<p>i went during the summer and i think it was 98 degrees, but they served us frozen custard 
nothing like free food to get you to love a school …haha but in all honesty, even in the sweltering heat the campus was pretty
and my second choices are michigan, berkeley, vanderbilt, or emory</p>
<p>@sandiegoswag where did you meet the girl from mass? hahah weird…i visited early in september too…hahah
yeah i have a similar story. i was really going hard after the ivys and d1 had some offers yadda yadda. but when i stepped foot on washu’s campus i just knew. plus the team is so awesome and the coach ahh! and didn’t xc just win the national championship…? beastin.</p>
<p>i visited in september! it was awesome SO beautiful. unfortunately i went out and stayed with a player on a wednesday night and the girl had 8am class so i didn’t get to see much that night. but it was sooo gorgeous when i was there.</p>
<p>she was in my campus tour group!! she seemed pretty chill and yeah i visited on Sept. 7-9 and the weather was perfect but everyone warned me it wouldn’t be like that all the time haha but the campus was amazing and we had practice at Forest Park which was legit and the dining halls are sooo sick. the girls team won D3 champs and the guys team was 3rd so it’ll be fun being a winning team</p>
<p>@sandiegoswag omg that would be so weird if we met…are you from california? i visited on those dates too! did you have practice at 6am or really early or something? i definitely met you if you did…so weird. that’s so sick about the xc team! that’ll be SO much fun</p>
<p>Washington University is one of the best DIII schools for athletics, isn’t it?</p>
<p>@nina
YES it has great sports. not everything is great, but something like 10 of WashU’s teams are ranked in the top 10 for d3.</p>
<p>@apitkin12 haha honestly what if we did…yeah i’m from california and we had practice at 6:30am it was rough not gonna lie. </p>
<p>@nina1228 yes they are! mens basketball just beat the no.1 D3 team in the nation!! (Augustana) BEAR DOWNNN.</p>
<p>@sandiegoswag omg you were in my tour group! hahaha what are the chances like honestly. lovin the spirit already</p>
<p>As sports freak, it would be awesome to attend a school with amazing sports teams without the big state school size.</p>
<p>And guys, that is totally freaky!!!</p>
<p>How did everyone find out about Wash U?
For me, it was just crazy. I honestly haven’t heard about Wash U that much until end of last year. I was just talking to my art teacher about colleges and she mentioned Wash U. After I did some research, I just felt in love with that school, because I was looking for some colleges, which have both good art program and chemistry. They are irrelevant subjects, so it was really hard to find schools like that. Then, soon I remembered the author of the book who inspired me to be an exchange student went Wash U. and my triplet brother who is also a current exchange student actually lives 20 minutes far from Wash U. His host dad went Wash U. When I volunteered for one of the Cedar Point events, my advisor was actually current student of Wash U. Just found out my host mom’s dad’s close friend is a current professor in Wash U. It was just keep going on and on and on!!! I just felt like it’s the RIGHT SCHOOL! (isn’t it crazy? I’m from foreign country, which is about size of State of Indiana. I just never had this personal connection before)</p>
<p>@nina1228 @apitkin12 whoaa this is unreal!! IT’S FATE. </p>
<p>we’re all destined to be Bears.</p>
<p>@rkdus0818
It is totally awesome that you have so many connections to WashU! I personally found WashU sort of indirectly. A few years ago, Johns Hopkins was my DREAM school. There was no other school that I wanted to even apply to. So, anyway, I eventually convinced myself that applying to only one school is probably not the best approach. I researched schools that had good premed programs like JHU, and I found WashU. At first I was like “Yeah right no one has ever heard of that place before so it must suck” (I was very ignorant!). So anyway I did more research and found that WashU had everything that JHU had, plus so much more that is not exactly quantifiable (social atmosphere, sports, FA, academic flexibility, etc.) And most importantly IT’S IN THE MIDWEST! For some reason I am drawn to the Midwest, probably because I am an Ohioan:)</p>
<p>this is like the weirdest thing ever… i guess it is fate…? and rkdus the SAME things happened to me. it was like EVERYTHING in my life somehow directed me to washu! cannot believe we met sandiegoswag hahah wow…</p>
<p>@apitkin12 who would have thought? and i’m surprised i’m even on college confidential since normally these forums stress me out hahah hopefully we’ll laugh about this one day whilst strolling through the South 40! crazy stuff…</p>
<p>like Nina1228 said before, everything happens for a reason. We all mean to be there!!! lol lol</p>
<p>@nina
haha I totally understand cuz I’m Ohioan too! (not technically, but anyway… haha) Yeah, I don’t really want to go east coast neither. I don’t know… it’s just all the good colleges are in east coast. I also believe Wash U has a lot of potential!</p>
<p>It would also be kind of cool to go to an up-and-coming school (though it is already amazing academically, it is not nearly recognized enough to the general public) so that one day when the next president graduates from WashU I could say “Yeah, that’s my alma mater, no biggy.”</p>
<p>@rkdus0818</p>
<p>I just realized your account name is ga-yeon in Korean!
Where in Korea are you from?</p>
<p>@sandiegoswag
i hope so!</p>
<p>@nina
i totally agree. washu doesn’t have the ‘name-recognition’ at all out here on the east coast. but i have no doubt it will soon enough. the few people out here that have actually known what i’m talking about are really impressed.</p>
<p>@Jeunesoleil
Yep! My korean name is GaYoen.
I’m from Seoul, Korea. Actually, I live in Bundang…
where r u from? do go school in US?</p>
<p>Okay so last year i was CONVINCED that I wanted to go to a school in the northeast, not too far from nyc. And I was set on Cornell, but then I realized that I would be back during the breaks and that I should try to expose myself to life in other areas of the country. At first when I began researching school outside of the northeast and I came across Wash U, I had a reaction similar to nina1228’s (and they kept sending me ALL these booklets and pamphlets in the mail so I was convinced that they were desperate and sucked). One day, just for fun I decided to search the school and found out that it was actually AMAZING. and I just kept finding out more amazing things about it until I realized that it had somehow become my number one, and that cornell was left in the dust. Also the weather in st louis is similar to weather in nyc while ithaca is FREEZING during the winters (which was when I visited Cornell).</p>