<p>I’ve heard from many places that WashU has a pretty significant bias against RD applicants, as they like to see interested applicants apply ED. Is it really much harder to get in in the RD round than the ED round? Could anyone supply some stats?</p>
<p>It is definitely harder to get in RD than ED.
At our high school, over the last three years, the difference among accepted applicants was:
for GPA - ED 3.57 avg vs. RD 3.84 avg
SATs - ED 1450 avg vs. RD 1500 avg</p>
<p>Are you serious, the average accepted for ED was below 3.6? Is your curriculum really rigorous or what’s the deal? That seems pretty low for WUSTL…but that’s cool that they got in! </p>
<p>How many students actually got in in the previous years?</p>
<p>from my school the ED acceptance rate is 70% but for RD it drops to 23%</p>
<p>Yes, our school is a top public high school, and these GPAs are unweighted. Moreover, you can assume that the kids who go to WashU are among the stronger kids in the class, so they would be the ones taking significant numbers of honors and AP courses.</p>
<p>Okay. That makes more sense. </p>
<p>I’m applying RD to WashU and go to an independent school with a rigorous curriculum, but it does not offer many APs like some other private and public schools.</p>
<p>However, does anyone know how WUSTL “deals” with Native American applicants? I don’t live on a reservation, but I am an enrolled member of the Chippewa Lac du Flambeau tribe in Wisconsin. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>