WashU out?
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Anonymous
to get a rise out of you, obviously |
Anonymous
Why did you feel the need to open a thread that was a year old? |
Anonymous
\ Seriously, I have twins who are waiting for decisions from WashU and I almost asked them whether they got in. This is from 2025 people! |
Anonymous
This. Exact same for my fcps very high stats kids with national level awards. Significant grade deflation |
Anonymous
I like that they are not handing over an easy A like Harvard. This reputation is well known and highly respected--and bodes well for their graduates when seeking employment or PhD/med school. |
Anonymous
I have never heard this before. I am bummed to hear this as I don't think my burned out kid wants to go to a grade-deflationary school... |
Anonymous
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I warned my ds about the grade deflation but he wanted to ED anyway (got in, v happy). He was accepted to A&S, thinking of transferring into or double majoring in Olin. Friends are telling him he shouldn't worry - grade deflation is worst for the pre-med/STEM courses. He's a very strong math student.
I know this is an old thread, but the difference in stats for the kids from our school who apply early to T10 vs WashU is very minimal - and the kids who get into WashU ED2 have very high stats. Our school has so many legacies and big donors applying into HYP+ that is they are highly unlikely for almost every other kid, whereas we don't have many (or any) legacies to WashU, NU, Rice, etc |
Anonymous
I wouldn't say well below. The ED WashU kids are a little above what UVA ED takes from our private and similar to what UChicago takes ED, in other words bottom of the top 10% or top of the next decile, 1450-1510, not quite the top-5%-rigor of the ivy admits but plenty of rigor. The WashURD acceptances are almost always ivy material (top-5% rigor as well as rank, 1530+), tend to have at least one ivy or T10 RD but sometimes washu is the best one they get |
Anonymous
Please. The WashU ED admits are very well below UChicago and UVA ED admits. I'm talking 3.4-3.6 GPA and 1250-1400 SAT. |
Anonymous
| ^^ from our private |
Anonymous
Ignore PP. If their kid got truly low grades, ie below a 3.3, they were significantly lacking in intelligence or discipline compared to 75% of WashU students. WashU does NOT have grade deflation. The median GPA was 3.68 in 2024. UVA was 3.65 in 2023. The relatively-deflated ivies (P, P, Cornell) are all around 3.7, very similar to UChicago that erroneously is called deflated on these boards. Sure Harvard and Brown have much higher medians of 3.9 but WashU is hardly "100% deflated" with a 3.7 median. The typical freshman chem and calc are set to a median of B/B+, Cs are for fewer than 25%. The upper level stem can have medians of A- for some courses. Medical School AOs get data from undergrad med committees and they track data on their own, by undergrad: they know which schools inflate or not and they compare you to your undergrad both related to inflation and related to the peer group of the school. |
Anonymous
Source? Completely against every thing we know about med school admissions. A 4.0 from vcu is considered higher than a 3.7 from a grade deflation but much higher ranked school. The only exception is a 3.7 v a 3.7 with experiences being about equal, too, they will go with the higher ranked school, in general. |
Anonymous
Which private? |
Anonymous
Top 10 K-12, as ranked by Niche.com |
Anonymous
Is there a reason you can’t say the name? |