<p>Well, so far the individual you know has a more sensible treatment than others I've seen. </p>
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she told me that they asked her if she was interested to accept the offer and her answer was she might depending on the financial aid, and they send her the package with a deadline and they also said to her to tell them in 48 hours as a courtesy to the others still waiting to call them if she won't be enrolling there.
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<p>All these seem to be different from what others have said/implied. So I don't know if I should take her experience as anything representative. You seem to view whatever WashU does, no matter how different it is from others, in the most positive way you possibly can while some people like me have reservation. I guess we'd agree that we disagree.</p>
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I wonder if the "decide in 24 hours" call counts as a true offer of admission (in terms of reporting the acceptance rate), and maybe the offer isn't "formal" until you ask for/receive the acceptance package
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<p>I think one good indicator would be if the online status of the kids who decline the offer changes from "waitlisted" to "accepted".</p>
<p>Cressmom, it's easy to call the decision easy when you haven't been in the situation. It's truly not an easy thing to have deposited to another school and then be suddenly and unexpectedly admitted to another school. Please don't make such generalizations if you don't know what you're talking about.</p>
<p>Sam Lee, my online status still says waitlisted. =/</p>
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<p>Thanks, AM17. </p>
<p>SarahDad and I have suspected that might be the case and looks like we are right. I wondered about the same thing on another thread and Cressmom would quickly claimed that's not the case. Let's see what kind of excuses she comes up with this time. ;)</p>
<p>At least 16 people on <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=340184%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=340184</a> said they got the call--pretty significant considering the relatively small size of the class and that most people don't come to CC. Looks like they really under-admit this year and there can easily be over 200 people getting the call. But that's not an issue as far as their precious selectivity stats goes if only the ones that accept the offers are counted as "admitted" (~100% yield). They can easily do that since there's no paper trail.</p>
<p>AM17,</p>
<p>Maybe you can ask them why your status hasn't been changed if you are bored. :)</p>
<p>Sam Lee, My name must be Wash U ;), you don't stop follow me and attacking me everywhere I write! What is wrong with you? If you don't like Wash U, why you want to send your kid there?</p>
<p>Going back for the last time to what I said.</p>
<p>1-I said that not only Wash U gives a small reply time unless you said you might be going. Sorry I didn't check what the forum says about that; I only made statistics with my HS's kids numbers and some of my friend's children (I'm from the old school, I've never based my opinions in anonymous nicknames, for that reason I only mention real people I know)
2-I was clear that bothers me where a kid who is sure he is going to enroll somewhere else, don't say it keeping others from being called (and I'm not biased in this because my kids are already in college, I just care for others' kids)
3-I can't believe you miss my thread about housing!:( Dont read it, or you will have to apologize.;)</p>
<p>And I repeat, even if you feel your kids are immature or not really for school, you have to let them grow up, they have to learn to make quick decisions since the very first minute in campus, they are not longer with mommy and daddy and none of them will be there by the time they need to register for classes, when they need to find future roommates making the housing selection, and when they need to talk with a professor before his/her grade is final. Mommy and daddy will not longer be there when they have an emergency and they have to be rushed to the hospital, or simply when they don't get along with roommates or they missed a deadline. They have to learn to make right choices by themselves, and they have to learn to speak up when it is necessary (they should start now by saying they need more time to make a decision instead of complaining here, it really works for those who did it!).
Wash U is a fine school, getting better year after year, I'm sure location plays against it, but it's not its fault. It is very easy to take classes from other school, even have two majors in two different schools and minor in a third school. Professors are always available; they have good tutoring teams in the case are needed. Campus is gorgeous, a little messy and awkward because of the main constructions. Dorms are very nice, most of them brand new with easy access everywhere. Nobody complains about food, kids miss it when at home. Transportation to all the shopping, entertainment, restaurants and museums is free for students. The career center is very good, most kids find jobs instantly and there are available many paid internships. There is diversity in campus of every type, many internationals (most from Asia especially from China like you). The downside is that for many of us it is far away from home and it makes transportation more expensive and visits less frequent. Hotels are expensive during graduation and parents weekends. You are not longer in control of grades; they don't release them to the parents since they believe a student is an adult. Since last year got overcrowded, housing started to be a big issue if you want to change residential colleges, transferring from other schools is not longer easy, and every year is getting harder to get in.</p>
<p>I think you both need to give it a rest. Goodness gracious! Good golly Miss Molly! Step back and take a breath and let it go. Its just a college. A good college, but one of more than 3,000 colleges in the United States.</p>
<p>Actually Creessmom is right, I got the call, they asked if I could give them an answer and I told them I need time, so the package arrived today! Reply by June 1st! Happy, happy, happy!:):):):):):):) Did I say happy?;)</p>
<p>A friend of mine was very upset because you bullied him in the Yale forum. Are you really a parent? You are in every forum, like an expert. Please, if you have interest in Wash U, refrain to comment things you don't know.</p>
<p>So, I guess you are the person that Cressmom knows? Like I said, you may have more "normal" treatment but according to the other posts on CC, that's not how WashU handled their cases. There's no reason I should take yours as representative while igorning most of the others'.</p>
<p>The only person I have "bullied" on Yale forum is posterX, who's known for making ridiculous claims--so ridiculous that even one of the current Yale students questioned if he's actually "anti-Yale troll" that tried to give people negative impression about Yale by posing as Yale student/alum and putting outrageous claims.</p>
<p>I think WashU is a GREAT school and treats their students VERY WELL. Whatever goes on in the adcom "for the most part" has no effect on student life which seems to be really good. But that doesn't mean the adcom is immune to criticism. I said "for the most part" because we don't know if and how much the need-aware admission supports those merit scholarships and nice dorms/food that Cressmom mentioned (e.g, for every poor student you decline because of his/her fiancial background, a good chunk of money is available to do others). Many schools just don't have that kind of cash to build palace-like dorms or pay premiums for the food. We dont' know how WashU can do all these and if it's tied to their financial aid practice. There's virtually no info available to the public. Anyway, I think they have every reason to feel secure about themselves and should have their data/finances more transparent.</p>
<p>I don't know if this means anything, but I was accepted off the waitlist and I did not expect any financial aid. (All of my other schools said I did not qualify for aid.) So maybe that factored into my acceptance from the waitlist.</p>
<p>Sam Lee, are you bullying me now? We already have discussions like this in other forum (my friend is not the one you mentioned).
All the guys and girls that received the package from A&S have the same deadline, I don’t know about other schools, maybe you do, you seem to know everything about every college, every professor, every career and every high school. Are you a professional forum writer?
b4nnd20, I got some fin aid, less than other colleges.</p>
<p>Trapper, did you get financial aid? I thought that that wasn't available. My D's friend got nothing, and she has applied for it. She can't register for the A&S weekends either. Other kid was accepted for the January Program, but he isn't going to enroll. From this HS, nine applied, one was accepted ED and two more from the wait list (five were rejected, one still waiting for a call).</p>
<p>Trapper,
Huh? We had discussions in another forum? You just joined CC and have had 8 posts!<br>
If that's not posterX, then either you or "your friend" is lying. I almost never go to Yale board, let alone "bully" someone there. </p>
<p>I agree with Cressmom on this: it's anonymous and people can just make things up.</p>
<p>Sam Lee, I just started to write here, it doesn’t mean I didn’t follow the forum. You were a Wash U student not too long ago, maybe 2001? You had to transfer, you went to Northwestern and you graduated from there. Am I wrong? I know you from many forums; I’m not the one who is lying here. Many people told you to stop bullying others.
By the way, why are you so interested in Wash U?</p>
<p>Cressmom, it's absolutely ridiculous that you claim college decisions should be made quickly for "practice" in case one needs to make them in college or the real world. Choosing a four-year college is a huge decision that deserves careful consideration and adequate time.</p>
<p>I guess your are right,AM17 (I'm 17 too!) for that reason we have planned for a long time where to apply, and since the decision came out (I got mine March 9th), we had time to change our mind many times; by now, we already know if we are going to accept the wait list call or not. I don’t know you, but I sent my deposit to one school and now that I’m in…I’m enrolling (I already told the other college my decision).</p>
<p>Sorry Sam Lee, everything I said you wrote it last month in the forum, just check your old posts ;) We both came from Hong Kong and our families live in California, would you deny that too?</p>