<p>sorry, typo waitlisted fall 2010</p>
<p>campmom, thanks for your encouraging post. (Did you mean, waitlisted Fall 2009?) Hills-and-valleys: it’s quite a process, isn’t it? </p>
<p>To longron, your “smug mommies” comment hit a sore note, that’s all. Truth is, I think the posters who are smug are those who wrote to say they got in, but WUSL is their second or third choice. Why say that to applicants who think of WUSL as their top choice, but didn’t get in? There have been many. Now that’s smug!</p>
<p>If i may interject, please, I’d like to request all mommies to PLEASE stop abbreviating, using D AND DS and S…it’s kind of annoying. really. it’s not cool, either, if that’s what you’re getting at.</p>
<p>^charlieharper: Sorry that the common D/S/DD/DS abbreviations are irritating you. It’s done all over CC by parents. It’s not an effort to be “cool”. It’s just an accepted form on these forums to avoid using given names but not have to type out son, daughter, my kid, sweet pea, or any other annoying form of endearment. </p>
<p>How typically adolescent to think that parents are making an effort to be cool. I promise you, we don’t care about being cool. We are too busy being parents/spouses/citizens/people. </p>
<p>Most of us are mature enough to realize that, at least in your teenaged eyes, the ship of cool sailed right by our ports.</p>
<p>^longrohnsilver: Not that it will make the slightest difference to you, but the reason I am here is because I care about all of the students, not just my own kid. I am reading the posts on all of the threads for all of the schools where my son applied. </p>
<p>Why? I am interested in learning about the type of kids who might end up at college with my son, to some degree (and I guess that’s how it all started). But at this point, I’m here because I care about these students: I care about how they feel about the process, and I believe people come to CC for information and support. (I certainly have used it for both of those things.) Other parents do too, but particularly the students.</p>
<p>I suppose some folks just want to ventilate, they don’t want active support. But blowing smoke would indeed be ridiculous.</p>
<p>…I got accepted into WUSTL…but i’m shooting for the ivies…but now i’m kinda scared due to all this talk about “overqualification”</p>
<p>Well, at least it isn’t as bad as MIT. We had a kid, 90s+ average, 2250 SAT Superscored, Fermat/Cayley/AMC math contests and w/e, International Physics Olympiad Bronze+Silver medals get rejected from MIT. It shocked the whole school.</p>
<p>I guess it’s because he applied FA, and I once read an article describing how MIT accepts 80% applicants who can afford it, and 20% who need FA. </p>
<p>Or maybe it’s because there were too many physics kids this year.</p>
<p>i do not understand why people think they got waitlisted because they ‘‘showed no interest’’. i showed no interest and was just accepted…</p>
<p>^^ to altruition "rejected from MIT. It shocked the whole school.</p>
<p>I guess it’s because he applied FA, and I once read an article describing how MIT accepts 80% applicants who can afford it, and 20% who need FA. "</p>
<p>MIT has need-blind policies thus financial need isn’t a factor in the admissions decision. Wash U is one of the very few need-aware yet extremely prestigious schools. Anyone want to name another? Take a look at the number of need-blind and full meet schools on wikipedia, you’ll be surprised at how many and some of the names on the list.</p>
<p>^ john hopkins.</p>
<p>& daaaaaaaaaaamn this thread is LONG</p>
<p>Wash U is just flat out one of the best schools in the country and I am tired of the crap nitpicking it. The quality of the students, faculty and campus life are all tops. Why don’t all the nasty critics just lay off? Enough!</p>
<p>WashU was one of my top choices a few years back. It was my top choice, but money was an issue so I took a Regents scholarship at one of the UCs instead.
I never understood why people are so upset over the waitlist. Get over it people. I had a very high SAT I score, perfect GPA, and the awards and leadership–I didn’t get waitlisted. I was accepted. Two of my best friends who are now at WashU were also incredible, talented people. So waitlisted people-- sorry to break it to you, but if you were waitlisted, maybe you just weren’t good enough for WashU.</p>
<p>I would like to know if anyone is accepted with SAT 2350 or higher, which is for HARVARD, YALE and PRINCETON. They are the really top ones with need-blind policy. If you can find a good number, Washington is not afraid of overqulaified students. Many Harvard applicants would apply to Wash U as a safey. I guess they would get waitlisted from Wash U but will get into Ivy Schools.</p>
<p>yea - a girl i know got accepted to wustl, near perfect sat, but i forgot her precise score. definitely 2350+ going into engineering. i think her sister went to wustl too, tho</p>
<p>@redbreaker
I looked at the “Class of 2014 Official RD Decisions Thread” and, as of today, I found 10 admits with SAT scores between 2340 and 2400 (of whom 3 had perfect 2400 scores) and 1 with an ACT score of 35. There are quite a few more with scores between 2300 and 2330.</p>
<p>How many students with 2350 or higher applied to Wash U do you think? Only 10 or 20? I think more! If they accepted only 10 or 20, it is sad!</p>
<p>^ Surely you don’t believe ALL applicants are posting on CC. But of the small sample that we have, those were the numbers…</p>
<p>“Only 10 or 20? I think more!”</p>
<p>^^ Yea and EVERY ONE of them is right here on CC! … </p>
<p>… of the two million US students who take the SAT only about 50K score 2200+ (about the same as reach NMSF status) … now let’s see … how many universities are there in the US … ? … and by various methods, most tier 1 schools will get SOME of these … DO THE MATH redbreaker …<sigh></sigh></p>
<p>First of all, the number of National Merit Semi finalist is 16,000 not 50,000 last year. Of course applicants with SAT 2000 to 2200 would be usually accepted to Wash U. My point is it seems that those with SAT 2350 are rarely accepted to Wash U by reading this thread. However, I am sure many hundred applicants with SAT 2350 or higher applied to Wash U. Were most of them accepted? If not, I would like to know why. For your reference, it is around 3000 who score SAT 2350 or higher last year. If you have any other stats, let’s stick to 2350.</p>
<p>@red…,</p>
<p>yes you are right, the 50K is the initial “commended” pool … IF you have a 2350+ AND are rejected from ANYWHERE, there MUST be more to the story … MOST colleges are not seeking one dimensional students, and some in the 2350+ cohort may have this problem, but if I were betting … I’d bet the VAST majority of 2350+ applicants to WashU WERE accepted …</p>