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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I saw this in another thread, and am curious about your thoughts. I see Rice, Emory, and Vandy are there but not WashU? Their acceptance rate is below 20%, there SAT scores are well into the 1500's, so what happened?

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Wash. U. is a serious, generous, fundamentally kind school that gives a lot of value per tuition dollar.

I had a work-study job in admissions at a top grad school and saw the director, who didn’t seem to be thinking about me, talk about how happy he was to get applications from. Wash. U. students.

St. Louis is a gorgeous, historic, affordable city.

But economic trends have been hard on St. Louis, and it doesn’t have the same kind of pool of deep pockets to access that NYU, Stanford or the Boston schools have.

It has amazing fundraising efforts and a huge tuition, but it has to work extra hard just to stay in place.

The benefit of that for the undergrads is that it knows it has to work hard to please them. It’s not a place where the faculty blow off the students or the cafeteria serves swill. [/quote]

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