<p>I am with wbwa and I didn’t just look at WestonHS, I looked at few more HS in that thread and <em>all</em> of them show very few rejects but lots of waitlists for WashU while for other colleges, it’s more like what you’d expect–way more rejects/admits than waitlists. When WashU says they waitlisted just 1000 people (around the same ballpark as many other peers), I find it highly suspicious because they would mean the reject:waitlist ratio is about 15:1 but those scattergram seems to be closer to the other way around instead. Are those scattergrams just somehow wacky and not representative for WashU but not other colleges? Even the decision threads on CC show the same thing–there have been just way more waitlists for WashU than others; yet WashU says the size of their waitlist is not vastly different from other. How does one reconcile this? Somehow the WashU rejects are just more inclined to lie and say they have been waitlisted? </p>
<p>Another stats I found unique about WashU is its super-high SAT range. Those scores are quite remarkable and unusual for a school with rather low yield. Typically, a school with similar yield would expect a 40-60 pt drop between the admits and enrollees. But the score is so high for WashU enrollees that if you add the 40-60 pts, WashU admits may actually have higher score than Harvard’s. According to the official ACT site, the students that sent their scores to WashU have comparable score distribution to those that sent their scores to other top-20 peers yet in the published stats, WashU says they have ~80% of students with >30 while other peers have about 60%-70% with that score range. Again, one would wonder how that happened? Did they superscore ACT?</p>
<p>I have no doubt WashU offers great academics and environment. But I’d really like them to start being transparent about their admission data/practice.</p>