<p>ok i wanted to know how many internationals have been waitlisted at WUStL…count me for one</p>
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<li>tox!c</li>
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<p>another thing: does anyone has been rejected by WUStl??? i can hardly find someone who has been rejected!!! its so very queer</p>
<p>u should have chosen a different topic.
WUSTL: REJECTED ANYONE???</p>
<p>This looks more logical.
And for the changed topic, definitely count me on.</p>
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<li>tox!c</li>
<li>aktiv8d</li>
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<p>wustl = waitlisting uni of st. louis</p>
<p>WUSTL is one of the few unis that waitlist more students than reject them</p>
<p>why does wustl waitlist such a large no of stds??? any clues???</p>
<p>i read somewhere on CC that they overenrolled last year. this year’s bucketloads of waitlistings may have something to do with it. i also did not notice any internationals who asked for aid getting accepted either so that may have been a factor as well.</p>
<p>oh!
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<p>Actually WUSTL has been following this policy for a while now. They do this because they have a very low yield rate and they end up taking many students from the waitlist. I also read somewhere this policy helps maintain their high ranking. Not sure though how exactly it does that.</p>
<p>^yeah wustl has a bit of a reputation for waitlisting that stretches back before this year. a slight correction to my last post - the overenrollment happened two years back (to the class who are now sophomores). while wustl has been waitlisting for a while, the overenrollment in the class of 2012 means that the school’s resources (eg. housing) are being stretched and its likely that the adcoms kept that in mind. </p>
<p>The yield rate explanation is probably the most plausible one though as wustl’s yield rate is very low - somewhere around 30%. wustl tries to increase its yield rate as the yield rate is a factor in the us news rankings. the higher the yield rate the better it is for the uni in the rankings.</p>
<p>the usn rankings is so skewed</p>
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<li>tox!c</li>
<li>aktiv8d</li>
<li>boho_girl</li>
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<p>(of course, asked for MASSIVE aid, and I didn’t aply to scholarships either :o because by the time I remembered about them, it was already pretty late to start writing essays. ah, well…)</p>
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<li>tox!c</li>
<li>aktiv8d</li>
<li>boho_girl</li>
<li>karkip</li>
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<p>Wait list doesn’t mean acceptance, just a probability of it; yield don’t change even if there is no wait list or the wait list is about twenty thousand. Yield counts those that enrolled after acceptance (ED and RD + January Program). Last year only two internationals were taken from the wait list, the year before, none.</p>
<p>^yes you are right about the yield rate, but the kids who get accepted into other unis usually take their names out of the waitlist. At the end those still on the waitlist are more likey to enroll thus increasing the yield rate.</p>
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<li>tox!c</li>
<li>aktiv8d</li>
<li>boho_girl</li>
<li>karkip</li>
<li>rand0m</li>
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<p>Did you guys all ask for need-base financial aid? I did.</p>
<p>i did as well.</p>
<p>me me…no need base FA</p>