How was the finalist weekend

AsianGinger
Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:37:17 +0000

(note: I was an Ervin finalist, and I don’t know too much about what the other scholarship finalists did)

It was a lot of fun! The interview is a very, very small part of it. Mine was probably only 15-20 minutes (though I think most were about half an hour). We had a lot of free time to attend classes, go to the loop, explore campus, go to the art museum, hang out in the DUC, etc. We got to be very independent.

One thing I will say is that the food was amazing. I was expecting those pre-packaged sandwich-cookie-fruit lunches every day, but (though we had that once) mostly we had huge buffet-style meals with lots of hot food. Every breakfast had pancakes, bacon, sausage, eggs, etc. I was pleasantly surprised :P

The group activities were very geared toward selling Wash U to the RD students. We saw a variety show, a film festival, bowling/karaoke, etc. I think it made several students choose Wash U as their first choice who weren’t previously considering it as strongly. We also had a lot of activities/dinners with the current scholars to get to know them and ask questions about the program.

It was a great weekend, but I’m pretty sure every single one of us was absolutely exhausted by the end. There wasn’t much time leftover for sleeping. Also, if you’re upset that you didn’t get to go, I wouldn’t worry about it too much because I’m sure that multicultural celebration weekend, pre-orientations, orientation, and the first forty will be just as much fun.