WUSTL Class of 2017 Questions Thread

<p>^^^Are you a fan of Ryan Kelly from Duke? Same HS I presume.</p>

<p>Yep, he was a year ahead of me in high school but I knew him and his parents pretty well (his mom is headmaster and his dad was my physics teacher).</p>

<p>Wow didn’t know his parents were in those roles. Now the hard question - how do I talk my D into going to WashU?? Mostly just kidding, I know its where fit is best. I’m 90% sure she isn’t going to pick WashU and I’m kind of bummed.</p>

<p>Can anyone tell me about IPH (Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities) experience as a freshman? How many people are in the program, how tough is the workload, etc?</p>

<p>I am interested in learning more about the IPH program as well, pianoman0929! If any current WashU students could shed some light on their experiences with this program directly or indirectly, it would be much appreciated. Also, I saw on the Writing I website that there is a special section reserved for Text & Tradition students…what courses do you have to take in order to get into this section/is it any different than the “regular” Writing I sections?</p>

<p>Unfortunately, I am not familiar with the IPH program, nor the Text and Tradition classes. Hopefully somebody else here knows about them, but if not, your advisors will be more than happy to help out.</p>

<p>Not a problem! I bet there are a couple more people on here. What about humanities programs in general (languages, comp lit, history etc.)? Any that you particularly recommend at WashU? I’m considering potentially going into law so hopefully I’ll be able to find a couple options once I’m on campus.</p>

<p>I’m not a huge humanities guy, but I am a fan of both the philosophy and linguistics departments at washu. I’m guessing they aren’t particularly excellent compared to other universities, but I’ve found the courses I’ve taken to be interesting. I took a week on language, and found it to be too intensive for my liking. (I earned a 5 on the AP Spanish exam. I placed into Spanish 307 at washu, but it required more dedication than I wanted to put into a language.) Other than those limited cases, I’m not really a good person to be asking, haha</p>

<p>What does “healthy living” mean? There was this option when I was submitting my housing form, but I had no idea what a “substance-free” room meant.</p>

<p>My daughter got in to class of 2017 but is probably going to take a gap year. Anyone currently at WashU take a gap year and how did you let them know? Was it before accepting or after? </p>

<p>Secondly, my daughter will live on campus but will need her car for a regular extracurricular she has been involved with that is off campus. I know they are strict about cars for freshmen but is there any way to get special permission or keep a car close to (but not on) campus?</p>

<p>Sub-free floors are floors where alcohol (and other drugs) are not allowed.</p>

<p>I’m not familiar with gap years, unfortunately. I’m pretty sure washu doesn’t make any exceptions for cars for freshmen. If the activity can’t be reached by metro, then I’m not sure what to recommend.</p>

<p>Which extracurricular is that? As Ryan said, I don’t know of any freshman who have been allowed to have a car. If she really desperately needs a car, she can use WeCar.</p>

<p>Thing to note: there are no longer sub-free floors starting next year. There are only sub-free rooms. Which is incredibly ridiculous and defeats the purpose of a sub-free environment. </p>

<p>While I myself never would have chosen to live on a subfree floor, I can understand why someone might. But I cannot understand the concept of a subfree room. It’s ridiculous and unenforcible.</p>

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No. There are no waivers for things like that. That being said, they can’t very well stop you from parking your car legally on a street like Wydown…</p>

<p>To be fair, Johnson181, if a student is uncomfortable with alcohol, his/her biggest concern is that his/her room is sub-free. While one can avoid going to other people’s rooms if they are drinking, one cannot reasonably avoid going to one’s own room if there is drinking taking place. I think it’s probably just as enforceable as having an entire sub-free floor, which is to say hardly enforceable at all.</p>

<p>At this point it essentially functions like the “do you care if your roommate is a smoker?” question.</p>

<p>And Johnson, what about non-freshmen buying parking passes for freshmen? I can’t think of anyone I know who’s done that but I don’t see a way to prevent it.</p>

<p>The parking pass are registered under the upperclass name. They also take the vehicle information the pass will be used on. I guess if the freshman never makes a mistake where they park or does not get involved with the parking police or their peers do not get jealous and rat them, nobody will care. But i think the upperclass is taking a risk if something does happen. Btw, i would think most if not all washu students have integrity in them.</p>

<p>@RaVNzCRoFT or @FLtoWashU would either of you be someone who could answer my two questions from the top of this page and the bottom of page 11? If not, no problem!</p>

<p>Thanks a lot guys! But I thought drinking under 21 was illegal in the States……-_-|||</p>

<p>Ryan, I guess that’s a valid point. But at that point, you may as well have a roommate contract that says no drinking in the room. Were the non-drinking roommate to be upset about drinking in the room, the RA is already required to deal with it and Redflagg them.</p>

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Not at all. We used to drink with my RA in the room. Of course that wouldn’t/couldn’t happen with a subfree floor. (to be fair, a subfree room would have the same restriction, but that just leads to closing doors if the roommates want to drink).</p>

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Supposedly if you get caught both you and the upperclassmen get in all sorts of trouble. I’ve only heard rumors though, as I don’t know anyone personally who has been caught.</p>

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…so? This is college. The vast majority of WashU students drink. WashU is a wet campus, and ResLife adopts a policy of “don’t be an idiot.” So long as you aren’t being an idiot/flagrant/dangerous, ResLife does not believe it is their job to narc on you.</p>

<p>Edit: to be clear, if you want to avoid alcohol, you certainly can find friends who don’t drink.</p>

<p>Hi, I’ll probably attend WashU, and I have two oddly paired questions. First, is it against the school rule to smoke in your own room? Second, how prestigious is WashU on the east coast exactly (I’m from the midwest but thinking of getting a job on the east coast)?</p>