<p>Does the WashU undergraduate system function like UPenn's where you apply to one school and if you're not admitted, you're denied admittance to the school as a whole?</p>
<p>I think you can list more than one school (in order of preference), so if you are not admitted to your first one, you'll be considered for the next in line.</p>
<p>Well, like nngmm said, I'm pretty sure you can list your preferences of schools, but once your in to the university its very easy to switch schools. So, it's not like UPenn in that sense.</p>
<p>We were told by administrators during one of those weekends for potential applicants that art school students were judged on academic achievements, not just talent, and must be acceptable by other schools - not just art. In other words, art standards were not lower.</p>
<p>This leads me to believe, though I'm sure exceptions are made, that if someone isn't accepted into their primary choice school it is a matter of Wash U. wanting to balance class sizes in each school rather than whether they qualify for one program... but not another.</p>
<p>I think the U Penn - "you must apply to Wharton because we're going to make it tough for you to transfer in, and by the way your chances are worse getting into the school if you do" - way of doing things is wrong. Students don't know what they want freshman year, at least not all of them.</p>
<p>It's already so much more difficult for our kids. It has been a career of sorts for them to generate high school stats were good enough for a good school. Not that anything they did was bad - getting straight A's will benefit them in life, but it's so different from when I was in school.</p>
<p>Yea, you just have preferences.</p>