WashU is the new HYP

[Anonymous]

No one wants to live in STL. The NE schools hold a lot of sway with faculty because of their close proximity to Boston, NYC, Philly, and DC. In those cities and their environs, there lies a horde of scholarly, business, cultural, and government resources and headline personalities, which STL can not easily replicate. By comparison, WashU sits in a cultural and professional wasteland.

[Anonymous]

Lmao

😭😭😭

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wild take: with an incredible 65% endowment gain, WashU is well positioned to surpass most Ivies and T15s in no time.

Now it sits on a massive $15 billion warchest and newly gained national and global renown to steal Nobel-winning professors from hypsm and poorer, less well-endowed schools like columbia, duke, and chicago, berkeley, and even caltech, where the students are truly suffering from the workload and LA's pollution.

WashU's pristine campus and upper-class student body will be a massive draw to top-notch applicants from all over the world.

It will be a T10 in 3-5 years with schools like Duke and Penn decline in prestige and fall outside the T10 across all rankings. I expect WashU to become a T5 school in 10 years' time, especially with the resurgence of St. Louis as the next great American city, and take Yale's place so it becomes HWP.

Why? Yale is a massively overrated school like Chicago with an incredibly weak STEM program, a lackluster business school, and an average medical school. Not to mention Princeton without any professional schools... Stanford has too many athletes and soon there will be a second dot com boom, trashing the silicon valley and its reputation, along with MIT. Meanwhile, Penn and Columbia are at best middling ivies and Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth are barely on the level of HYP, or WashU in 10 years' time.

JHU is just another WashU wannabe but lacks the elite flair and laid-back vibes, not to mention Northwestern and Chicago, both of which are located in a declining city where the population is fleeing in droves. Other T15s like Vandy and Rice are no match for WashU's endowment and reputation.

Go Bears!

Project much? Your entire post is based on your projections and empty promises... I have to say "St. Louis as the next great American city" made me chuckle. LOL. Go do your homework kid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too bad STL is a sh1thole and WashU grads are nutters.

Look, you can disagree with the original poster and not be such a jerk. My kid goes there and I can assure you that many who graduate from there are bright, articulate, sane people with great futures ahead of them (i.e., not nutters). And like any city, STL has good parts and bad.

Why do you feel compelled to be so unkind in your response?

Because I had to endure living there *and* working with WashU grads for too long.

Just seeing the name makes me want to hurl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too bad STL is a sh1thole and WashU grads are nutters.

Look, you can disagree with the original poster and not be such a jerk. My kid goes there and I can assure you that many who graduate from there are bright, articulate, sane people with great futures ahead of them (i.e., not nutters). And like any city, STL has good parts and bad.

Why do you feel compelled to be so unkind in your response?

Fair game when posters start threads like this though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too bad STL is a sh1thole and WashU grads are nutters.

Look, you can disagree with the original poster and not be such a jerk. My kid goes there and I can assure you that many who graduate from there are bright, articulate, sane people with great futures ahead of them (i.e., not nutters). And like any city, STL has good parts and bad.

Why do you feel compelled to be so unkind in your response?

Fair game when posters start threads like this though.

Right? Such a DB post.

“upper-class student body”

WTAF?

[Anonymous]

Serious question for OP and OP's basement-dwelling friends:

Did College Confidential permanently ban you / your IP address? And that's why you've decided to attempt takeover of this mom site?

[Anonymous]

WashU boosterism at its finest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Epic troll post. Congratulations!

+1. Though St. Louis does have some nice architecture, we'll be waiting until the next millennium for it to emerge as the "next great American city."

Unless rising sea levels manage to submerge the two coasts, then we might see St Louis becoming the “next great American city”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too bad STL is a sh1thole and WashU grads are nutters.

Look, you can disagree with the original poster and not be such a jerk. My kid goes there and I can assure you that many who graduate from there are bright, articulate, sane people with great futures ahead of them (i.e., not nutters). And like any city, STL has good parts and bad.

Why do you feel compelled to be so unkind in your response?

Fair game when posters start threads like this though.

+1. If you look at the WashU trolling on some other threads, I think this is entirely fair game. That’s what you get from non-stop tooting your own horns and bashing other schools without good reason.

[Anonymous]

Sad.

[Anonymous]

What a lot of people seem to be missing is that the OP is making fun of Wash U boosterism, not endorsing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a lot of people seem to be missing is that the OP is making fun of Wash U boosterism, not endorsing it.

I thought it was a modestly clever send-up of the type of boosterism so common on this forum from people with ties to a handful of schools like Chicago, Penn, Duke and Washington U.

It would be like saying that Penn is poised to overtake HYPSM under a five-year plan, pursuant to which the university is renamed "Wharton University" and the non-business programs are relocated to Chester, PA and Camden, NJ.

[Anonymous]

OMG WHO CARES

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too bad STL is a sh1thole and WashU grads are nutters.

Look, you can disagree with the original poster and not be such a jerk. My kid goes there and I can assure you that many who graduate from there are bright, articulate, sane people with great futures ahead of them (i.e., not nutters). And like any city, STL has good parts and bad.

Why do you feel compelled to be so unkind in your response?

Fair game when posters start threads like this though.

+1. If you look at the WashU trolling on some other threads, I think this is entirely fair game. That’s what you get from non-stop tooting your own horns and bashing other schools without good reason.

If WashU does its business in STL and no booster toots its own horns, does WashU even exist?