WashU - New Early Action plan & policy changes
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Anonymous
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https://admissions.washu.edu/whats-new-at-washu/
I wonder why they’re offering EA now. Thoughts? |
Anonymous
Pumping up the application numbers, lowering the acceptance rate. |
Anonymous
| Early Action, removing an essay, test optional…Northeastern 2.0 |
Anonymous
Wow, so WashU is going this desperate route now? They also admit 2/3 of their class in the ED rounds. |
Anonymous
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my kid got rejected so there is that hi stats average joe i guess?
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Anonymous
Because it’s existentially important, or close to it, for Wash U to hold on to T20 status. |
Anonymous
| Expect to see WashU email asking applicants to convert EA applications to ED2 applications. |
Anonymous
| Is it possible they want the Ivy ED applicants (all besides Princeton, Yale and Harvard) to also apply to WashU EA...thinking is if they are deferred or rejected, maybe a sure thing at WashU starts looking a lot more interesting vs. doing all the RD apps for the other Ivy schools? |
Anonymous
| Does applying early action help you if you show interest but are unwilling to convert to EDII? OR is it better to just go RD because refusing to go EDII is actually a negative signal? Wondering if there is some sense of this from other schools that offer both EA and EDII? |
Anonymous
| This is the Chicago model. Application number, yield rate, acceptance rate all in play. |
Anonymous
Except Chicago always had EA and WashU will never compare academically |
Anonymous
| Something is clearly going on behind the scenes, but I'm not an insider so I can't shed any light. |
Anonymous
| It allows for an effective ED3…. |
Anonymous
Exactly. Which is ED3…. |
Anonymous
Why should students in the high school class of 2030 care which schools “always had” EA? Or ED? Or EDII? Every year is a new playing field. And academics have nothing to do with this conversation, which is about admissions policy. |