Wash u Ed

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lol not jealous. I’m an alumni and the whole thing seems super sketchy to me. I wouldn’t send my kid to school in Missouri anyway.

I am an alumnus and I know Wash U is in Clayton and I also know there is tons of crime right outside campus. I also meant I wouldn’t send my kid to Missouri bc of the political issues not bc I think Wash U is in the middle of nowhere. I’ll also note that Blueberry Hill is still there and the Rat isn’t. Anything else? And yes 30 years ago Wash U was need aware and had a ton of students from this area. These are different times and it claims to be much more selective. I didn’t think I would still be able to get in now but it looks like any full pay kid will.

I don't believe that you are an alumnus. If you were, you would know that even 30 years ago, Wash U was admitting a ton of students from the mid-atlantic (I had several friends who went to the various Montgomery County high schools). You also would know that Wash U is in a great part of town with a beautiful campus, it's not "just Missouri". I wouldn't want to live there now (although I have friends who do), but it was a good place to go to school.

[Anonymous]

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I am an alumnus and I know Wash U is in Clayton and I also know there is tons of crime right outside campus. I also meant I wouldn’t send my kid to Missouri bc of the political issues not bc I think Wash U is in the middle of nowhere. I’ll also note that Blueberry Hill is still there and the Rat isn’t. Anything else? And yes 30 years ago Wash U was need aware and had a ton of students from this area. These are different times and it claims to be much more selective. I didn’t think I would still be able to get in now but it looks like any full pay kid will.

[Anonymous]

I have no dog on this fight but sure seems someone is motivated by sour grapes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
I am an alumnus and I know Wash U is in Clayton and I also know there is tons of crime right outside campus. I also meant I wouldn’t send my kid to Missouri bc of the political issues not bc I think Wash U is in the middle of nowhere. I’ll also note that Blueberry Hill is still there and the Rat isn’t. Anything else? And yes 30 years ago Wash U was need aware and had a ton of students from this area. These are different times and it claims to be much more selective. I didn’t think I would still be able to get in now but it looks like any full pay kid will.

What you say doesn’t prove you’re an alum. If you were, were you kicked out from the Brown school of social work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have no dog on this fight but sure seems someone is motivated by sour grapes.

+1

[Anonymous]

I worked for a company headquartered in Missouri. General lack of respect for Wash U. Massive respect for Mizzou. Seemed odd to me. It’s like Houston denouncing Rice, which they would never do, quite the opposite, Houston LOVES Rice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP WUSTL must have made an agreement with some private schools as they took students well outside the top 25%.

Let me guess. You’re a big believer in conspiracy theories

[Anonymous]

Kicked out? No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I worked for a company headquartered in Missouri. General lack of respect for Wash U. Massive respect for Mizzou. Seemed odd to me. It’s like Houston denouncing Rice, which they would never do, quite the opposite, Houston LOVES Rice.

Your company isn't Missouri though, this analogy is poor

[Anonymous]

Washu is a bit easier this year due to ranking drop etc. At the info session, their combined ED1and ED2 acceptance rate was 30%. Compared to say Emory at 20%.

[Anonymous]

What schools received a 100% acceptance rate to WashU? Name them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is up with them taking 100% of applicants from certain schools? And we r not talking about all very strong students.

I’m a different alum.

What were the proposed majors of the kids who applied from the lucky schools?

My impression, from looking at the Niche scattergrams that see if you get a log-in, is that Wash. U., Case Western and probably a lot of other T10 through T40 schools have had much higher acceptance rates for humanities majors than for STEM and business majors.

What might have happened this year is that counselors at some schools noticed the same pattern, got smart and had the students with weaker stats apply as humanities or social sciences majors.

I think another factor is that Wash. U. has seemed like a school that cared more about SATs and ACTs than about grades. If that’s true, maybe some schools’ counselors noticed that and sent Wash. U. the students with high SATs, reasonably rigorous classes and mediocre GPAs.

Regardless, Wash. U. is a great, kind, serious school that’s trying to get by in a tough world, and I think the bashing it’s getting here is as silly as the bashing aimed at Columbia, UChicago and Oberlin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is up with them taking 100% of applicants from certain schools? And we r not talking about all very strong students.

I’m a different alum.

What were the proposed majors of the kids who applied from the lucky schools?

My impression, from looking at the Niche scattergrams that see if you get a log-in, is that Wash. U., Case Western and probably a lot of other T10 through T40 schools have had much higher acceptance rates for humanities majors than for STEM and business majors.

What might have happened this year is that counselors at some schools noticed the same pattern, got smart and had the students with weaker stats apply as humanities or social sciences majors.

I think another factor is that Wash. U. has seemed like a school that cared more about SATs and ACTs than about grades. If that’s true, maybe some schools’ counselors noticed that and sent Wash. U. the students with high SATs, reasonably rigorous classes and mediocre GPAs.

Regardless, Wash. U. is a great, kind, serious school that’s trying to get by in a tough world, and I think the bashing it’s getting here is as silly as the bashing aimed at Columbia, UChicago and Oberlin.

No offense, but is asinine to think that someone with "mediocre" grades is getting into WashU. They have more applicants than seats. They don't need to accept a kid with mediocre grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is up with them taking 100% of applicants from certain schools? And we r not talking about all very strong students.

I’m a different alum.

What were the proposed majors of the kids who applied from the lucky schools?

My impression, from looking at the Niche scattergrams that see if you get a log-in, is that Wash. U., Case Western and probably a lot of other T10 through T40 schools have had much higher acceptance rates for humanities majors than for STEM and business majors.

What might have happened this year is that counselors at some schools noticed the same pattern, got smart and had the students with weaker stats apply as humanities or social sciences majors.

I think another factor is that Wash. U. has seemed like a school that cared more about SATs and ACTs than about grades. If that’s true, maybe some schools’ counselors noticed that and sent Wash. U. the students with high SATs, reasonably rigorous classes and mediocre GPAs.

Regardless, Wash. U. is a great, kind, serious school that’s trying to get by in a tough world, and I think the bashing it’s getting here is as silly as the bashing aimed at Columbia, UChicago and Oberlin.

No offense, but is asinine to think that someone with "mediocre" grades is getting into WashU. They have more applicants than seats. They don't need to accept a kid with mediocre grades.

But if it’s true that some high schools got applicants outside of the top quarter into Wash. U., that could be part of the explanation.

Maybe those students have, say, 3.7 GPAs and look fine in WUSTL’s admissions scattergrams but are in the second quarter in their school rankings.

Plenty of students in the second quarter at tough high schools are wonderful students. There’s no reason to shun them.

[Anonymous]

The school is declining that's why.