Wash U Is Distasteful!

zooper1
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:17:43 +0000

I hope I don’t get blasted here and this in not meant to disparage Wash U but these are our very limited impressions of who receives scholarships to the school. We had two students over the last couple of years apply for the merit scholarships and receive them. Both are minority students, neither were athletes and one had below a 1300 SAT score. The student with the low score received a full ride. It was felt by this student that the hook was being the first in the family to go to college. I don’t have a problem with this. The family, despite not having gone to college, lives in an upper middle class neighborhood. So please don’t think that you have to be immensely bright to get a scholarship here. Wash U definitely looks at other factors. Scholarship giving will always be a mystery, so why waste time speculating?