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Anonymous wrote:^^ from our private

Which private?

Top 10 K-12, as ranked by Niche.com

Is there a reason you can’t say the name?

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Anonymous wrote:^^ from our private

Which private?

Top 10 K-12, as ranked by Niche.com

Anonymous wrote:^^ from our private

Which private?

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Anonymous wrote:DS is recruited athlete who got in ED. Not quite at that 35 act/4.0 level - but not too far off. Did apply TO. We are proud that all that hard work in sports gives him the opportunity that would otherwise only be available to super top students who are lucky enough to win the lottery. We have no doubt he will perform well academically- even if his stats are a touch lower than the academic pureplay kids. Such an incredible school in so many ways!

It is an excellent school…but…it is very tough on grading (100% grade deflation). My superstar academic kid had a rude awakening. Fair warning…

This. Exact same for my fcps very high stats kids with national level awards. Significant grade deflation

I have never heard this before. I am bummed to hear this as I don't think my burned out kid wants to go to a grade-deflationary school...

Ignore PP. If their kid got truly low grades, ie below a 3.3, they were significantly lacking in intelligence or discipline compared to 75% of WashU students.
WashU does NOT have grade deflation. The median GPA was 3.68 in 2024. UVA was 3.65 in 2023. The relatively-deflated ivies (P, P, Cornell) are all around 3.7, very similar to UChicago that erroneously is called deflated on these boards. Sure Harvard and Brown have much higher medians of 3.9 but WashU is hardly "100% deflated" with a 3.7 median.
The typical freshman chem and calc are set to a median of B/B+, Cs are for fewer than 25%. The upper level stem can have medians of A- for some courses.
Medical School AOs get data from undergrad med committees and they track data on their own, by undergrad: they know which schools inflate or not and they compare you to your undergrad both related to inflation and related to the peer group of the school.

Source? Completely against every thing we know about med school admissions. A 4.0 from vcu is considered higher than a 3.7 from a grade deflation but much higher ranked school. The only exception is a 3.7 v a 3.7 with experiences being about equal, too, they will go with the higher ranked school, in general.

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Anonymous wrote:DS is recruited athlete who got in ED. Not quite at that 35 act/4.0 level - but not too far off. Did apply TO. We are proud that all that hard work in sports gives him the opportunity that would otherwise only be available to super top students who are lucky enough to win the lottery. We have no doubt he will perform well academically- even if his stats are a touch lower than the academic pureplay kids. Such an incredible school in so many ways!

It is an excellent school…but…it is very tough on grading (100% grade deflation). My superstar academic kid had a rude awakening. Fair warning…

This. Exact same for my fcps very high stats kids with national level awards. Significant grade deflation

I have never heard this before. I am bummed to hear this as I don't think my burned out kid wants to go to a grade-deflationary school...

Ignore PP. If their kid got truly low grades, ie below a 3.3, they were significantly lacking in intelligence or discipline compared to 75% of WashU students.
WashU does NOT have grade deflation. The median GPA was 3.68 in 2024. UVA was 3.65 in 2023. The relatively-deflated ivies (P, P, Cornell) are all around 3.7, very similar to UChicago that erroneously is called deflated on these boards. Sure Harvard and Brown have much higher medians of 3.9 but WashU is hardly "100% deflated" with a 3.7 median.
The typical freshman chem and calc are set to a median of B/B+, Cs are for fewer than 25%. The upper level stem can have medians of A- for some courses.
Medical School AOs get data from undergrad med committees and they track data on their own, by undergrad: they know which schools inflate or not and they compare you to your undergrad both related to inflation and related to the peer group of the school.

^^ from our private

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, you have no clue. WashU is amazing. Kids with Ivy level stats ED here.

Kids with Ivy level stats apply RD. The ED kids, especially from private schools, are well below.

I wouldn't say well below. The ED WashU kids are a little above what UVA ED takes from our private and similar to what UChicago takes ED, in other words bottom of the top 10% or top of the next decile, 1450-1510, not quite the top-5%-rigor of the ivy admits but plenty of rigor.
The WashURD acceptances are almost always ivy material (top-5% rigor as well as rank, 1530+), tend to have at least one ivy or T10 RD but sometimes washu is the best one they get

Please. The WashU ED admits are very well below UChicago and UVA ED admits. I'm talking 3.4-3.6 GPA and 1250-1400 SAT.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, you have no clue. WashU is amazing. Kids with Ivy level stats ED here.

Kids with Ivy level stats apply RD. The ED kids, especially from private schools, are well below.

I wouldn't say well below. The ED WashU kids are a little above what UVA ED takes from our private and similar to what UChicago takes ED, in other words bottom of the top 10% or top of the next decile, 1450-1510, not quite the top-5%-rigor of the ivy admits but plenty of rigor.
The WashURD acceptances are almost always ivy material (top-5% rigor as well as rank, 1530+), tend to have at least one ivy or T10 RD but sometimes washu is the best one they get

I warned my ds about the grade deflation but he wanted to ED anyway (got in, v happy). He was accepted to A&S, thinking of transferring into or double majoring in Olin. Friends are telling him he shouldn't worry - grade deflation is worst for the pre-med/STEM courses. He's a very strong math student.

I know this is an old thread, but the difference in stats for the kids from our school who apply early to T10 vs WashU is very minimal - and the kids who get into WashU ED2 have very high stats. Our school has so many legacies and big donors applying into HYP+ that is they are highly unlikely for almost every other kid, whereas we don't have many (or any) legacies to WashU, NU, Rice, etc

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Anonymous wrote:DS is recruited athlete who got in ED. Not quite at that 35 act/4.0 level - but not too far off. Did apply TO. We are proud that all that hard work in sports gives him the opportunity that would otherwise only be available to super top students who are lucky enough to win the lottery. We have no doubt he will perform well academically- even if his stats are a touch lower than the academic pureplay kids. Such an incredible school in so many ways!

It is an excellent school…but…it is very tough on grading (100% grade deflation). My superstar academic kid had a rude awakening. Fair warning…

This. Exact same for my fcps very high stats kids with national level awards. Significant grade deflation

I have never heard this before. I am bummed to hear this as I don't think my burned out kid wants to go to a grade-deflationary school...

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Anonymous wrote:DS is recruited athlete who got in ED. Not quite at that 35 act/4.0 level - but not too far off. Did apply TO. We are proud that all that hard work in sports gives him the opportunity that would otherwise only be available to super top students who are lucky enough to win the lottery. We have no doubt he will perform well academically- even if his stats are a touch lower than the academic pureplay kids. Such an incredible school in so many ways!

It is an excellent school…but…it is very tough on grading (100% grade deflation). My superstar academic kid had a rude awakening. Fair warning…

This. Exact same for my fcps very high stats kids with national level awards. Significant grade deflation

I like that they are not handing over an easy A like Harvard. This reputation is well known and highly respected--and bodes well for their graduates when seeking employment or PhD/med school.

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Anonymous wrote:DS is recruited athlete who got in ED. Not quite at that 35 act/4.0 level - but not too far off. Did apply TO. We are proud that all that hard work in sports gives him the opportunity that would otherwise only be available to super top students who are lucky enough to win the lottery. We have no doubt he will perform well academically- even if his stats are a touch lower than the academic pureplay kids. Such an incredible school in so many ways!

It is an excellent school…but…it is very tough on grading (100% grade deflation). My superstar academic kid had a rude awakening. Fair warning…

This. Exact same for my fcps very high stats kids with national level awards. Significant grade deflation

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Anonymous wrote:Any luck?

Why is this second tier school so popular among high stats kids?

Why did you feel the need to open a thread that was a year old?

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Seriously, I have twins who are waiting for decisions from WashU and I almost asked them whether they got in. This is from 2025 people!

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Anonymous wrote:Any luck?

Why is this second tier school so popular among high stats kids?

Why did you feel the need to open a thread that was a year old?

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Anonymous wrote:Any luck?

Why is this second tier school so popular among high stats kids?

to get a rise out of you, obviously