Please chance an International student for WashU RD!!

Don_Quixote
Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:21:23 +0000

mosdefinitely:

Scorewise, do I stack up? I know that Wash U is what my friends call a “score-whore” school (excuse my language), and I’m worried I might be eliminated in the admissions process in the preliminary rounds!



If you get the SAT score you’re predicting you should be alright, and your APs and SAT2’s look good… tbh I went to a public high school so i’m not really familiar with how to interpret GPA’s out of 100, small class sizes, and somewhat vague ECs.

Take this with a grain of salt, but if I were an adcom looking at this info, the only real weakness I see would be the ECs. Which is probably just because you’re not being very specific with them, and it probably goes without saying that you’d write things up differently on your application, but having one EC that stands out (or that you really care about) will go much farther than having a long list of some of this, some of that… If you get my gist?

You seem to be on the right track though, I think people just aren’t responding because we’re not that sure either way - a lot may depend on your H.S… Best of luck!