Did anyone get accepted as a "January Scholar"?

wbwa
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:25:26 +0000

“Most schools that I have heard of admit a number of students in January”

Again, ???

You mention USC but you bypassed all top 25 ranked national universities (other than Wash U). A January admission plan for freshman is virtually UNHEARD OF at this academic level. Your only other example is Middlebury, a LAC, not a university, by the way. Their policy is longstanding, well known and well publicized with a lengthy Q & A related to this program prominantly posted on their web site. Middlebury’s reasons lie in the near 2/3 participation in study abroad among students (about twice the level at Wash U) leaving a ton of beds unoccupied come January. Even still, it’s a policy that regularly comes under fire.

Where is Wash U’s posting of this policy on their web site? Where is its explanation? Wash U’s refusal to post a Common Data Set and open up about admission’s data has been long under fire. This one’s a new one on me. Whitewashing this by arguing that January freshman admissions are routine is pure misinformation.