was it worth it to apply? merit scholarhips?

fallenchemist
Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:25:12 +0000

hopefully - A more positive suggestion I can make would be attend a school that, while obviously not your first choice since WUSTL holds that honor, is a solid program academically with decent art programs to start out with. If you can show WUSTL that you can get great grades at a strong, 4 year college elsewhere, you can try to then transfer in. It is still a long shot, but I really will be shocked if your stats will get you in right now. 1800 is very low for WUSTL, and while the improvement in your grades is great, I just don’t think you appreciate the strength of the applicant pool you are up against. Johnson181 talked about it, but let me put it another way. Why should WUSTL give you more credit for improving your grades than they give a student that made excellent grades all 4 years of high school? And let’s assume that student has 2200+ SAT scores. Now imagine there are some 15,000 or so of these students for about 1500 slots at WUSTL. I think you can see now why your chances just are not that good.

So just to be clear, transferring into WUSTL is no picnic either, even if you got straight A’s at a decent school. Sometimes there just aren’t any openings, and when there are the competition is at least as fierce as for freshman admittance. I understand this is all very discouraging for you.

But don’t, don’t don’t tie up success in your future with going to WUSTL. It is a wonderful place, but as jkeil says there are thousands of schools and out of those, there are at least a few dozen that would fit you well. Open up your thinking and find these fast. It is getting late in the game, too late already for many of them.

Edit - I overlapped with your last post, so some repetition there. But I definitely wouldn’t call your application a waste of money. If you hadn’t tried, you would always wonder. No sense in that. Better to get denied than not try at all, absolutely.