Dear Wash U...STOP LYING about your admissions statistics!

davida1
Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:08:43 +0000

22428 applicants? Are you kidding me?

Northwestern got less than that. Georgetown only got 16163. Duke got 18090. U Chicago got 10362. Princeton got 18942.

I can’t believe I’m mentioning these top schools when discussing WUSTL, but it’s just to show how ridiculous that number is. Are they counting incomplete apps? Requests for information? Waiving admissions fees for every applicant? Give me a break.

75th Percentile SAT Scores: 1530
25th Percentile SAT Scores: 1370

You are saying that 25% of the student body at WUSTL is composed of students with over a 1530? Why would anyone over a 1530 go to WUSTL? They most likely have several other options including the ivies with that score.

That makes the average of both 1450. Stanford’s average of 75th and 25th percentile scores is 1445. Higher test score stats than Stanford?? Please (Pulleeeessse…). Northwestern’s is 1435 and U Chicago’s is 1430.

Acceptance rate lower than Georgetown, Cornell, Duke, Johns Hopkins, UC Berkeley, Amherst, and Williams? Come on.

This is totally UNETHICAL and they have been doing it for a while now to boost their ranking. Everyone knows WUSTL is lying, so please STOP.

Thanks