<p>What is the typical WashU student like? How do they contribute to the campus?</p>
<p>As a current student, I can say there is no typical WashU student. Students here come from all sorts of backgrounds and have all sorts of different interests, talents, academic strengths, athletic strengths, personalities, extracurricular experience, and work experience.</p>
<p>In short, there are so many ways to answer your question that I’d be here for a long time trying to explain.</p>
<p>I guess one trait that most of us share is that we, for the most part, are actively invovled in activities.</p>
<p>Mostly, really nice students who, for the most part, are very much involved in extra curricular activities.</p>
<p>After reading those responses I wanted to ask how segregated students are by EC’s. Do, say, soccer players tend to circle around the team or writers for the newspaper hang out with just those people? I’m wondering b/c i’ve see a few schools that are like that. I happen to have different interests than a lot of my friends have, and I like it like that. I do realize that similar interests/personalities make ppl like each other more.</p>
<p>Sorry, I hope this makes sense!</p>
<p>so MISMOLLY are you saying that extracurricular activities is a huge fact for acceptance in W.U.?</p>
<p>purplerin,</p>
<p>People don’t merely hang with people who are a part of their EC’s. I think varsity players hang around each other more because they practice a lot and develop closer bonds naturally; however, people that work with the newspaper hang out with people who do other things as well. In fact, I work with WUTV and I don’t generally hang out with other people that do tv. Most of my closest friends are people that don’t do any of the other things that I do. I think this is true for a lot of WU students. Their friends are determined by their activities.</p>