<p>DECISION: Accepted
APPLIED FOR FINANCIAL AID: Yes
VISITED: Yes
INTERVIEWED: No. Wasn’t offered to me.
COLLEGE: Arts & Sciences
UNWEIGHTED GPA: UW not given. 4.31 cumulative and weighted at the end of 7th, 4.59 weighted for 7th semester alone.
CLASS RANK: Not given at my school, but I heard accidentally from somebody in college counseling that I’m 5th out of ~360.
SAT1/ACT: 700 Math / 800 Verbal. Didn’t take ACT.
SAT2: 800 Biology-M, 760 Math IIC, 760 Math IC, 730 Writing.</p>
<p>And sempitern… all I have to say is GROW UP. I wish you the best, but seriously… you may have learned everything in school that’ll get you good grades and acclaim, but what you can’t learn at school is how to accept things with graciousness. I’d suggest focusing on that instead of trying to rip on the school. And to everyone else who is trying to compare a waitlist at Wash U to an acceptance at another school… don’t. It might make you feel better, but it’s generally not polite to try to drag the joy of others through the mud by trying to trump that person’s success. Wash U is not MIT, Caltech, or Stanford. And it’s not one of the ivies. We know that. I know it’s already been posted by somebody else before me, but some people seem not to be heeding the advice posted there. So let me summarize: stop being rude, even if you are disappointed.</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone else who got accepted, and best of luck to those on the waitlist… let them know you want in and that they made a mistake in the first round. You do have the power to turn around that status.</p>
<p>DECISION … waitlist! what a surprise!
APPLIED FOR FINANCIAL AID: uhh… i think so? i left my mom in charge of that, gave her a list of all the stuff they needed and told her to send it. prob would not have gotten any anyways.
VISITED: No
INTERVIEWED: Yes (it was my worst interviewing experience, the woman was my parents’ age, she went there so long ago, didn’t know anything about the school, asked me two of the same questions twice)
COLLEGE: Arts & Sciences
UNWEIGHTED GPA 3.72
CLASS RANK top 10%
SAT1/ACT: 700V/730M, 34ACT
SAT2: 750 Writing, 710 bio, 760 iic</p>
<p>DECISION: Waitlisted
APPLIED FOR FINANCIAL AID: Yes
VISITED: No
INTERVIEWED: No
LEGACY: No
COLLEGE: Arts & Sciences
WEIGHTED GPA: 4.68
CLASS RANK: 14 of 387 beginning of year, 11 of 388 midyear
SAT1/ACT: 750 v, 690 m
SAT2: 770 writing, 760 world history, 690 math ic</p>
<p>Decision: accepted
Applied for FA: no
Visited: no
Interviewed: no
College: Arts and Sciences
Unweighted GPA: not really sure…4.0, 3.95 ish? weighted = 4.195
Class Rank: At least top 4 %
SAT I: 800V, 710M
SAT II: Spanish 740, IIC 700, IC 710, US History 780, Writing 800, Literature 780</p>
<p>First thought: Hooray for affirmative action !!! (sarcasm…) Or maybe they don’t think I’m interested enough? Whatever, we started contacting each other during sophomore year. But still, it’s always easier (for me) to blame colleges for being racist.</p>
<p>Second thought: Is this just their nice way of rejecting everyone, by waitlisting them?</p>
<p>DECISION:…Waitlisted</p>
<p>APPLIED FOR FINANCIAL AID:…no</p>
<p>VISITED:…no</p>
<p>INTERVIEWED:…no</p>
<p>COLLEGE:…Olin</p>
<p>UNWEIGHTED GPA:…4.0 </p>
<p>CLASS RANK:…10/615</p>
<p>SAT1:…800M 790V</p>
<p>SAT2:…800, 800, 780</p>
<p>oh well…I really shouldn’t be this mad since I don’t really want to go to WashU anyway.</p>
<p>A weighted GPA puts advanced classes (or APs, or whatever) on a higher scale (typically 5.0) to reflect the more difficult nature of getting a good grade in the class. So if you did okay on five AP classes, your weighted GPA could be a 4.0, but unweighted it would be less impressive.</p>
<p>DECISION…accepted ED
APPLIED FOR FINANCIAL AID…yes
VISITED…yes
INTERVIEWED…yes
COLLEGE…artsci
UNWEIGHTED GPA…3.97
CLASS RANK…no rankings
SAT1/ACT…770 V/800 M
SAT2…800 2c/790 us history/780 bio/710 writing</p>
<p>DECISION: Accepted! I hadn’t expected them to mail decisions so early; it was certainly a pleasant surprise after a full week of quarter exams.
APPLIED FOR FINANCIAL AID Yes, but no luck. I was really hoping for some sort of merit scholarship, but looks like Wash U isn’t as generous with that as I’d hoped.
VISITED: Yes - and it certainly is beautiful!
INTERVIEWED: I think so, though I don’t really remember… I sent my application out in October, so it’s been quite a while.
COLLEGE: Arts and Sciences; if I end up going (currently having a hard time trying to decide between it, Williams, Duke, and Cornell), I’ll definitely be majoring in biology, considering a double major in English.
GPA: 4.2 on a weighted scale. Don’t know what it is unweighted, sorry.
CLASS RANK: School doesn’t rank.
SAT I: 1520 - 780 V, 740 M
SAT II: 800 Writing, 780 Biology-E, 760 Math I-C</p>