Showing interest... (yield protection?)

falselife
Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:34:26 +0000

Thank you for your post! Our school does have visitors like that, so I’ll definitely attend those meetings.

I didn’t mean to be arrogant or imply that I couldn’t be rejected for other reasons; I certainly don’t think Wash. U is in any way to be taken for granted. But I do know that for some reason they tend to reject students with higher quantitative measures, at least.

Our school keeps detailed statistics for the past five years of all of our students who have applied to Wash. U, with their GPA/SAT/SATII/recruitment status etc. I have seen these lists and can say for sure that students with the very highest scores were waitlisted almost half the time, while those with slightly lower scores were almost always accepted. If it’s not because of the ranking, I have no clue why this would be.