Stanford Early Notication, Waitlisted by Wash U!

Sam_Lee
Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:03:26 +0000

Talk is cheap. Need real data to make valid conclusions. Rather than make accusations against the University, just wait a week or so, get some real numbers and substantiate (or refute) the assumptions.



Aardvark,

WashU never make waitlist data for last year or the year before…etc available. How does “waiting a week or so” help?

If published data are available, there obviously wouldn’t be any “discussion” here. But thanks to WashU, they aren’t. We are therefore making an educated guess based on these limited data. And the “logical guess” is WashU’s waitilist pool is unusually large. To guess otherwise is to completely disregard the data, albeit limited, we’ve seen.

I am not “making accusations against the University”. I have said WashU’s strategy (which is not proven beyond any doubt for WashU fans but for others, it’s already proven beyond “reasonable doubt”. LOL) is smart and different. I haven’t made any moral judgement on this. So why are you so sensitive about it? Looks like you are one of those that think no school should play the game in such way. Is that why you keep telling people to remain neutral (sorry, with such kind of partial data–no reject and bunch of waitlists so far; it’s hard not to make a guess) until we have all data?