<p>You weren't good enough. Build a bridge and get over it.</p>
<p>Colleges are entitled to do anything they want. Legacies, Affirmative Action, its their choice.</p>
<p>To blame your non-acceptance on their "covert" admissions policies is extremely offensive to me and my other fellow acceptees. Instead of looking at your one dimensional selves, you immediately point fingers, believing you are an over-qualified candidate to one of the more prestigious schools.</p>
<p>It works out perfectly though, I wanted to go to this school to escape the over-zealous anal-retentive people that only care about numbers and everything else. Thank god you guys won't be joining us for '09.</p>
<p>I've never said I was an "over-qualified" candidate; I'm just saying that there is definitely evidence of this, as I have discussed with you before. In fact, I know I don't fall into the high-number/high-powered/national awards type of candidate; therefore, I am not "over-qualified"; I thought I was a match and definitely demonstrated my interest in attending the school, and I still do, because as many of others did on this forum, I have sent a letter and an additional follow-up essay. </p>
<p>As you said, it all comes down to this: Colleges can do anything they wish to do, which makes this process scary and hard to navigate for all of us.</p>
<p>didn't read the entire thread [only the first couple of posts], but i hope i can help. the university does keep stats on how many times you contact the school, etc. they are really interested in how interested you, the applicant, are. i was at a college fair and a lady asked me to fill out a mailing card for wash u. i said i already filled one out. but she insisted b/c the univ. [she said] keeps count on how many times you make contact. this also counts as if an admission officer visits your school and if you go to their presentation. i noticed they always make it a point to keep track of who comes to the presentations and visits campus (appt. needed to visit). BUT remember... this won't get u in alone... not a gaurantee</p>
<p>i just visited campus. i was totally IMPRESSED!!!!! :) after visiting, i truly don't think that wash u should be a back-up for harvard, etc. during the app process, i didn't consider wash u as a 1st choice, but now i'm beginning to reconsider :) it is a truly excellent school (however, sugar-coated, of course)</p>
<p>Key word is you 'thought' you were a match for the school. Maybe you weren't what the school was looking for. </p>
<p>Everyone seems to be pointing fingers saying Wash U has the Tufts syndrome. Overqualified students are 'waitlisted' while the underqualified students that are sure to attend are accepted. Funny thing is, they've been doing this for a while now and yet they're still going on strong, with a top 10 endowment / + high giving rate from Alumni. Even with these supposed 'underqualified' kids, Wash U is still a top 10 school as rated by USNEWS. (though I don't agree with the rankings wholeheartedly)</p>
<p>They must be doing something right, no?</p>
<p>Everyone should quit with their bitter remarks.</p>
<p>although I don't agree with the policy, at all, I think the people who were waitlisted with high stats shouldn't care so much, since most of you weren't going to attend Wash U. if you were accepted to any of your many choices that came before Wash U. on the college list, since many of you seem to have regarded it as a safety</p>
<p>also must consider that the school concentrates on raising their yield [% of accepted applicants who matriculate]. in accepting applicants they consider if the applicant will even attend. if the applicant also applied to all the ivys [wash u is an obvious back-up], chances are that the applicant won't choose wash u. that hurts the yield. so this is where interest helps. except... try for real interest... not fake interest :)</p>
<p>and never hurts to ask why you were rejected [in case there is an appeal]. when i get decisions from my colleges, i'm going to ask why i'm rejected [if i am b/c hope not to do so].</p>
<p>Whatever, a match school that people thought they'd get into, I think you know what I meant. I was simply saying that the applicants did not regard Wash. U. as highly as Wash. U. seems to regard itself.</p>
<p>WUSTL was my top choice school. 1490 SAT (not great), National Merit Finalist etc. I got waitlisted. Frustration to the extreme. They didnt have anyone in my area that i could interview with so I guess I wasn't able to tell them sufficiently enough that they were my first choice. Any suggestions on how I can let WUSTL know they are my first choice?
I am even more frustrated because now I have to consider all my other schools very seriously with this vague hope in the back of my mind that I might still get in at WUSTL...sigh.</p>
<p>Everyone posting on this forum is completely irrational, excluding faenix and a few others. It is laughable that you think high SAT scores are your golden ticket into competitive universities and colleges. Why do you think they created the NEW SAT? Because the old one was doing its job? Obviously not. I among many of you was waitlisted, however my SAT's are far lower: I am kickin' it in the 1200 range. Luckily, I have enough self confidence to realize SAT's are not an accurate representation of my smarts. Doing very well on AP exams that include, oh wait what? oh, writing I know that I am just as good a canidate as anyone else. Furthermore, The reason I was wait listed is because I have a personality, know how to get out once in a while and have EC's that will put you to shame. </p>
<p>Now, remove the stick from your rear and go run around naked.</p>
<p>just b/c some1 has a high SAT score and complains about being waitlisted, doesn't mean they don't have a personality, or 'don't get out once in a while"... I, for one, am frustrated with the whole WL epidemic... and have complained about it.. it doesn't seem fair, yet I understand their 'admissions tactics' and I suppose they have every right to ensure the greatest yield and lowest admit rate possible... college admissions is a game, there's nothing more to it..,</p>
<p>just before you say comments like that, think about what you're saying</p>
<p>Oh buddy (smartaleck), I thought long and hard about what I was saying. While I do agree that people with high scores have personalities (well some of them) my whole point was that people need to lighten up and look past the numbers. </p>
<p>And I am fully aware college admissions is a game, but I guess we know who is having more fun. </p>
<p>If you regarded Wash U as a safety valve against Ivy/Duke/Stanford/Whatever and you were waitlisted, you got what was coming to you. KU thought they'd spank Bucknell and they went in there arrogant and they lost, and I wouldn't have wanted to be in Lawrence on Friday night. It's the same thing. </p>
<p>And I was waitlisted too. And I probably deserved it.</p>
<p>What really bugs me is that I was actually considering washu and went to an interview and wrote a why washu essay... I cant help but think they took one look at my app and said.... he's probably going to end up elsewhere</p>
<p>I know the above sounds arrogant and conceited which I try not to be but still, I think that they shouldnt have disqualified me because of that</p>