Thoughts on Wash U in St. Louis?

[Anonymous]

No one in his or her right mind would or should reject admission to Stanford or Yale to attend at WashU. WTF?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good school. However, overrated in rankings due to statistical data manipulation.

Why don't you share your "statistical data manipulation" conspiracy theory with USNews so they can bust WASH U? [but you should remove your tin foil helmet before meeting with them - it damages credibility]

[Anonymous]

Ask the admissions director at Wash U how it determines the number of "total applicants"?

1) Filling out a postcard
2) Driving by campus
3) Peering through classroom window.

Wash U's poor yield belies its selectivity.

[Anonymous]

From the admissions website:

Washington University accepts the Common Application and requires a few simple supplemental questions (no supplemental essay).

We will also waive the application fee if you students who have absolutely no chance of being admitted will fill out part 1 of the application.

Part 1: Last Name_____ First Name______

Thank you for applying. Your rejection notice will soon follow.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some of these responses are funny. I turned down a huge, no-loans scholarship at Wash U and went to a prestigious East Coast SLAC (from which I later dropped out), and I alwayd regretted it profoundly. Wash U is excellent, and only moving up in the rankings. It is well funded and the alums are loyal to a fault; I know multiple recent grads who speak truly well of it.

The funny responses are from the people who try to make this school sound better than it is.

+1. St. Louis? Really?

It's a very nice place to go to school. I went there. The campus is beautiful and the surrounding neighborhoods are fun. It's MUCH less dangerous than the area around University of Chicago.

[Anonymous]

Every person I have known who went to Wash U is Jewish. Coincidence.

[Anonymous]

It's a very nice place to go to school. I went there. The campus is beautiful and the surrounding neighborhoods are fun. It's MUCH less dangerous than the area around University of Chicago.

Oh come on. Hyde Park is a nice little bubble of safe area in the South Side. Just don't stray out of the safe parts of Hyde Park and into the ghetto and you're fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every person I have known who went to Wash U is Jewish. Coincidence.

Yes. The people I know who went there are Catholic, Methodist and Agnostic. Go figure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

It's a very nice place to go to school. I went there. The campus is beautiful and the surrounding neighborhoods are fun. It's MUCH less dangerous than the area around University of Chicago.

Oh come on. Hyde Park is a nice little bubble of safe area in the South Side. Just don't stray out of the safe parts of Hyde Park and into the ghetto and you're fine.

I would actually say it varies street by street. Doesn't necessarily have to be entirely ghetto. You only need one house with drug dealers to change up the safety of a block.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every person I have known who went to Wash U is Jewish. Coincidence.

Everyone I know who went to Wash U is black or Asian. Hmmm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

It's a very nice place to go to school. I went there. The campus is beautiful and the surrounding neighborhoods are fun. It's MUCH less dangerous than the area around University of Chicago.

Oh come on. Hyde Park is a nice little bubble of safe area in the South Side. Just don't stray out of the safe parts of Hyde Park and into the ghetto and you're fine.

I also worked on the U of C campus, in the office of the VP of Nursing for the hospital. It's a freakin' war zone. It's a beautiful campus, but it's not particularly safe. The neighborhood comes to campus, ya know? We had some teenage girls crash a stolen car on campus, many students mugged for backpacks and bikes and electronics, countless problems with weapons on patients in the hospital, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Every person I have known who went to Wash U is Jewish. Coincidence.

Everyone I know who went to Wash U is black or Asian. Hmmm.

Wash U. has always had a very diverse student body. They admitted people without regard to race or religion at a time when the Ivies were trying to stay as WASPy as possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every person I have known who went to Wash U is Jewish. Coincidence.

Interesting. Me too. About 7 people, and they don't know each other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every person I have known who went to Wash U is Jewish. Coincidence.

Everyone I know who went to Wash U is black or Asian. Hmmm.

Wash U. has always had a very diverse student body. They admitted people without regard to race or religion at a time when the Ivies were trying to stay as WASPy as possible.

That is my point

[Anonymous]

I would actually say it varies street by street. Doesn't necessarily have to be entirely ghetto. You only need one house with drug dealers to change up the safety of a block.

I suppose. I grew up in a very safe North Shore suburb of Chicago, but one of my good friends lived in Hyde Park (her father was a professor at U of C). They knew which blocks/neighborhoods to avoid, but there were several areas in Hyde Park that we were perfectly comfortable and safe wandering around in as a group of teenage/college kids in the dark. So not all of the area surrounding Hyde Park is particularly dangerous, although I'll admit, some parts are sketchy.