<p>These don’t seem like such weird results. WashU just protecting its yield. You have some great choices! Don’t look back, just seize the day and pick one of your great choices.</p>
<p>^^Exactly. As a parent, lists like this make me happy. If you sit on CC long enough it’s easy to believe that if your kid doesn’t have a 5.2 GPA and a 2400 SAT score and hasn’t spent the last 4 years discovering new planets they are on the fast track to community college. This list shows that there are lots of things that go into the college admissions process. Congrats on your achievement!</p>
<p>I got pretty weird ones too:
waitlist: MIT, Pomona, Duke, Columbia, Brown
Accepted: U. Rochester, Hamilton, Swarthmore, Williams
Rej: Yale Stanford CMC
I mean the waitlists sort of made sense, but rejection from CMC and into Swat and Williams was really confusing. It was also one of my better interviews.</p>
<p>I have a strange list as well:
Accepted at: Tulane, Miami of Ohio, Marquette, U of Minnesota, IA State
Out at: UW Madison, UVA, UNC, deferred then denied at U of Michigan and Villanova</p>
<p>I’m not sure you can lump them all together and say the decisions are “weird.” It may look random on the surface, but each school has its own criteria for its decisions and how they want to build their incoming class.</p>
<p>And it really is an impressive list of acceptances…</p>
<p>^ Yours aren’t weird at all. The 4 you got in have much higher acceptance rates than the ones you were rejected/waitlisted at. The only ones that are close are Cal/Rice/JHU.</p>
<p>yeah you’re right about that, i’m talking about the waitlist/reject differential though. seriously who gets waitlisted at harvard and then straight up rejected at duke hopkins and waitlist at rice. the berkeley accept + some waitlist/reject is a bit odd too.</p>
<p>Hahaha, Wash U does have the nickname “Waitlist U.” From what I’ve gathered based on forums posts, demonstrated interest is a very big part of the decision calculus Wash U uses in their admission process, so many applicants whom you would expect to get admitted are often waitlisted or rejected at Wash U.</p>