<p>How would you compare Tufts with WashU then? as in environment, quality of students and teachers, and job/internship opportunities close by? I am really quite unsure about USC now because it feels kinda weird…hmm I guess a 32 ACT isn’t a good enough guarantee to be competitive at Tufts or Ann Arbor? or WashU?</p>
<p>IMHO, a 32 ACT is competitive at all the schools you mentioned, but even a 34-26 is no guarantee of admission to any /and/or all of them. As the old saying goes: “You pays your money and you takes your chance”. Looking at the bright side, you can get a great education at any/or all of them.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>You are in the possible range for all those schools. The only ones who can give you a realistic assessment of your chances are the members of the admissions committees at those schools, and then only when they have your complete application package in front of them.</p>
<p>This message is MIT-specific, but the principle applies to all selective colleges:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/10581800-post1.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/10581800-post1.html</a></p>
<p>Make sure your college list includes some safeties - schools where your stats are well above the norm, that you can pay for under most pessimistic FA assumptions, and where you’d be happy.</p>
<p>I’d be more concern if people in your country considered WUSTL “in the middle of nowhere”. As an international student, you chance for a job/internship or even an interview are limited by your status.</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, 32 ACT is the middle of the mid-50% at WashU. Why don’t you look at the WashU forum? There is an active thread about all the reasons why you should go there.</p>
<p>WUSTL is extremely underrated in my opinion</p>
<p>Good grief, how is a school rated (I think) 12 “underrated”? It’s not as well known to high school seniors who aren’t worldly, but that’s very different.</p>
<p>32 is the 25th percentile. Its definitely underrated in that so many seem to think it doesn’t deserve its position in the USNWR, but when you look at any thread about happy students or nice campuses, its definitely earned its place as a school full of smart, nice people.</p>
<p>WUSTL is a great school and comparable to the ivies. St. Louis is a great city no matter what you may hear. And the Wash U campus is beatiful. You will find a job.</p>
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<p>I do not think Pierre meant to say that WUSTL/WashU was … under-ranked. The school has been ranked very high by USNews for a long time. On the other hand, he is onto something when writing that the school is underrated as in … under-appreciated. </p>
<p>For perhaps all the wrong reasons, it is a fact that the school rarely gets high marks in this forum (and in many circles) and is often derided for its marketing tactics. The school also seems to have a hard time shedding the image that it is particularly effective in enrolling high stats students who were rejected by the more or equally selective schools, all the while rejecting most students who seem “destined” to be accepted at the more or equally selective schools. As far as being comparable to the Ivies, I would wager that the school has a large overlap in applications, but a minuscule overlap in enrollment. Something similar to what happens to Stanford and Berkeley. </p>
<p>I also happen to believe that the school does not help itself by remaining ultra closed-lipped about its admission statistics. Unjust as it might be, it does not help the school to spend a fortune on marketing efforts but be happy to retreat behind a wall of quasi-secrecy when convenient. </p>
<p>In so many words, WashU makes it difficult to find a reason to like it!</p>
<p>The unfortunate reality is that all jobs are not created equally. The best jobs don’t hire from WashU.</p>
<p>^Depends on what you want to do. Wash U has an amazing anthropology program. Plus that whole med school thing.</p>
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<p>I’m pretty sure it would be zero. </p>
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<p>Such as…?</p>
<p>^ The only worthy jobs to slipper are those in investment banking, private equity, and management consulting.</p>
<p>WUSTL is very numbers-driven, from what I’ve heard. Get your scores as high up as you can to improve your chances. St. Louis is a really nice city, and the kids at WUSTL are generally pretty friendly. Definitely a school on the rise.</p>
<p>Those are the “elite” jobs.</p>
<p>But irrelevant if that’s not what one wants to do. Really, slipper, those are just some of many, many possible jobs. Open your mind and stop thinking about what allegedly impresses others.</p>
<p>Oh well, let WashU be “under appreciated” by a bunch of never-traveled, closed-minded hs seniors who anxiously judge colleges by “prestige” to gain some social standing that they otherwise wouldn’t have. Who cares? It’s rather like bclintonk’s response about his d going to Haverford and eliciting “what’s that” – oh, well, your problem that you don’t know how good it is, not mine. </p>
<p>Look, we all get tired of the tiresome “but it’s not known in my home country!” crap on these boards – worrying about the opinions of people who don’t know any better as if they should count for something. I consider people “not respecting” WashU on par with people “not respecting” top LACs they just haven’t heard of. The people who matter know better.</p>
<p>Slipper, I know a few WashU students who got the so called “elite” jobs. One girl who got admitted to Harvard 2+2 MBA and being employed at McKinsey in the interim, for example. I also know a few Harvard grads who got oh so common jobs, teaching science at hour local private HS, working for our town newspaper. Different jobs for different folks. And who knows, those you look down at for now, those who are working in the common jobs, will end up being your CEO in the future ;)</p>