<p>Congratulations sharpielove, are you going to accept?</p>
<p>I got off the waitlist today! Won't accept but it's nice!</p>
<p>I also just found out I'm in off the waitlist, but I think I'm still going to Penn. It's nice though. I really liked wash u.</p>
<p>I just got off the waitlist today!!! I really really love Wash U...I put my deposit in for Johns Hopkins...which one should I choose. PS. I'm interested in engineering and art.</p>
<p>r u international cbgb?</p>
<p>Wow, Wash U must have really under admitted this year?</p>
<p>well this is utterly depressing, everyone getting phone calls...
I still can't give up that tiny bit of hope. I would drop everything for WashU</p>
<p>for those who received calls, have you sent in additional letters?</p>
<p>It was a big surprise for me. I sent in absolutely nothing. Didn't do a single thing--just checked the box online to stay on the waitlist, and forgot about it till today! But don't worry, I am turning down the offer. So one more waitlistee will get in.</p>
<p>If you want Engineering or Art (two COMPLETELY different things, btw), Wash U might be better. Especially if you want biomedical engineering, pre-med, or a combinatation engineering-business degree. Wash U has a great fine arts program, as well. I always recomend going for the overall student experience (student involvement, campus, friendliness, food, dorms, etc), and it's hard to find any school that beats out Wash U in that area. </p>
<p>Also, if you ever want to switch schools like from Engineering to Art or from Art to Engineering after you decide that you're really not interested in one of them, it is SO easy to do that at Wash U. Most schools have this really long process or they won't let you do it at all, but one of Wash U's great qualities is that you can change majors, switch schools, and take both engineering and art and business and philosophy classes without needing any sort of special permission or anything. It's exceedingly rare to find such flexibility.</p>
<p>did lots - no effect</p>
<p>My D did lots too.....still no word. Sad. But like I said, there are so many excellent schools out there. People get so hooked on particular names and such. They forget all about the school that accepted them right in front of their faces....which is often an excellent fit for them. The notion that you only fit at one school is ridiculous. Often enough, people get accepted and attend schools where they dont fit. (I know of two kids accepted at Ivy's this fall, and I am just going to wait and see what happens....I simply don't see the fit....they are too sheltered, too pampered, and their private high school is WAY over rated...a whole lot of fluff and puff on their transcripts....how did they get in? Heaven knows....). WashU is a superb school that offers a unique experience. It seems a good fit for us on many levels. But so far, no response. We applied for financial aid and I dont know if that has anything to do with it or not. Sometimes it does.</p>
<p>Another salient point that people fail to recognize. At many second tier and even some third tier schools, there are LOTS of kids who are accepted and attend with SAT scores well above 1400. The point being, that if one has a great SAT score it does not DICTATE that you must apply and must attend an "elite" or Ivy. In fact, some kids intentionally go to a second tier school, or prefer a state school for different reasons. One reason is they think they have a better chance at Phi Beta Kappa etc. One may be sports related. One may be its closer to home or friends are going there. All sorts of reasons. </p>
<p>I would be a liar if I said we arent somewhat disappointed we havent heard anything yet from WashU. Its getting into the 9th inning...bottom of the 9th at that. </p>
<p>But we are accepted at a fabulous school in the northeast that is really an extraordinary fit. We got a bunch of stuff about registration and resident life in the mail, in fact, yesterday that is really exciting. </p>
<p>(My D also was accepted off the wait list at another fabulous school closer to home, but that is not likely going to be accepted. We are very grateful and appreciative of the offer. But likely we will GRACIOUSLY decline it this weekend. The only other wait list she wanted was WashU.)</p>
<p>To everything there is a reason. To everything there is a season. Turn, turn, turn. And a time for every purpose under Heaven.</p>
<p>n.b. if we get into WashU, we will be sure to let you all know.</p>
<p>I got the call, and they sent me a package! Reply by June 1st! I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy!:):):)</p>
<p>friedokra: </p>
<p>Your attitude regarding the college admission process has been a breath of fresh air and you're absolutely right --- there are many wonderful colleges that would serve the same student equally well. So many factors go into the selection process, and it might well be that the request for FA is affecting the decision of which students will be called from the wait list. Also that she's a D and not a S, since that has started to play into admissions decisions. (WashU seems to strive for a 50-50 gender balance and I do think that can put female applicants at some disadvantage.) There's also the issue of intended major and whether those programs have been satisfied regarding freshman enrollment. Anyway, best of luck to your daughter. If she has your attitude, she's going to do great whether she goes to college.</p>
<p>I applied to A & S and it seems everyone called applied to the same school. My best friend applied to Olin and she is still waiting :(</p>
<p>But you just said in the other forum that the business school is closed. So wouldn't all Olin kids be waiting hopelessly? And I've asked this before but it kind of went unanswered; if we put A & S as our second choice on the pre-application form, will we still get considered for it if we're put on the WL?</p>
<p>Does seem that all have been A&S. Anyone heard from Eng School or know of anyone?</p>
<p>nope i applied for eng
but i dont get any phone calls......</p>
<p>Thanks for that. I just speak from the heart and hope to interject some sanity in this insane process.</p>
<p>Its so stressful for parents and kids alike. The job of an admissions officer is not exactly easy either. I empathize with their them and their daunting task.</p>
<p>I do not subscribe to the Evil Dr. No or Dr. Evil in the admissions process. Are mistakes made? Yep. All the time. People who look good on paper who get in and dont really deserve it. People who are not very nice who get in. People who have "help along the way" (highly paid consultants with connections etc.). On and on. Its not right, but its life.</p>
<p>And my D says, "hey, I may go there for graduate school....so chill out...its okay." </p>
<p>Some of the nicest, smartest, and most competent people I know went to schools off the radar screen of the elitists. Some of the biggest jerks I know went to elite schools. I am not saying they are jerks BECAUSE they went to the elite school, only that going to one doesnt make you a better person.</p>
<p>My D's favorite high school teacher, who is EXTRAORDINARILY COMPETENT and amazing....simply amazing....and who is on the national board of AP examiners and widely respected...went to a small West Virginia College. But he is brilliant, gifted, and hard working.....works TOO HARD if you ask me.</p>
<p>He wrote my D's letter of recommendation to WashU. They liked it so much they wrote him back to thank him. Commending his work.</p>
<p>I wish everyone here could get in and have their dreams come true. But the facts are that simply won't happen.</p>
<p>At my D's school where she is admitted (and increasingly looking like will attend...unless WashU calls) they also had a HUGE waitlist. Guess what? NOBODY got in. They have a very good retention rate I suppose.</p>
<p>And they closed their wait list today. Lots of sad faces over there.</p>
<p>But life goes on. These kids will be fine. I know someone who wanted desperately to go UNC-Chapel Hill last year. He got waitlisted and then finally rejected in June. He was devastated. But a year later he is somewhere else, very happy, thriving and never looked back.</p>
<p>And that is precisely what will happen for most of these kids who dont get in.</p>
<p>Its not what happens to you in life, its what you DO with what happens to you. Good or bad, you have a choice how to respond. You can learn and move up and along. Or you can spiral down into despair. The choice is yours.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>Friedokra, I want to join jazzymom in expressing my admiration for your wonderful attitude. Your daughter is a very lucky young woman to have such a "sane" mother to help guide her through this "insane" process. I wish you and your daughter the best.</p>
<p>FO: I wanted to just say that in my previous post I meant to write "wherever" your D goes to college and it came out "whether" which makes no sense. That's what happens when you don't proofread.</p>