<p>Another data point, daughter accepted to Harvard, Stanford, Duke and Caltech, waitlisted by Wash U. </p>
<p>Advice: if you think you qualify for the above schools and want to go Wash U instead, you need to convince Wash U that you really have wash u as your top choice. Wash U does not want the yield to go down because of you.</p>
<p>D is attending Harvard (junior), she was accepted at Wash U. Niece is sophomore at Wash U, she was accepted also at Harvard and Yale and two state universities. Nephew is also at Wash U; he applied and was accepted at Princeton and Cornell (Wash U gave him full merit scholarship).
Wash U don't care about yield, they don't care about these discussions either, they got what they want and that's it.</p>
<p>it's interesting that you can make such a bold conclusion with three family member's situations.</p>
<p>It’s interesting people who make bold conclusions when they don't have kids at the university ;)</p>