Girlie AGDee's College Search Thread

[AGDee]

hypoallergenic received invitations for interviews with alumni from both Northwestern and Wash U. She scheduled one with Wash U but Northwestern's time slots were full. Wash U's was today, at a private high school in the metro Detroit area. It was a lovely set up. They had cookies and water bottles in the main area and then interviewers were meeting with the young men and women 1:1 in classrooms. They had some parents of current students present to chat with parents who were waiting for their students. I enjoyed talking with the parents a lot while hypoallergenic was in her interview. As we walked into the building, I noticed that Northwestern was doing their interviews there also, which was a surprise. One of the other parents there said a friend of theirs hadn't been able to get scheduled for a Northwestern interview but stopped by there today and they fit him in. When hypoallergenic came out of her interview with Wash U., I told her that story and asked her if she wanted to stop in to their room and let them know the time slots were full when she tried to register but she wondered if there were any cancellations. They interviewed her

She enjoyed both interviews, but clicked with the interviewer from Wash U. more. She was very excited to find out from the Northwestern interviewer that their marching band doesn't have auditions and their practices are from 4 pm - 6 pm rather than early in the morning so she has decided that if she goes to Northwestern, she will do marching band. Then she said "He said there is a sorority just for music people!" I told her what I knew about SAI. She sounded quite excited at that prospect.

Oh yes, she added Wellesley to her list also and applied there shortly before their deadline. One of her closest friends has been accepted there and will be swimming on their swim team and there was no application fee so... *shrug* why not?

So, we have about 2.5 months to wait now. I don't remember it taking so long when I applied.. I think Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan must have done/do rolling admissions because I think I found out pretty quickly.

[NutBrnHair]

The daughter of one of my high school friends chose Wash U over Stanford and loves it. She also just joined Chi Omega!

I love following your daughter's journey!

[KDCat]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

The daughter of one of my high school friends chose Wash U over Stanford and loves it. She also just joined Chi Omega!

I love following your daughter's journey!

Washington University is awesome. It's a pretty low key campus for being an academic stand-out. There's a decent amount of stuff to do in St. Louis. The campus is beautiful and close to a wonderful neighborhood and Forest Park. The student housing community is very cool. Sororities don't have housing, but the Greek community is pretty vibrant. Academics are top notch. The campus is pretty safe. It's a wonderful place to spend four years.

I did a graduate degree there. I really liked it.

[Sciencewoman]

Originally Posted by KDCat

Washington University is awesome. It's a pretty low key campus for being an academic stand-out. There's a decent amount of stuff to do in St. Louis. The campus is beautiful and close to a wonderful neighborhood and Forest Park. The student housing community is very cool. Sororities don't have housing, but the Greek community is pretty vibrant. Academics are top notch. The campus is pretty safe. It's a wonderful place to spend four years.

I did a graduate degree there. I really liked it.

I'm afraid you're rubbing salt into the wound...AGDee posted that her daughter was not accepted.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by KDCat

The neighborhood around University of Chicago is very tough. I worked at the U of C hospital there one summer. The neighborhood problems do sometimes flow over on to campus. In the summer while I was there, some teenage girls stole a car and crashed it by my building; certain patients were gang affiliated and brought weapons into the hospital; someone was mugged for a backpack and a bike; stuff like that. Any campus in a big city is going to have problems, but U of C campus seemed a little dicier to me than most.

The campus is beautiful, though. The faculty is top notch. It's a very academic school. The students are very smart and very serious.

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

I'm afraid you're rubbing salt into the wound...AGDee posted that her daughter was not accepted.

Yeah, after visiting U of C, she didn't end up applying there and applied to Wellesley instead.

No worries, she didn't have her heart set on Wash U and she's fine with not being accepted. Going on college confidential and seeing some of the stats of kids who didn't get in... it's amazing. She's in very good company in being rejected from Wash U!

[KDCat]

Originally Posted by AGDee

Yeah, after visiting U of C, she didn't end up applying there and applied to Wellesley instead.

No worries, she didn't have her heart set on Wash U and she's fine with not being accepted. Going on college confidential and seeing some of the stats of kids who didn't get in... it's amazing. She's in very good company in being rejected from Wash U!

Awww... sorry. And Wash U is like that. She did very well, if she got the interview. They have way more kids apply than they have slots to fill. Sometimes I think they take the applications for the qualified kids and throw them down the stairs. The ones that land on the third step from the bottom get accepted.

[Sciencewoman]

Originally Posted by KDCat

Awww... sorry. And Wash U is like that. She did very well, if she got the interview. They have way more kids apply than they have slots to fill. Sometimes I think they take the applications for the qualified kids and throw them down the stairs. The ones that land on the third step from the bottom get accepted.

Lol...great theory!

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by AGDee

So, we have about 2.5 months to wait now. I don't remember it taking so long when I applied.. I think Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan must have done/do rolling admissions because I think I found out pretty quickly.

I think that's true of most state schools.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

I think that's true of most state schools.

Pretty much. We did have certain majors that had set admissions deadlines, though.

Ex: Admissions is rolling but if you were applying to the Architecture major, you needed to apply by a certain date because admission to that major is competitive. This was interesting because you could hypothetically be admitted to the university but NOT accepted to your selected major (if it was one with a selective admissions process.) Our selective admissions majors were programs like Architecture, Dance, Fashion Design, etc.