BREAKING: WashU is now need blind
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Anonymous
| Wonder if this is related to https://source.wustl.edu/2021/09/washington-university-managed-endowment-pool-generates-record-65-return/ |
Anonymous
| That doesn't mean they are going to improve the amount of aid they give. WUSTL is super stingy with aid for lower income students. |
Anonymous
Just like every non-Ivy school. Where did you and your spouse and kids go to college? |
Anonymous
Stanford and MIT are not. They beat most of the ivies in cross-admits except Harvard or Yale. Then there's Caltech competing with Princeton and Columbia, followed by another drop-off in student caliber at Duke and Chicago where they have to compete for kids from places like UPenn (and usually loses to the latter) and Dartmouth. Northwestern, JHU and WashU are the true schools for ivy rejects. |
Anonymous
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The quotes I’ve seen focus on “need blind” and they say they’re going to increase funding for financial aid, but I haven’t seen a commitment to “meet full need.”
At the end of the day, affluent students are more likely to be granted admission to these highly competitive schools as a result of advantages that they have that result in higher grades/test scores/etc. The cynic in me thinks they’ve run the numbers and figured out that the school is competitive enough now that they can admit without consideration of ability to pay and it is not likely to substantially change their financial picture. By not committing to meet full need, they aren’t taking a risk. If they over-admit poor kids, they just don’t give them all they need to attend, and they don’t show up. One thing most if these “need blind” schools don’t talk about is that the policy usually doesn’t apply to the wait list. |
Anonymous
Where did you, your spouse, and your kids go to college? |
Anonymous
OMG. Go away. 95% of Ivy applicants are not admitted, and most are smart, high-stats, hard working kids who go to great schools. They are not “rejects.” |
Anonymous
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I had several siblings who went to WashU in the 80’s and they were each given a free ride — my parents had no money. Since when did WashU stop offering generous financial aid packages?
Ps. None of my siblings applied to Ivies so they were not Ivy rejects. |
Anonymous
| WashU boosters are the most hilarious. What is it with all those people who went to midwestern schools (Northwestern, WashU, UChicago) that they have to constantly blow their own horns for attention on DCUM? Didn't someone just post a BREAKING news thread about Northwestern a few days ago? |
Anonymous
Princeton. Husband went to Dartmouth. Kids are at Yale and Columbia. I was originally from St. Louis so I know it pretty well. |
Anonymous
Ohhh, your husband went to Dartmouth. That explains so much. |
Anonymous
An imbecilic take, but your premise is flawed on a number of different fronts to begin with. WashU isn’t even at the level of Northwestern or JHU. Funny how you sneak Dartmouth in there — and Duke, for that matter. And who on earth is choosing Caltech over Princeton/Columbia? |
Anonymous
| Students who want to work in SV. |
Anonymous
I'm sure Cornell has Ivy rejects in it. |
Anonymous
| There are still competitive colleges that are NOT need blind in admissions?! |