WashU - New Early Action plan & policy changes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicago basher mom was quick to appear in this thread

I don't even understand relevance of chicago to the thread about wash u

Seriously? Which only T20 has EA+ED1+ED2 combo?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicago basher mom was quick to appear in this thread

I don't even understand relevance of chicago to the thread about wash u

Seriously? Which only T20 has EA+ED1+ED2 combo?

Oh my god!! How will we survive knowing this? I’m absolutely devastated that private universities can do whatever the F they want

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicago basher mom was quick to appear in this thread

I don't even understand relevance of chicago to the thread about wash u

Seriously? Which only T20 has EA+ED1+ED2 combo?

yes and your obsession with chicago!

[Anonymous]

the emphasis on demonstrated interest is incredibly lame. this is gamesmanship 101

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the emphasis on demonstrated interest is incredibly lame. this is gamesmanship 101

Well, visiting the school will probably earn serious points because it isn’t on the way to anywhere. Not like signing in at the visitor center at BU when you visit like 10 other Boston schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the emphasis on demonstrated interest is incredibly lame. this is gamesmanship 101

Well, visiting the school will probably earn serious points because it isn’t on the way to anywhere. Not like signing in at the visitor center at BU when you visit like 10 other Boston schools.

My guess about demonstrated interest is that they want to encourage potential applicants to visit campus because their campus shows so well. My kids both visited schools they liked on paper, but the feel of the campus was abysmal to them. WashU has a beautiful campus in which they clearly invest a great deal of resources - it also just feels like a happy place. But as the previous poster noted, not many are in STL by chance and do a campus visit because it's convenient (which is when my kids saw Chicago, Philadelphia and DC schools). My daughter attends a school in the NE but visited a close friend at WashU, and it made her encourage her little brother to put the school on his list and try to tour it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the emphasis on demonstrated interest is incredibly lame. this is gamesmanship 101

It’s really not. Their algos are admitting ppl not coming; so they have to fix that or else they’ll be Tufts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the emphasis on demonstrated interest is incredibly lame. this is gamesmanship 101

It’s really not. Their algos are admitting ppl not coming; so they have to fix that or else they’ll be Tufts.

Tufts already gets more applicants so they're already out of luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the emphasis on demonstrated interest is incredibly lame. this is gamesmanship 101

Then it is lame for Dartmouth, Northwestern, UChicago, Rice, and others I guess...?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the emphasis on demonstrated interest is incredibly lame. this is gamesmanship 101

Then it is lame for Dartmouth, Northwestern, UChicago, Rice, and others I guess...?

It actually works really well for Rice and Northwestern. And Dartmouth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the emphasis on demonstrated interest is incredibly lame. this is gamesmanship 101

Then it is lame for Dartmouth, Northwestern, UChicago, Rice, and others I guess...?

It actually works really well for Rice and Northwestern. And Dartmouth.

And Chicago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am trying to figure out the downside of applying Early Action here? Particularly since it is now a pretty easy application? Get it done and get your response early. Probably not early enough to save you from doing other apps but early enough to know you are in somewhere if you get in.

If it’s being done to game rankings…they add EA to get more applicants. Then at some point EA applicants will be asked to switch to ED with the implication being you’re rejected if you don’t.

As an aside, my son applied to two EA schools. Both invited him to switch to ED. He didn’t. Accepted to both with giant merit scholarships (both schools don’t give merit to ED candidates).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am trying to figure out the downside of applying Early Action here? Particularly since it is now a pretty easy application? Get it done and get your response early. Probably not early enough to save you from doing other apps but early enough to know you are in somewhere if you get in.

If it’s being done to game rankings…they add EA to get more applicants. Then at some point EA applicants will be asked to switch to ED with the implication being you’re rejected if you don’t.

As an aside, my son applied to two EA schools. Both invited him to switch to ED. He didn’t. Accepted to both with giant merit scholarships (both schools don’t give merit to ED candidates).

The number of applications, yield, and acceptance or admissions rate are NOT part of the USNWR rankings. So posters who are ill informed should drop their claims that this is to game rankings. If schools want to "game" rankings, they can seek to increase the intake of first gen, increase the graduation rate of disadvantaged or Pell grant recipients (is the school good for social and economic mobility) , etc. Not that there is anything wrong with this but be informed. Look up the criteria.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am trying to figure out the downside of applying Early Action here? Particularly since it is now a pretty easy application? Get it done and get your response early. Probably not early enough to save you from doing other apps but early enough to know you are in somewhere if you get in.

If it’s being done to game rankings…they add EA to get more applicants. Then at some point EA applicants will be asked to switch to ED with the implication being you’re rejected if you don’t.

As an aside, my son applied to two EA schools. Both invited him to switch to ED. He didn’t. Accepted to both with giant merit scholarships (both schools don’t give merit to ED candidates).

I find it funny when folks here complain that certain universities "game" the rankings. Newsflash: the rankings are literally a game, with USNWR changing the rules any time they like, and schools making adjustments (or worse, fabricating data - hello Columbia...) to maintain or better their rankings. Does graduation rate carry the same weight if you are, say, at Yale where 80% of the grades are As as it does at a university without that grade inflation?

[Anonymous]

It’s to address their yield issue; and that they go to WL in mid-April.

I think it will be great!