To all WashU applicants

<p>Hey. I am currently a freshman at WashU and I just wanted to take this chance to congratulate everyone who was accepted. For all those rejected/waitlisted, I'm sure with your amazing stats you'll end up at an incredible college. However, for everyone saying that WashU intentionally denies applicants with top scores, that is not fully true. I know people with 1600's that turned down Harverd to go to WashU. I also know people who had 1300's that go to WashU. Everyone who applies to WashU has incredible scores, gpas and achievments, but when a school gets 20,000 applications for 4,000 spots, there are going to be a lot of people with very good scores who are rejected/waitlisted. Interest is only one way WashU distinghuishes who they should admit, but it definately isn't the deciding factor. Sorry for the rant, but I just wanted to make sure everyone knows that WashU isn't an evil moster crushing those with the top scores to admit those with lower ones.</p>

<p>I'm sur WashU doesn't do that but hey I hope you can understand us "waitlisted" people's mentality right now. SOmetimes it's good to point fingers, if it doesn't get outta hand. It's part of the healing process.</p>

<p>Even though I technically got in (January Program), I was deferred from ED and so I know how waitlisted people feel. I think what got me in was my insane show of interest. Send them a letter saying you still want to go there (and if it is) that it's your #1. Also tell them about anythign that has happened since January that makes you stand out a little bit more. Call your rep to find out where you are on the list and what you can do.</p>

<p>I know right now you must be feeling terrible, that's how I felt in December, but the sooner you take action to get in, if that's what you really want - I promise you will feel much better.</p>

<p>Good Luck!</p>

<p>Why u try to deny such obvious fact.</p>

<p>i don't "feel terrible"...hell, I didn't even want to go there. I just feel insulted, thats all...</p>

<p>I don't feel terrible either. Insulted or offended would be the better words.</p>

<p>I recently graduated from WashU, and loved it. However, Buffy you are mistaken. Its a tough school to get into, but it is notorious for Waitlisting applicants who are "overqualified" (and this is tough to determine, but the way our school has risen in the US News Rankings has been to play the numbers i.e. SAT Score and GPA). In any case, I am sure that some of the waitlists have nothing to do with the admissions office thinking you would not attend, but from past experience I know that some waitlists are because the admissions office doesn't beleive you will attend WashU. I think the Waitlisting "overqualified" applicants applies especially to the east coast, where WashU is still not that visible.</p>

<p>And yes, there are people that choose Harvard over WashU, just like any other top school. However this does not really apply all that much to the Waitlist issue since there are just not that many people that choose our school over that school in Cambridge.</p>

<p>Best of luck to all of you, and from someone who has been there before, trust me there is 4 great years ahead whereever you end up!</p>

<p>i got a 1370 !!! I got waitlisted !!!!! not everyone with high scores got waitlisted dammit !!!</p>

<p>ok i am done now :)</p>

<p>I'm seriously seeing that layer cake trend someone mentioned earlier.</p>

<p>You've got high scores getting waitlisted AND accepted, slightly lower but still great scores getting in, then lower scores getting waitlisted, then lower scores getting in, etc.</p>

<p>Yes! journogirl05, just like any other school, they accept some, waitlist some and reject some!!!!! I think you need to read your teacher recs, since you are SO perfect everywhere else, something tells me there might be a flaw somewhere about you.....hint hint......ATTITUDE!!!!! I am so happy so of you waitlisted CCers wont be with me at WashU next year!</p>

<p>I didn't get the picture that you were accepted Bailey. Now it sort of makes sense.
If you don't mind me asking, where are you from?</p>

<p>I just pointed out that I noticed a trend that other people were also mentioning. That's it. I never said I was perfect. </p>

<p>As for attitude..."I am so happy so of you waitlisted CCers wont be with me at WashU next year!"? Pot, kettle?</p>

<p>As for attitude..."I am so happy so of you waitlisted CCers wont be with me at WashU next year!"? </p>

<p>--That's not very nice. baily-- be nice to these waitlisted people. being waitlisted is bad enough-- don't have to splash them with more cold water. :)</p>

<p>one thing i dont get: they waitlisted so many people , how they ever going to decide quickly who to take off the waitlist??</p>

<p>i love the way wash u did this. they seemed to have weeded out all the people who don't care about it and are just using it as a saftey, and, in their place, accepted kids they knew love the school and are extremely happy to get in and go (aka me). </p>

<p>you're all talking about scores, but i think a major part of it (at wash u) was showing interest and having a good attitude about learning. I had a great interview at wash u and had a fun essay with supplementary little things. i sent them letters and talked to people. i think this may have outweighed my 1400 sats or my less than 4.0 grade point average.
either way, Wash U is getting some amazing students who really want to go there, and that's how it should be.</p>

<p>"either way, Wash U is getting some amazing students who really want to go there, and that's how it should be." -- ditto.</p>

<p>"one thing i dont get: they waitlisted so many people , how they ever going to decide quickly who to take off the waitlist??"
-- I suppose if you showed enough interest after being waitlisted, you will get off it. :P</p>

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<p>IT sickens me that you say this. Wash U was my top pic, not because of prestige but because I liked how they allowed engineering and liberal arts to be combined and encouraged the undergraduate experience to be flexible and enriching. To say that you love or even UNDERSTAND how Washington University selected their students is wrong of you. You are in no position whatsover to make such judgements. I cared a lot thanks you. I had a great interview, in fact it lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes. I talked with many teachers there as well. So please, cut the crap.</p>

<p>whoa, chill out. I'm not the enemy.</p>

<p>I was simply commenting to the kids who are saying they are simply "offended" by the fact that they were waitlisted at wash u and that they really didn't want to go there anyway. These kids seem to have been "weeded out," and for that, I'm happy. I'm just a little sick of these kids who don't really care about wash u and were waitlisted trying to downplay the achievement the kids who were accepted have earned. </p>

<p>as for you, i'm very sorry you were waitlisted. that sucks and i'm sorry. again, i was simply commenting on the fact that wash u seems to have made a somewhat good move in having an effort to get out a lot of the kids who use it as a fall back. i was not making a broad statement, saying that all kids who were waitlisted didn't care about it. How could i possibly make such a generalization? No one scenario could possibly fit with every single student they waitlisted.</p>

<p>again, i'm sorry. I'm sure you'll get in somewhere equally as awesome and flexable. </p>

<p>if it makes you feel any better, i wasn't even accepted normally. i was accepted into the "January Program."</p>

<p>Good luck</p>

<p>also, what about the kids with stats equal to or better than many of the "overqualified" waitlisted students who were accepted and are using WUSTL as a safety? What do the "overqualified" kids say to them? Are you really as "overqualified" as you think you are?</p>

<p>what?</p>

<p>again, i'm simply commenting to the kids who used it as a saftey, and, when waitlisted, are simply "offended" that they didn't get in. </p>

<p>that's all</p>