<p>I'm from a large urban public school. top 3%. did ED. legacy with father. did summer program and had an excellent interview. unweighted GPA of 3.759 weighted GPA of 5.759. taken a total of 14 AP's. lowest part of application is 29 on ACT. President of speech and debate society/club. eagle scout. SAT 2: math 2-680. 2 year medical internship shadowing a doctor. Treasure of student government. secretary on FBLA board (went to states last year) community service project of collecting over 25,000 books since 5th grade. Strong essays and teacher recommendations. What are my chances? washu has always been my top school.</p>
<p>The only reason you wouldn’t get in are your ACT score and SATII score. Otherwise, your ECs are amazing (as I’m sure you know) and I believe that the legacy helps a lot, along with doing the summer program.</p>
<p>did you get in?</p>
<p>You should send a PM in case they no longer check this subforum.</p>
<p>I was deferred 
guess like the standardized scores are still one of the most important things</p>
<p>My impression from a visit to WUSTL a few days ago is that they place substantial emphasis on test scores and more than other schools do (or at least will admit). The engineering professor co-handling the info session talk about WUSTL expressly mentioned curriculum/grades and then SAT scores as the two key factors in admissions, while de-emphasizing the importance of essays so long as you write about something important to you. This professor also stated that it is worthwhile to take the ACT/SAT several times until you are happy with your scores.</p>
<p>So if you believe that test scores were your primary reason for deferral, I suggest not putting to much stock in getting in RD. After all, in the regular cycle, lots of students with high rest scores deferred/rejected from Ivies, Stanford, Duke, Chicago, Rice, Vandy, and NW, among others, will be applying to WUSTL and making the pool even more competitive.</p>
<p>Not trying to be a downer, just to give you a sense of my impression from the visit.</p>
<p>Muckdog, I don’t think applicants that get deferred at U. Chicago, Rice and Vandy have any chance getting in RD at WashU. I think it may even be difficult for Duke and NW deferrals to get accepted RD at WashU. I would put Duke and NW on the same level as WashU. I would put U. Chicago, Rice and Vandy below WashU.</p>
<p>Uchicago is definitely a peer of washu; vandy and rice might be as well.</p>
<p>Even so, I don’t think it’s as simple as deferred at worse university means rejection at higher one. Colleges look for different things, and often times admissions are a dice roll as well.</p>
<p>I agree it isn’t that clear cut. I don’t think deferred applicants from the non-Ivy schools is what makes it dificult for an ED deferred WashU applicant to get accepted RD (which is what I read from Muckdog’s post). I think it is other things (pure # of top applicants; deferred Ivy ED applicants). You are probably right on U. Chicago. I would disagree on Rice and Vandy.</p>