<p>Waitlisted with a 2290 and no demonstrated interest. Well, I would’ve chosen Amherst over WUSTL, and I’m already in there. </p>
<p>35 ACT, 3.95 GPA, IB Candidate, visited, financial aid office called my parents.
Waitlisted. LOL
EA Accepted to Michigan, Georgetown, UChicago. ROFL
I’ll tell you where to put your waitlist, WashU</p>
<h1>UChicago 2018</h1>
<p>Son ACCEPTED- Arts and Sciences
36 ACT, 4.0 GPA, 12+ AP courses (scores of “5” on all 8 tests taken so far), NMFinalist, 3 Varsity Sport Athlete, Team Captain, Numerous academic awards (up to state level) in Math and Science competitions and in foreign languages, Pianist for 12+ years</p>
<p>Accepted to the College of Arts and Sciences! 2310 SAT (one sitting), 800 Bio, 800 US History, 790 Lit. 3.98 GPA, and unique extracurriculars (plus a bunch of science and writing awards). I’m fairly certain my essays and recs were excellent, but I didn’t show too much interest in WUSTL aside from sending an mid-year update. This is the first acceptance I’ve gotten from a school I might actually want to attend, so I’m very pleased!</p>
<p>Just curious - under “planning your campus visit” it says that WUSTL will pay for airfare. Is this for everyone??? If so, that’s awesome! Do other schools do this, too?</p>
<p>They rejected my lazy white a$$.
ACT: 34, GPA: 3.74, Class rank: 83 percentile, 10 APs, cross country captain…</p>
<p>accepted to olin - it was my second choice, i submitted last minute and showed no interest (no interview, too). Absolutely overwhelmed :)</p>
<p>Accepted into Arts and Sciences!
35 Act and 2230 SAT both one sitting
gonna end up with 10 aps and 4 and 5 on all of them
14/800 in my school but only cause of some classes i had to take
4.7/5 gpa and about 3.9/4 unweighted</p>
<p>@ivyleaguefan By second choice, do you mean Wash U is your second choice school or that Olin was your second choice of college within Wash U? </p>
<p>@jeffthink Olin was my second choice - my first choice was CAS. Absolutely overwhelmed.</p>
<p>My S told me yesterday he was wait-listed and then he chuckled:)) I asked, what’s funny? he says, “mom, I have 4 schools waiting on me including an Ivy…do they really think I’m going to wait for them?” LOL</p>
<p>D accepted to School of Engineering. ACT 36, 4.7ish GPA, all 5’s on AP’s, strong EC’s and awards…and double legacy so not a surprise but was a little disappointed she didn’t make Danforth Finalist.</p>
<p>Thanks for the sobering rejection (if I hadn’t been accepted to Berkeley already, I would have managed a few tears). It’s kind of funny in retrospect that I chose to apply to a need-aware school with an EFC of 0. The fact that there were no supplements and that I showed no interest (heck, I didn’t even know it was in Missouri until today) didn’t help, either. Congrats to all that got in, though. </p>
<p>@annel96
Interesting!!
<a href=“George Washington University Has for Years Claimed to be 'Need-Blind.' It’s Not. — ProPublica”>http://www.propublica.org/article/george-washington-university-has-for-years-claimed-to-be-need-blind.-its-no</a></p>
<p>My daughter was just accepted and did not have the stellar results of some of others mentioned here that have been waitlisted. Sometimes it’s just a matter of timing and the Universities needs as they relate to the applicant pool. Be encouraged, as you will end up at a fabulous institution with your stats!</p>
<p>I have two questions about the waitlist that were not completely answered in the info they sent us.</p>
<p>Is it binding? Does being put on the waitlist indicate that you will most definitely change your college plans if offered a spot after May1?</p>
<p>Is there any advantage to accepting a spot now instead of waiting a few weeks to hear other options?</p>
<p>^^ They will call you with an acceptance offer, if you still interested they will send you the paperwork with FA pkg, then you can accept or decline its on you. So saying yes on waiting list is no binding . </p>
<p>First, in response to Saona63’s post above: WashU and George Washington U. are NOT the same!</p>
<p>Second, tropicalslushies . . .</p>
<p>(1) No, the waitlist is not binding. You can accept a place on the list and then do whatever you please. Just be aware that if you stay on the list after committing somewhere else, it can be more than a little disconcerting to receive an August/September offer from WashU. (My son was once offered a spot off a waitlist in July, and it really threw us for a loop . . . until we realized it was just too late to change gears, so he said “thanks, but no thanks” to the waitlist offer.)</p>
<p>(2) I’d strongly encourage you not to accept a spot on the waitlist until you’ve had a chance to review your other options. There’s no rush, so long as you accept the waitlist spot by whatever WashU’s deadline is.</p>
<p>Remember, the waitlist is NOT your friend. It is there as a tool of convenience for the university. In the event that they can’t scrounge up 1,000 enrollments from the 4,000 or so acceptances they’ve sent out, they’ll turn to the waitlist to find a likely candidate. So, if you have another offer that you’re just as happy to accept, tell WashU “thanks, but no thanks” for its waitlist offer.</p>
<p>And if you don’t have another reasonable offer, then you need to see if you can’t find one (quick!), or plan on taking a year off so you can try again next year.</p>
<p>As I’ve said before, if, by some miracle, a waitlist offer comes through after you’ve deposited elsewhere, you can always accept the offer if you still want to. All you have to do is let the other school know, and be prepared to forfeit the deposit you paid. Your second choice school will understand - people change their minds all the time.</p>
<p>@saona63, your link above is about George Washington U and not Washington U in St. Louis. 
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<p>^ oops my bad, I apologize:((</p>
<p>accepted to arts… with 2350/ 95 %/ NMF/ AP scholar with distinction BUT without any demonstrated interest whatsoever !!! My theory is that Wash U takes students with high SATs or students who would most likely enroll once they are accepted to maintain their ranking- just a theory. Also, they don’t care about the GPAs as much with students, who come from high schools that do not rank, as long as they have high SATs.</p>