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[quote=Anonymous]Really tops in many scientific disciplines, one of the best medical schools/biomedical research programs in the country (far ahead of some Ivys for instance in NIH grant funding awarded).  Have had many Wash U prior students in my laboratories, medical school precepts over the years, they are very well-prepared and educated.  They do engage in some questionable tactics (lots of merit aid, counting incomplete applications etc) in the admissions lottery, but seems like all the top 50 but not perceived top 10 schools do it (see recent publicity about practices at Claremont, GW, Washington and Lee, Tulane, Emory etc).  Nice size, big enough and with enough top grad schools to have lots of opportunities and wide variety of classes available, small enough to not feel lost in a huge university. From my 2 DD's recent classes, kids ended up at Wash U in two groups, some that truly aspired to be there, were in top half or third of the class at "big 3/5" and often applied ED, and the other were kids that truly were really at the top of the class, and had real chances at HYPS, but in the randomness of admissions, some ended up not getting into their first choices, and did get into Wash U (some with merit aid) and went there (in some cases choosing over Dartmouth, Cornell, Northwestern, U Chicago and the like). Most seem very happy there.  Some have found the preprofessional emphasis/competition a bit much, along with some very pampered classmates attracted there by all the bells and whistles.
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