Wash U Is Distasteful!

Hindoo
Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:42:41 +0000

I very much appreciate oldolddad’s and CopterMom’s voices of experience. CopterMom–You were absolutely right in post #106. My husband and I have become so accustomed to enjoying the honors and praise heaped on our daughter at the high school level, it was a bit of a rude awakening to see her turned down for the Wash U. scholarship she applied for. … Your words brought to mind the sad-to-happy tale of my next door neighbor’s daughter a number of years back. She was absolutely brilliant, accepted everywhere she applied except for Harvard, which wait-listed her. Wash U. is where she had her heart set on going, but they offered her only a modest science-based scholarship. Other than money issues, it seemed the perfect fit for her, so her middle-class family braced themselves to take a financial beating and sent her off to St. Louis. Within a year, her talents were so obvious, she received significantly more departmental money. By junior year she had a full-ride. She ended up winning a Rhode’s Scholarship–one of two winners from Wash U. that year (zero from Harvard). Not having a crystal ball in their admissions office, Wash U. initially missed the spark that made this girl so special, but to their credit they were quick to catch on!