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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s because of the location. No one wants to be in Missouri these days and STL has never been a hot destination. It’s better known as the murder capital of the US. And before anyone corrects me that washu is in Clayton. Thanks I know that. I’ve spent a lot of time in STL and Clayton. WashU is a nice little bubble just outside of a really troubled and depressed city.[/quote]

This.

Plus, the WashU grads I know are all a little off in various ways. [/quote]

How exactly?[/quote]

One guy on my block can't / won't make eye contact and grew his hair to his butt crack during Covid, I guess because he could? But he makes a good salary and comes from UMC privilege, so there's that.  The other WashU grad on my block is very disciplined and sweet but socially awkward as hell and tends toward neuroticism. She too comes from great UUMC privilege.[/quote]

Instead of judging WuStl on its ROI or its Wall Street feeder status, just think about having the grades/test scores to get into a college in the top 20 or so, which means they could get into a lot of really interesting, nice, fun schools in great locations in the top 75. U of Florida, Michigan, UGA, BC, BU, etc.

And with all those options, they pick Wash U.

So, what can we induce?  They are likely not interested in sports very much. They probably prioritize academics over fun & being around a variety of lively people. They probably don’t intend to go off campus much, because most other colleges in the top 75 have more going on in the surrounding area. And perhaps most revealing, they almost certainly have an odd ambivalence about spending the rest of their lives explaining to hundreds of puzzled people that they went to college in ST. LOUIS, not Seattle, DC, Lexington VA, or Chestertown MD. There probably isn’t a college in the country that takes more words to explain. It would be like trying to explain the popularity of Howie Mandel to a Martian.

This last one alone would be enough for me to scratch it from my list. Life is short & I just don’t have time for that, no matter how great the academics are.

But the people who choose Wash U DO have time for it, which means they are different, & have unusual priorities. And we shouldn’t be surprised when they turn out to have only one oar in the water, or are otherwise ordering from a different menu from the rest of mankind. [/quote]

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