<p>anyone have email addresses of admissions counselors so that i can let them know that i am very interested in washu?</p>
<p>@srlkholmes
She did not send any supplemental information at all, since she had already decided to attend somewhere else. She was notified by e-mail. I do not know how long she was given to decide, but she’s already turned it down anyway.</p>
<p>Sounds a bit strange, since notifications are usually done by phone.</p>
<p>@ST2 How would we know a prank from the real thing? This sounds like a prank to me…</p>
<p>Definitely not a prank. I’m sorry if you don’t believe me, but I only posted this because I thought that the fact that people ARE being drawn from the waitlist this year would give hope to the waitlistees, because some years many selective colleges don’t end up taking any. I personally was already accepted to WashU, and am not planning on attending, so there is no reason for me to play a mean joke on anybody here. However, if people were already getting off the waitlist at the colleges I am on currently the waitlist for, I would want to know as soon as it happened, just for the sake of having some hope.</p>
<p>Also, btw I just assumed that my friend got contacted by e-mail. She never mentioned anything about a phone call, which I felt she would have done considering that is pretty noteworthy. However, in reality, I have no clue as to whether she was contacted by phone or e-mail.</p>
<p>I suppose someone can just CALL THE ADMISSIONS OFFICE and ask them whether they’ve begun taking people off the waitlist. If they actually give you an answer, I am 99.99% certain they will say yes. If not, then I guess my friend was lying, but that’s NOT something she would do, so I don’t think so. It would be rather petty considering she got into all of the other universities she applied to, and she is already planning to attend somewhere else.</p>
<p>@yummybanana
Ok thanks for sharing… you are right that it is good to know…</p>
<p>I wonder how many National Merit Finalists who designated Wash. U. as their “first choice” for NMSC got waitlisted?</p>
<p>My D. was in that circumstance last year.</p>
<p>Wash U simply one of the best academic and friendly campuses in the country – might be the best combination of intellectual focus and decency in the country.</p>
<p>@ bigG. So did your daughter get in or go elsewhere? And if she got in or at least got called did she do anything special and when did she get called? My daughter is a NMF and would choose Wash U. as her first choice if she wasn’t waitlisted. She is still very interested in attending.</p>
<p>My D. not get off the waitlist. She is very happy at another school.</p>
<p>She got a letter from Wash.U. suggesting that she apply as a transfer. She is not interested in transferring and has “bonded” with her current institution. Her words were something like this; I am not interesting in attending a school where I am not their first choice as a student.</p>
<p>Fortunately she was able to change her Naional Merit “first choice” designation and did recieve a small National Merit award from her current school. Since we have no financial need at her current institution, the small stipend was a nice “we love you” gesture from the school. </p>
<p>Good luck to your D. Wash.U. is a great school.</p>
<p>One consideration for other perspective students, if you are a female interested in pre-med, you don’t have to admit to that aspiration until after you are accepted and have matriculated. Just a thought fom a cynical, disappointed old man who had to see his DD’s heart broken.</p>
<p>agreed, BigG as my daughter applied with an interest in medicine. It might have been better to apply undecided or to a more unpopular major. Who knew.</p>
<p>People who pay big bucks to professional admissions counselors know. We trusted our private prep school college admission office and got burned.</p>
<p>It particularly hurts to see kids from the same prep school with lower class rank and inferior test scores get accepted.</p>
<p>BigG - My son was waitlisted at WashU and also another comparable school that he listed as his ‘first choice’ through NM. I naively thought that would help in the admission process. I guess not. 3.9 gpa, top 1%, 33 ACT, NMF (226 PSAT), 6 APs. In retrospect, I guess he should have studied for the ACT?? Hard to tell what they are looking for, I guess. He’ll make some college proud to have him there.</p>
<p>He is a sound student who will do well where ever he attends.</p>
<p>Then we get to go through the same thing for graduate or professional school.</p>
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<p>spoke with counselor yesterday, she said that the waitlist has been getting cut each of the last two years. They have been more conservative with the waitlist recently since 5 years ago they messed up big time, offering students places that ended up getting taken by RDers. She also said that they expect the waitlist process to be finished by the end of may, so you will know hopefully in a couple weeks. Really everything will be clear within a week after May 1, and then the few kids that get in off of waitlists at Ivies and ditch Washu.</p>
<p>So does that mean it is too late to send in additional information?</p>
<p>Find out how Wash.U. feels about additional information at this time and act accordingly.</p>
<p>Not too late to send in additional info. I would expect the first WL activity to take place within the next 2 weeks.</p>
<p>Hopefully there will be a thread started for those who get off the list and are admitted…or at least offered if they don’t accept…</p>