted to Swarthmore and NYU the day before and had received likely letters from Dartmouth and Wellesley earlier. :o I’m incredibly satisfied with my choices as they stand!!! …But WUSTL was one of the first few colleges I learned about and the first college I visited (besides the Ivies). So after receiving another likely from Cornell, I’m left confused. :(</p>
<p>But to those still looking forward to HYPS: Don’t lose hope!</p>
<p>I wrote earlier, but I do not know where my message went!!!
Once you have certain qualifications (grades, test scores, EC…) the process is extremely random and you cannot judge yourself by the decisions of a few overworked admission officers. There is no overqualified applicants (except for a few exceptions). There is just subjective criteria. Do not lose heart. One waitlisted decision does not mean anything as to the rest of your chances. I got rejected EA from my first choice school, Stanford ( I was hoping to get at least waitlisted as I took classes there in the summer and got A+). I got discouraged and applied to 14 schools! Then in January I got a likely to Columbia, got accepted at Caltech (my second choice), but rejected from MIT! I now got waitlisted from Washington State U. in St Louis, which I considered a safety school, as I did not know much about it, outside all the advertisement they sent me (this is why I applied). I now cannot wait to hear from HYP, Cornell, Brown! I got over my disappointment over Stanford, and I kind of feel it is kind of funny in a way. It is so random!!! That is why I think it is a good thing that most of you applied to a bunch of schools, as nothing is guaranteed.
By the way I am kind of curious. I never got an email invitation for an interview. Did most of you get one? Another note: I need full financial aid, but I do not believe it had anything to do with me being waitlisted. If a school really wants you, I do believe that they work things out. I did not have much interest in the school. Did they pick up on that? I do not know; I still provided a polished application. So who knows?</p>
<p>@iissmrt: That was what happened to me too. I got into Swarthmore but later found out that I was waitlisted by Washington University, and later I got rejected. But I really never wanted to go there anyway. I added it to my list at the last moment.</p>