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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is up with them taking 100% of applicants from certain schools? And we r not talking about all very strong students.[/quote]

I’m a different alum.

What were the proposed majors of the kids who applied from the lucky schools?

My impression, from looking at the Niche scattergrams that see if you get a log-in, is that Wash. U., Case Western and probably a lot of other T10 through T40 schools have had much higher acceptance rates for humanities majors than for STEM and business majors.

What might have happened this year is that counselors at some schools noticed the same pattern, got smart and had the students with weaker stats apply as humanities or social sciences majors.

I think another factor is that Wash. U. has seemed like a school that cared more about SATs and ACTs than about grades. If that’s true, maybe some schools’ counselors noticed that and sent Wash. U.  the students with high SATs, reasonably rigorous classes and mediocre GPAs.

Regardless, Wash. U. is a great, kind, serious school that’s trying to get by in a tough world, and I think the bashing it’s getting here is as silly as the bashing aimed at Columbia, UChicago and Oberlin. [/quote]

No offense, but is asinine to think that someone with "mediocre" grades is getting into WashU.  They have more applicants than seats.  They don't need to accept a kid with mediocre grades.[/quote]

But if it’s true that some high schools got applicants outside of the top quarter into Wash. U., that could be part of the explanation.

Maybe those students have, say, 3.7 GPAs and look fine in WUSTL’s admissions scattergrams but are in the second quarter in their school rankings.

Plenty of students in the second quarter at tough high schools are wonderful students. There’s no reason to shun them. [/quote]

Def saw this at our high school [/quote]

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