<p>Hi everyone! I thought I'd create this thread so everyone wait listed at WUSTL 2017 could share information about the wait list. If you have any news about what's happening with the wait list please post it! Thanks</p>
<p>Well, other than that first wave of admissions (3 or 4 from CC got in and I’m sure there are a few others not on here too), no news.</p>
<p>They are playing games with their numbers this year. Wondering what I did wrong (valedictorian, EMT, 806 volunteer hours, 2 jobs, straight A’s in Honors and 10 APs, fantastic recommendations…)?</p>
<p>Who knows? Maybe they didn’t like your essay? Maybe your ECs were “too generic”? Maybe they had an extremely large number of highly qualified applicants from your area? It’s hard to point to one thing and say “this here is why you were not accepted.”</p>
<p>That yield protection is complete BS, they are not an Ivy. Oh well.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what you’re upset about - people get waitlisted, it happens. Even highly qualified applicants such as yourself. A college can’t accept everyone it wants to, it’s just not plausible. Also, I’m not sure what you’re implying with the “yield protection” comment. According to dts1dlm, a user who has access to washu’s waitlist numbers, washu does not waitlist more than its peers.</p>
<p>That is not true, WashU is notorious for playing games with their waitlist and acceptance rates. Look it up, “yield protection.”</p>
<p>WashU is known for yield protection…ask any guidance counsellor/college counsellor and they’ll tell u that WashU wait lists a ton of over qualified people. At my school one person got into WashU and everyone else, 9 people, were wait listed. Most of those 9 people were overqualified and ended up going to ivy league schools, MIT, and Stanford.</p>
<p>Based on the kids from my son’s school that were accepted, I think the yield protection discussion is a fallacy - 2300’s-2400’s with 4.4-4.5 GPAs, top students in a school that sends many kids to Ivies each year.</p>
<p>Ok, I don’t want to have this discussion again. There’s no evidence for yield protection or “overqualified” students other than anecdotes. Until you have proof to back up your claims, please stop spouting this nonsense. I will NOT reply to any public comments on this thread concerning this topic, so please send me a PM if you wish to continue this discussion.</p>
<p>So don’t reply then… We are just discussing a similar situation that happens every year to seemingly extremely qualified students.</p>
<p>WashU does have a “nice” factor in the admissions process, so maybe that’s why you didn’t get in :)</p>
<p>What is a nice factor?</p>
<p>Does anyone have any info about how many additional kids WUSTL is planning to take off the wait list and when the second round will be (if there is a second round)?</p>
<p>I really hope there will be a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. round. And that we’re all on it (haha, as if). Question: At what point should I give up hope? I’ve heard of people who’ve gotten taken off waitlists in the middle of June and even one in the beginning of July. Does WashU send a notice saying when they’re done?</p>
<p>I was an admitted WashU student who was bad (I was on the pathway and couldn’t figure out where to decline, so I didn’t), and I received this email today:</p>
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<p>I don’t know if that means if they’re taking people off the WL or not, but there you go.</p>
<p>Thanks for the update @purpleacorn. I’m willing to bet some decisions will be released on the 15th. beware the ides of may</p>
<p>students got waitlisted because they are overqualified? That is a so silly statement!
give me a break! Maybe they can be relieved by thinking that way. Admission
is decided based on so many factors. Even good medical schools like to admit students who are well-rounded shaped thesedays. 2400 SAT and uw 4.0 GPS with 12 Ap courses – This is a perfect academic. However, if the student does not have any other impressive record or essay, the student does not deserve admission. Right? As I said before, if a student got rejected by Emory and admitted by Harvard, is the student rejected because he/she is overqualified? I can find many students at Harvard who were rejected by other colleges. If applicants were denied or waitlisted, they’d better concede and go to whichever college they got accepted and move on! If they critcise the college that rejected them, it is not a good attitude and it just makes them look worse.</p>
<p>As far as I know, nobody was picked up from waitlist last year.</p>
<p>Why do u think decisions will be tomorrow youknowwho13?</p>
<p>Well my admissions officer recently told me she would note down my strong interest in my file and that they would release decisions asap…not sure if this means there will be another wave of acceptances from the WL?</p>