Hypothetical question regarding waitlisted candidates

sacchi
Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:21:36 +0000

My guess is that a good percentage of the waitlisted applicants would have been accepted had they applied ED. There is typically an admissions advantage for ED, for “in range” applicants, e.g. ED applicants with 2200+ SAT will be likelier to be accepted, but it won’t do much for the <1800 SAT applicant. Clearly, waitlisted candidates have “in range” stats, and hence would likely benefit from ED.

WashU seems to care about having students who love being there, and applying ED is a great sign of love.

Perhaps some enterprising person could do an analysis of the RD and ED accepted students thread… Although even that would be not too informative, because of the self-selecting nature of who posts their stats on CC.