<p>Yes tenchar</p>
<p>Yes. St. Louis is the closest major city to Chicago. Indianapolis and Milwaukee are closer to Chicago, but are appreciably smaller cities. Minneapolis is farther away from Chicago than St. Louis is.</p>
<p>Honestly, informative, get out and travel sometime. You might be amazed that it’s not just all cornfields.</p>
<p>Actually Pizzagirl, Detroit is a little bit closer to Chicago than St. Louis. I know that everyone like to demean the motor city, but it does have about 4.5 million people living around it.</p>
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<p>Wrong.</p>
<p>Indianapolis and Milwaukee both are larger than St. Louis.</p>
<p>[Top</a> 100 biggest cities](<a href=“http://www.city-data.com/top1.html]Top”>http://www.city-data.com/top1.html)</p>
<p>and many other sites.</p>
<p>The St. Louis metro area is the largest of the three, but not the city itself.</p>
<p>And Milwaukee and Indianapolis are actually larger than St. Louis by population, certainly not “appreciably smaller.”</p>
<p>Well, this thread has pushed me closer to applying to WUSTL. I get so many e-mails from them but I never really thought about applying there.</p>
<p>I was thinking metropolitan area / MSA definitions, since I use them in my work. (Why would anyone use city-proper definitions? That’s really odd, since that’s a function of historic city limits and doesn’t reflect the area.) By MSA:</p>
<p>St. Louis is #18, right below San Diego and above Baltimore and Denver.</p>
<p>Indianapolis is #34, and Milwaukee is #39.</p>
<p>It’s not the middle of nowhere. A few things to do in St. Louis near Wash U:</p>
<p>The Loop: [Visit</a> The Loop](<a href=“http://visittheloop.com/]Visit”>http://visittheloop.com/)</p>
<p>Forest Park: [City</a> of St. Louis: Forest Park](<a href=“http://stlouis.missouri.org/citygov//parks/forestpark/]City”>http://stlouis.missouri.org/citygov//parks/forestpark/)</p>
<p>The Hill: [Ultimate</a> Guide to Dining and Shopping on The Hill in St. Louis](<a href=“http://thehillstl.com/]Ultimate”>http://thehillstl.com/)</p>
<p>Best Burgers St. Louis: [The</a> Best Burgers in St. Louis - St. Louis Magazine - February 2011 - St. Louis, Missouri](<a href=“http://www.stlmag.com/St-Louis-Magazine/February-2011/The-Best-Burgers-in-St-Louis/]The”>http://www.stlmag.com/St-Louis-Magazine/February-2011/The-Best-Burgers-in-St-Louis/)</p>
<p>Do it chrome16…WashU is awesome…It’s a gorgeous campus and a great undergraduate experience from what I can tell. I’m definitely applying there :)</p>
<p>I’ve pretty much made up my mind to apply by now 
Might drop Emory though, to save myself some paperwork haha</p>
<p>^good choices!</p>
<p>Can’t wait to be back in two days…</p>
<p>Just to throw my 10 cents in. My daughter graduated from Wash U and got a management consulting job in Manhattan. She personally knows quite a few people who are in IB in Manhattan making 6 figures who just graduated. It has a well-deserved reputation for having brilliant students who are all very happy there. Several people who she interviewed with said things like, “Everyone I’ve ever met from Wash U was really smart”. Great dorms, great food. It’s also a very flexible school. You can change your major whenever you want. You can take any class anywhere. You can double major in Engineering and Anthropology if you want. Lots of schools don’t let you do this.</p>
<p>St. Louis is an OK city. I wouldn’t say it was a big plus for her. Students tend to live in the “Wash U bubble” but there are a lot of big corporations in St. Louis that do offer internships.</p>
<p>That’s good to know guys! Sounds like a very good school… maybe a little isolated from the big east coast “action”, but for the rest it should be a very pleasant experience if one got admitted… does anyone know if they offer FA/scholarships? for international students too?</p>
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<p>Because you said “city,” not “MSA.” There’s a difference.</p>
<p>Can’t understand why anyone would knock Wash U. People familiar with the school know that it has significant east coast connections. It’s law school is very well regarded on Capitol Hill, William Webster of the CIA and the Reagan Administration being one notable alumus.</p>
<p>And people should educate themselves about St. Louis before criticizing it. Sure St.L has fallen on difficult times during the past 40 years or so, like other former powerhouses of the industrial midwest. St.L reminds me of Philadelphia in a way. It was once one of the biggest cities in America and certainly the preimenent city of the “west,” before the rise of the Pacific Coast in the 1950s and the growth of places like Dallas in the 1960s. Like Philadelphia, the city proper has lost thousands of people in this period as its suburbs prospered, which is why the municipality of St. Louis has a smaller population than many other major cities. But it has enjoyed success in re-making itself. It’s not San Diego, but it’s not a dying city.</p>
<p>For some reason, people like to knock Wash U. They are very concerned with their rankings and may do some things to manipulate them. But apart from that, it is a great school. Look at their SAT scores. Higher than half of the ivys. I think that’s because Wash U has fewer alums, no recruited squash and crew people, etc. They seem more willing to take “overrepresented” people, ethnically and geographically, with good stats. They also give merit scholarships and I don’t think the Ivys do. You have kids who aren’t poor enough to get aid from an Ivy who get full rides at Wash U.</p>
<p>That said, I don’t know how much of a plus St. Louis is. Daughter occasionally went to a mall, a baseball game, the symphony, etc. It’s a little dangerous. There’s enough going on on-campus that most people don’t feel a need to leave too often although it’s very near a wonderful park that has free museums, a free zoo, etc. that some kids take advantage of.</p>