<p>S was waitlisted</p>
<p>ACT-34, SAT 1-1460
Rank 4/444 GPA W: 4.5, UW 3.982
Very special and exceptional letter of rec., everything else fine
Has been accepted to: UMich Honors, UMiami (with 3/4 tuition scholarship), U of Kansas
Still waiting on: Cornell, UPenn, Brown, Duke, Stanford, JHU</p>
<p>vtoddler, i think you also got a generic waitlist letter, but for those with some sort of legacy status.</p>
<p>my brother currently attends WashU and my acceptance letter says something like "we know you already have special ties to the university, but we believe you, as an individual, have much to offer" (something to that extent, i don't feel like opening it again). obviously, not everyone got this letter, but it's like the same thing as the normal one with that one sentence changed. to everyone-> i am sorry :( good luck getting in elsewhere and even at wash u if you still want it</p>
<p>"East St. Louis? Is there any other St Louis?"
-Homer Simpson</p>
<p>wait listzored
1560
800/800/770</p>
<p>this is crazy!!! WUSTL waitlists so many people it's ridiculous...I think it's a bad policy to string people along like that.</p>
<p>If their intent was to waitlist everyone who they thought wouldn't intend..they majorly screwed up in regards to my school. wustl was my 2nd choice, I was waitlisted. They accept someone who already got into Stanford SCEA so pretty obvious he won't attend wustl over Stanford. </p>
<p>This is just ridiculous.</p>
<p>Just looking through people's reponses today, it's pretty insane how the ratio for admitted to waitlisted is around 1:10 .</p>
<p>Wash U is an uber competitive school.
It would be prudent to sacrifice yield for a chance at snagging Ivy types - yields don't improve rankings, people do.</p>
<p>But I was waitlisted, so I'm not all too objective.</p>
<p>nobu you are correct.... washu wasnt my top choice either but to waitlist me is just bs.</p>
<p>with rejecting these applicants they have shown that they will never be ivy caliber</p>
<p>rather, they are starting to experience tufts syndrome</p>
<p>too bad for them that they wont get me!!!</p>
<p>Well, I don't know about that. In my opinion, Wash U is very near Ivy caliber and will continue to ascend - but ascension can't occur if yield is prioritized. I never picked my colleges on the basis of selectivity or yield rates. I was more concerned about the type of students populating the campuses, curriculum quality, and teaching quality.</p>
<p>Chicago has a really high admit rate (thanks to Uncommon app) and probably has a low yield rate. For me, Chicago competes against MIT, Dartmouth, etc, etc - I haven't heard back from Chicago yet, but I would definitely consider them over MIT.</p>
<p>good luck with that</p>
<p>but remember, ivys are not insecure enough to reject top applicants, to the contrary, they offer top applicants incentives</p>
<p>vtoddler,
I had that exact phrase in my letter.</p>
<p>Dotty, </p>
<p>Are you a legacy like me?</p>
<p>Curtisny--Tried to send you an e-mail but it wasn't allowed.</p>
<p>The short answer is that Wash U had strength and depth in the programs she's interested in (non-European foreign languages) and she really enjoyed her campus visit--liked it the best of everywhere she looked. Both the faculty she talked to and the students in the class she attended were very friendly and helpful--really went out of their way for her. She could definitely "see herself there." Plus everyone she knows who attends have told her they're very happy there.</p>
<p>I was accepted and a legacy and I got the same you have special ties but we thing YOU would do well.
Honestly I don't think I will attend and if I get into any of my top 3 I will immeadiately tell them I am not going to attend and get in one of you Waitlisted kids.
I am also not a Minority kid or a scholarship kid which someone was saying were the only people that heard that they had gotten in. My GC called it a safety given my school's history with getting Wash U kids in, I think most of the kids from my school get accepted. It is likely my school that got me in and not my legacy status.</p>
<p>nobu, Chicago and WashU have the same yield rate of 33%. but i agree chicago is a good school. as long as i get in there ill be happy, for now....not sure if ill be happy after i get there and realize that they give out too much work to do. but Chicago's always been above WashU on my list. time to move on i guess.
im feeling so insecure....im really regretting saying "no thanks" to a friends mom when she asked if i wanted her to put in a good word for me...lets just say she has relatives in the chicago admissions office...whatever, if i get in, at least ill know it was because of me.</p>
<p>washU's yield was like 25% last time I checked...</p>
<p>vtoodler,
I am not a legacy, but a sibling of mine went to wash u.</p>
<p>For those waitlisted- don't give up hope! </p>
<p>I know a kid who had a 1550 SAT but mediocre rank last year. He got into all his schools except WashU which waitlisted him. Eventually WashU took him off the waitlist, but he decided to attend Tufts instead.</p>
<p>A kid I know was accepted to Harvard and not to Wash U two years ago.</p>
<p>Waitlisted. </p>
<p>So many people apply to wustl who dont intend on attending. I really wanna go there.</p>
<p>4.0 UW
rank 1
not so impressive 27 on act
dedicated EC's
excellent recommendations
i think my essay was great, but that is qualitative</p>