DD was accepted at WashU!
I guess we’ll set up visits at all 3 (?) of WashU, RPI, and Rose Hulman… 3 very different schools! Not sure how to decide…
Yoo-hoo! @thshadow <:-P <:-P
Congrats!!! @thshadow
Congrats @thshadow on. Wash U too!!
I don’t know much about that school, other than I know it has a good reputation on here. Not much talk about it in New England. What type of kid goes there?
(Rich) Kids who like prestige and selective schools :)) :))
@RightCoaster and @payn4ward - (Or the ones that get merit scholarships!)
@RightCoaster I see Wash U as being in a similar category to Vanderbilt and Rice, or perhaps Tufts. The campus is lovely and it’s located on the edge of St. Louis city/county near a very large public park with numerous quality museums. It has a variety of schools within the university and no barriers to switching majors or schools (you don’t have to declare engineering from the outset). According to a recent piece in the NY Times, it boasts the most affluent student body of anyplace in the country, based on median family income of enrolled students and a relatively small % of students from the bottom quintile economically. The school is now making a greater effort to improve its socioeconomic diversity. Demonstrated interest also is said to matter a great deal with respect to admission.
Everything that @mamaedefamilia said, plus a nice student body apparently. A friend’s son visited during Accepted Student Days and announced that the students were too nice, so he enrolled at an east coast school! Data point of one…
Personally, I think she’d fit in better at Rose or maybe RPI, but DW likes prestige I believe… 
Which actually could set up some stress, TBH. I mean, it’s selfish of me to complain about it, but there must be many of us who will potentially be agonizing over decisions - even though none of them would be wrong…
Congrats on all the WashU acceptances! DW and D said the people at WashU were by far the nicest people at a school they ever met. I logged in to see if they had a FA award for D but none at this time. I guess we’ll have to wait until the end of the month to find out.
@RightCoaster congrats on NEU. I could see your son teaching everyone in London Pickleball! Or maybe he could go to some exotic location and teach all the tribes Pickleball and instead of warring with other tribes they would settle their differences with Pickleball kind of like what happened in the 20th century in the South Pacific when they got the tribes to play Cricket instead of fighting.
Ok thanks for WashU vibe. I’ve never been to St. Louis. I have not really spent any time in the mid west so I’m kind of ignorant on all that. I tend to fly over on my way coast to coast with an occasional stop to visit the mountains in Ut/co/wy
Glad you all have another " swank" place to consider 
Lol @dolemite my son probably would love to be a diplomat pickle baller!!! Ha, that was good for a great laugh, and should he choose to study over seas I’m going to duggrst carrying some pickle ball equipment.
The kid was rejected from University of Bath today. Applied to 5 universities in the UK and the lowest ranked was the only reject!
Add D to the list of kids accepted at WashU today. Of all the colleges I took D to visit, I felt it was the school that threw the most resources at and cared the most about its students. I am pleasantly surprised that they pay to fly all accepted students out for a visit. D refuses to schedule anything though until all decisions are in.
Congrats on all the other WashU acceptances and on NEU @RightCoaster.
Congrats on all the acceptances!!
D is waitlisted at WashU. She declined her place. She applied for all the scholarships and DH even took her for a visit last fall. It is not meant to be!
Congrats to all the acceptances today! Rejections and waitlists at least make the decisions clearer.
The waiting has been tough!
I echo the comment made by @Dolemite that on both a visit with my D to DC for Portfolio Day and WashU our encounters with everyone there has been consistently exceptional.
My kid has high stats/rigor, diversity, passion, etc., but so do the kids of parents on this thread who said they were not accepted to MIT. So, it is easy to see why she would be in the top pool of candidates, but I’ve no idea how they distinguish within that pool.
@nw2this: Dartboards.
I mean, even if that isn’t literally true, at some level, it kind of has to be.
Congrats on the Wash U and Northeastern acceptances!!! We visited both and they are great schools! Congrats on any other acceptances that I missed.
D '17 was waitlisted at Wash U. After learning that she didn’t get one of the big scholarships, it was already an NFW school. Still, we were a little surprised. She demonstrated interest with interviews, a visit and scholarship app. Her stats were above the 75% for her program. You just never know…
Anecdotally, the only admits from her school were ED, but the school is large enough that this is probably not true.
Onward and upward…
@Dave_N – ok that’s new CC terminology. What does NFW mean? I worked out my own abbreviation letters in my head and it’s hilarious but probably not what it really means? :))