<p>i got into yale, harvard and mit and i got waitlisted at mit. how do they waitlist their candidates???</p>
<p>hmmmm how did you already get accepted into all those colleges since yale is single choice early action</p>
<p>yea sorry washu hbaha my bad</p>
<p>o i got a likley letter from yale and i did ea for harvard</p>
<p>ah ok</p>
<p>congrats on the likely program :)</p>
<p>If WashU waitlists "overqualified" applicants for the purpose of yield protection, then I would say it's doing a good job. WashU could probably sense you had a good chance of getting into HYPSM, and I guess they were right. You are most likely going to choose Harvard, Yale, or MIT over WashU, so the waitlist has done it's job I guess.</p>
<p>But nonetheless, congratulations on your acceptances!!</p>
<p>congrats</p>
<p>wash u is just different</p>
<p>it also happens to suck compared to YALE which is where i would definitely go in your position :)</p>
<p>yeah i got waitlisted at wash u also after getting into MIT the same day.
I know for a fact that two RSI 06ers..(including me) were waitlisted at wash u.
someone else this year who got into MIT also was waitlisted at wash u.
i talked to some people already in college who were accepted into schools like MIT/Stanford etc.... they were waitlisted at wash u too.</p>
<p>I do believe that wash u does like to waitlist candidates they believe would not attend even if they were offered admission. I think it's a bit of a self-defeating action...because if they alienate the "over-qualified" candidates...they may be alienating future generations as well. How well they ever fulfill their supposed ambition of becoming the "harvard" of the midwest?</p>
<p>Susah--all the WashU students (like me) laugh our butts off when people call us the Harvard of the Midwest. That's not us at all. We're WashU, which is very different from Harvard. Who'd want to be Harvard anyways? :)</p>
<p>^^Who'd want to be Harvard anyways? ^^</p>
<p>apparently lots of kids at Wash U... lol</p>
<p>its more like the "school for harvard/stanford/yale/princteon rejects of the midwest"</p>
<p>Eh, or for those of us that, by choice, applied to none of those (I know, it can be shocking that not all high school seniors would kill for a spot at an Ivy).</p>
<p>i didn't apply to any ivies, and i'm totally fine with that.</p>
<p>Except for those merit scholarship finalists, anybody qualifies for top 5 colleges and cannot demonstrate to washu's satisfaction that he/she loves washu will be waitlisted, it appears.</p>
<p>My D, who is a NMF and has all of the other "qualifications", did not apply to any of the ivies by choice. She would not have applied to Wash U either if she thought of it as the "Harvard of the Midwest." She applied to Wash U because of its unique identity. Like many others, she wasn't interested in the ivies.</p>
<p>Ditto MomtoTwo - my D has been accepted to 6 of 8 schools so far (will hear from the remaining two in a couple of weeks). She EMPHATICALLY DID NOT want to apply to any IVIES. In fact, we went out east a couple of times and she had no interest in visiting HYP. We visited Brown a couple of years ago and she didn't like it. I will repeat what someone wrote on another thread:
"Remember, the ivies are a football conference" - I think that's how he/she put it. I'd rather see her at WU than HYP if she has to deal with arrogance from students such as some of those who have responded to this post.</p>
<p>Right... like WashU students don't display arrogance at all.</p>
<p>carpediem825: I'm just frustrated with all the posts on the WU site from kids who are too cocky and arrogant that they are beyond belief that WU waitlisted them when HYPSM accepted them: Posts such as "Accepted at Stanford, waitlisted at WU", "Overqualified students rejected, and on and on and on. My D hasn't decided if she'll enroll. But it makes me mad to read these posts...like just because my D got in to WU, she's not an IVY league contender.</p>
<p>Look at the ratio difference between male and female students at MIT and at Washu and ponder: is it possible that a certain number of women were accepted at MIT rather than being waitlisted because MIT wants to create more gender balance, but conversely, a certain number of women were waitlisted at Washu at least partially because Washu for years has strived for a close to 50-50 gender balance in admissions. Just a thought.</p>
<p>mominchicago, I agree with you. I sure hope your daughter doesn't feel any less thrilled to be accepted because of all this (bet she doesn't!). Congratulations to her. Even if she decides to go elsewhere, she knows she had the opportunity.</p>
<p>mominchicago- I perfectly understand that. Getting into WashU is an accomplishment and something to be proud of... and as a parent of an accepted student, you have every right to be frustrated at disappointed individuals diminishing the value of other people's hard work.</p>
<p>I apologize if I sounded sarcastic in my last comment.</p>