<p>Can someone tell me all the positive things about WUSTL...also...can you give some statistics on it...like how many people apply and how many get in....</p>
<p>WUSTL is rated among ivy league schools, and has passed up northwestern. i dont know the numbers/percentages.</p>
<p>positives:
1) pre-med/med: i'm not going into that area so idk a lot, but they're renowned for that.
2) campus - it's beautiful, friendly, relaxed, in st louis. basically the perks of a big city and the loop? i think that's what they call it - some neighborhood near the university w/ places to eat, etc. - but the campus has the comfort and security of a rural campus
3) staff! they're all incredibly, incredibly friendly. in dealing with the school, admissions officers, etc. i have been touched by how they all actually seem to care when you know you could likely just end up in a reject pile. they're about a million times friendlier than all of the ivies i've dealt with.
4) students - i've visited the campus several times, and there's a stark contrast between the students ive encountered here versus other places. there was a good amount of relaxed, really chill intellectual types (among of course the normal intelligent types). the applicants (i wasnt really around the students at other places) i encountered who were applying other places ranged from overly-eager-clearly-legacy students to dull types of students who are probably more obsessed with studying and gaining A's than holding a really great conversation.
5) great dorms
6) wonderful food
7) i'm pretty sure there's ony 1 required class</p>
<p>+about a million more positives</p>
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i'm pretty sure there's ony 1 required class
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<p>That's true, but there are some pretty elaborate distribution requirements (though you can fulfill them by taking a whole range of classes) - kind of similar to Stanford.</p>
<p>Washington</a> University in St. Louis :: FACTS 2007
Washington</a> University in St. Louis :: FACTS 2007</p>
<p>i saw that page...but it doesn't state how many people applied and how many gets accepted..</p>
<p>ahhhhhhh: Wash U is exceptionally secretive about the info you would like to know....No common data set either....I think that I read somewhere last year that 22,000 applied (that may have been with ED) and that they have a very low acceptance rate (something like 17-19%).....doesn't make much sense with a 30% yield, but if anyone else wants to chime in, please do....have been wondering about this stuff for over a year now......</p>
<p>From Princeton Review:
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Freshman Admission Statistics
Total applicants who are accepted: 21%
Total of accepted students who enroll: 32%
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<p>wow...only 32 of those accepted attended...i thought that it might be higher than that....</p>
<p>Only 34 percent of those accepted to University of Chicago enrolled and that's considered a pretty good school, I believe. WUSTL shares the 32 percent yield with Johns Hopkins, also considered highly reputable. Northwestern at 38 percent. Some top-notch universities have less than half of those admitted accepting and enrolling: Duke, Cornell, Georgetown. I wouldn't wring one's hands over yield. </p>
<p>There are some stats on acceptance to Washu at the NCES site. College</a> Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics</p>
<p>Just type in Washington University and then go to the second page to find WUSTL.</p>
<p>jazzymom: thanks for the link; never saw that before (my guesses were pretty accurate though, surprisingly.....)</p>
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<p>Actually, if you follow the second link I posted, it shows just that - by school and totals. Look at the bottom of the page. Those are numbers for 2006. The acceptance rate went down a little since.</p>
<p>Can't tell you the stats, but can tell you that the freshman advising program was great. There are lots of resources to help freshman navigate their first year and prepare for the second. I think my daughter had four advisors her first year...a peer advisor, 4 year advisor (a dean in artsci), premed advisor, and as I recall one more...maybe in her dorm? I second all of the positive comments about staff, dorms, food, etc....those were certainly true last year. The student body is a definite strength...brilliant, highly motivated, but friendly and not cut-throat. Top-notch professors who care about students. The Greek system is strong but not the only way for students to get involved.There are also some great events, like Thurtene (did I spell it right?) and WILD. So far, in her second year, she is finding it a great fit, despite the awful St. Louis weather.</p>
<p>". . .awful St. Louis weather."</p>
<p>freshymom, care to elaborate?</p>
<p>Ice,snow, rain, more ice, more snow, more rain, and terrible hot during the first weeks of school...get the picture? ;)</p>
<p>can't be any worse than Maine, can it?</p>
<p>It's the midwest in winter, what else do you expect?</p>
<p>The summer months aren't that bad (I was there from mid June to mid July). The dorms have nice air conditioning units and the classrooms were so cold I had to wear a sweatshirt in July.</p>
<p>We just had a fantastic weekend of weather, going into the 50s and 60s.</p>
<p>However, I'm looking out of my window right now and it's a winter wonderland. I hear it will snow about 6 inches today, and I bet we're close to that number already. I chose not to trek to my morning class, but now I must go to the library.</p>
<p>We've got good days and bad days. I'm guessing University founders chose not to take weather into account when finding locations for their schools. Funny that some of the best schools are located in very frigid places.</p>
<p>Ahhhhh, I tried to reply to your message but my responce wouldn't go through. Please try again. Maybe I'm just not as computer literate as I think.</p>
<p>Yeah, the weather here sucks. On Sunday the temperature was in the 60s, and then on Tuesday we got ~12 inches of snow (IIRC). Oh well, you get used to it XD</p>