Why so much WUSTL/WashU hate on DCUM?

[Anonymous]

Because I’ve spent too much time in STL (and Clayton) and worked with too many WashU grads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Beautiful campus, one of best dorms & food & professors (Source: Niche), which means a quality lifestyle for undergrad

Consistently ranked in the Top 15 National Universities and Top 20 on USNEWS until this year due to the ranking methodology changes, and good weather.

Other than the lack of laymen's prestige and the location of St. Louis (which is invalid because it's actually in Clayton), why is it looked down upon on DCUM? There seems to be a lot of misinformation being spread, like a 40% acceptance rate ED1/ED2 which is comically fake and untrue.

My Senior DC with high stats from a competitive high school got rejected ED2 but got into UVA, VT, Purdue. Kids from Midwest & West Coast are dying to get into schools like UofChicago, Northwestern, Rice, Washu, ETC, but East coast seems to dislike WashU specfically.

Lol wash u is NOWHERE near even the outermost orbit of the bolded. You flatter yourself

Rice sure but not the other two.

[Anonymous]

40 is for ED1, not ED1&2 combined. Either way 40% is high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:40 is for ED1, not ED1&2 combined. Either way 40% is high.

Did you pull this number out of your behind? If you went to the zoom webinar you would know that they said AR ≈ 26% for ED1, not across both rounds.

[Anonymous]

Because for some primal reason people need to feel superior to other people. That means confirming to themselves that their kids are the brightest, their choices are the best, that the best schools let them in, and on and on and on. So instead of just being supportive or revealing good and bad things they have learned about schools by having a child there, or having attended it themselves, they feel the need to dump on other schools to confirm that they are/have/did the “best.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:40 is for ED1, not ED1&2 combined. Either way 40% is high.

Did you pull this number out of your behind? If you went to the zoom webinar you would know that they said AR ≈ 26% for ED1, not across both rounds.

No, it’s 26% across both rounds: https://wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/wustl-cds-2022-2023.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This board is so nuts sometimes.

WashU is great.

NP. Yeah, I know a few kids at our magnet at WashU and loving it. It's a great school.

I am wondering if the "hater" is trying to dissuade applicants for next year. Always gotta wonder here.

It was tempting when my 2nd wanted to apply to highly rejective school where big sis got in. I didn't do it, (but I also didn't hold back on input about dorm complaints when people asked here).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This board is so nuts sometimes.

WashU is great.

NP. Yeah, I know a few kids at our magnet at WashU and loving it. It's a great school.

I am wondering if the "hater" is trying to dissuade applicants for next year. Always gotta wonder here.

It was tempting when my 2nd wanted to apply to highly rejective school where big sis got in. I didn't do it, (but I also didn't hold back on input about dorm complaints when people asked here).

“ highly rejective “

Love it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Beautiful campus, one of best dorms & food & professors (Source: Niche), which means a quality lifestyle for undergrad

Consistently ranked in the Top 15 National Universities and Top 20 on USNEWS until this year due to the ranking methodology changes, and good weather.

Other than the lack of laymen's prestige and the location of St. Louis (which is invalid because it's actually in Clayton), why is it looked down upon on DCUM? There seems to be a lot of misinformation being spread, like a 40% acceptance rate ED1/ED2 which is comically fake and untrue.

My Senior DC with high stats from a competitive high school got rejected ED2 but got into UVA, VT, Purdue. Kids from Midwest & West Coast are dying to get into schools like UofChicago, Northwestern, Rice, Washu, ETC, but East coast seems to dislike WashU specfically.

I don’t think it really gets nearly as much hate as Northeastern, UChicago or the Colleges That Change Lives.

To the extent that it gets some hate, that’s because some people here are hateful and crazy, and we aren’t reporting trolls quickly enough.

[Anonymous]

No one is dying to go to college in St Louis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WashU is for kids who can’t get into Ivies. Washed Up.

It’s hard to imagine being an adult who has experiences decades of life and still thinking this way.

[Anonymous]

People need to recognize that sometimes, the bizarre posts that sound like a 15-year bratty high school kid dunking on school X, Y, or Z are because they are...there are a lot of kids on this board; also, some people get really upset when their child is rejected from a school they thought they should have gotten into...all of a sudden, that school is awful.

[Anonymous]

I still think it is some unhinged mother whose kid got rejected and/or they knew someone else who got in that can't let the grudge go. I mean, why else would you chime in how one of the top schools in the country sucks?

The same unhinged person says the same thing about UChicago.

[Anonymous]

Hey maybe they're trying to get their kid off the wait list. WashU is a great school. But everyone finds their own fit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WashU is for kids who can’t get into Ivies. Washed Up.

This is ridiculous. Few get into ivies. Those that don’t go to wash u which I guess brings up wash u’s average gpa and test score for the student body. The applicant being denied an ivy spot isn’t dumber - it’s the same applicant. I’d love for my kid to get into any school where lots of highly qualified kids go when they don’t get into an ivy. You meant this as an insult but it isn’t. Esp since ivies decline kids who are more qualified or equally qualified as those they admitted.