2012-2013 Washington University in St. Louis Application Thread

[KirTen]

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Got waitlisted here. Is this one of those places where everyone gets waitlisted who interviewed?

 

[Cheezhead]

Waitlisted. Really enjoyed seeing this school and getting the opportunity to interview!

 

[Tots]

Waitlisted. Liked this school a lot! 🙁

 

[pranagirl]

Got waitlisted here. Is this one of those places where everyone gets waitlisted who interviewed?

also waitlisted this morning. I just did some browsing on last year's thread, and someone said it's 1/4 accept, 1/2 waitlist, and 1/4 reject post-interview.

 

[Shockwave456]

Did anyone enter anything in the Comments section of the waitlist? Not sure what they're looking for there.

 

[pranagirl]

Did anyone enter anything in the Comments section of the waitlist? Not sure what they're looking for there.

i just put a short thank you and re-iterated my interest in washu. i don't think they are looking for anything in particular!

 

[Sea Otter]

Where does it say you've been wait listed?

 

[pranagirl]

Where does it say you've been wait listed?

I got an email about the waitlist, and then you are supposed to go to the status page and accept or decline the waitlist spot.

 

[eeeagle]

Waitlisted! *sad trombone*

Looking at the others waitlisted, however, it seems I'm in good company!

Congrats to everyone that has been accepted!

 

[Sea Otter]

I got an email about the waitlist, and then you are supposed to go to the status page and accept or decline the waitlist spot.

Thanks for the info. I was waitlisted as well unfortunately 🙁 ironically enough, the waitlist email was filtered into my spam folder by Gmail

 

[trigonometry]

I'm guessing no email means reject then? 🙁

 

[leigh00]

waitlisted here, too.

 

[fisharmy]

Also waitlisted.

Sent from my DROID BIONIC using SDN Mobile

 

[Classof2013PreM]

Waitlisted this morning- can't say I wasn't suprised after missing so many waves of acceptance updates!

 

[eyessmile]

waitlisted as well

 

[organic1]

Waitlisted as well

 

[dogday]

also waitlisted. seem's like a lot of us

 

[langnese]

waitlisted as well. bummer

 

[mcloaf]

Heyo, joining y'all on the wait list train!

Not shocked from a Feb interview. 😳

 

[NeuroDevil]

REJECTing the notion that anybody who interviewed gets rejected...

 

[scruffy821]

Mine went to spam too, just found it, waitlisted as well. :/ Did they waitlist everyone post-interview? Any rejections out there?

 

[awildcat]

waitlisted too. :/

 

[Wait For It]

Same here. Thought my interview went really well too. *sigh*

 

[Juan Solo]

Also joining the waitlist party!

P.s. congrats to those who have been accepted.

 

[tayless]

waitlisted. Does any current student know how many students are waitlisted? I would like to know my chance of getting in🙁

 

[murunner2013]

Nothing here, last batch of acceptances Friday night? But most likely rejection

 

[ksmi117]

waitlisted. Does any current student know how many students are waitlisted? I would like to know my chance of getting in🙁

We can't give you concrete numbers but in the past it's been what has been said. Of those students interviewed, 1/4 are accepted originally, 1/2 are waitlisted, and 1/4 are rejected.

As far as chances of being accepted off the waitlist, obviously not everyone on the waitlist is accepted, but there is definitely a chance. As far as I know, WashU has never published the number of waitlistees accepted, so I can only speak about what I've heard. However, I know of quite a few people in my class (current 3rd years) that were accepted off the waitlist. So it definitely happens.

 

[notyep1]

waitlisted baby

 

[trigonometry]

haven't heard anything post-interview for 4 months... 🙁

 

[tennisguitar]

Does anyone have an idea of the best way to go about writing a letter of intent/interest for WashU. Normally, you'd go directly through admissions, but are they looking for us to use the comments box as the primary mode of correspondence? Thanks, good luck to all!

 

[pvc829]

Does anyone have an idea of the best way to go about writing a letter of intent/interest for WashU. Normally, you'd go directly through admissions, but are they looking for us to use the comments box as the primary mode of correspondence? Thanks, good luck to all!

Wait-listed here too, joining apparently a rather long train.

As for the question - I sent an update email earlier to their admissions email. They responded within a day or two to tell me that they had received it and would add it to my file. Hope that helps!

 

[tayless]

We can't give you concrete numbers but in the past it's been what has been said. Of those students interviewed, 1/4 are accepted originally, 1/2 are waitlisted, and 1/4 are rejected.

As far as chances of being accepted off the waitlist, obviously not everyone on the waitlist is accepted, but there is definitely a chance. As far as I know, WashU has never published the number of waitlistees accepted, so I can only speak about what I've heard. However, I know of quite a few people in my class (current 3rd years) that were accepted off the waitlist. So it definitely happens.

Does it mean that Wash U put 500 people on waitlist, but only accept ~50?

 

[lcck]

Wustl interviews around 1000 so 250 are accepted outright, 500 are wait listed, and 250 are rejected. Past data suggests they accept around 330 so I think 80 gets off the wait list.

 

[ksmi117]

Does it mean that Wash U put 500 people on waitlist, but only accept ~50?

Not sure what exactly you're getting at here. If you mean originally, WashU accepts enough people for a whole class (120) plus some originally. But since the people who get into WashU tend to get into other awesome schools, people will withdraw and open up new spots.

If you mean that they eventually accept 50 people from the waitlist of however many, yes that is more like the case. I agree that the waitlist is unnecessarily large, but that's how they do things.

 

[Deb123]

Is the waitlist ranked? How does Wash U determine who gets off the waitlist?

 

[wangers5270]

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[fisharmy]

To stand out on the waitlist you need to be this cute
http://qkme.me/3taiih

Nice, haha! 😍😍😍

 

[trigonometry]

nvm

 

[EasterPlatypus]

Rejected via snail mail today. 🙁 I'm really sad, because I really liked Wash U.

 

[Sea Otter]

Anyone get accepted last night/this morning?

 

[powerof0]

Rejected via snail mail today. 🙁 I'm really sad, because I really liked Wash U.

So they do post-interview rejections by snail mail?

 

[Deb123]

To stand out on the waitlist you need to be this cute
http://qkme.me/3taiih

Guess I'm not getting off the waitlist then haha

 

[Dingo Mango]

Well that was awkward... withdrew from WashU on Friday and then got my rejection in the mail today!

 

[Titillated]

LOL were you interviewed?

 

[EasterPlatypus]

So they do post-interview rejections by snail mail?

It would appear so. Also, there's no status update online. It still just says my file's complete.

 

[leon sandcastle]

Historically, when does waitlist movement usually start around?

 

[chronicidal]

Early May

Confidence in the accuracy of my answer: 50%.

95% confidence interval: last week of April to third week of May.

 

[NewYorker9]

does anyone have specifics for WashU's match list from yesterday? it may still be too early for it to have been released

 

[wangers5270]

.

 

[chronicidal]

See specifics at http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=991281

Some summary lists:

Internal Medicine 24
Pediatrics 13
Emergency Medicine 9
Obstetrics and Gynecology 9
Psychiatry 9
Dermatology 7
General Surgery 7
Anesthesiology 6
Diagnostic Radiology 6
Orthopaedic Surgery 6
Ophthalmology 5
Radiation Oncology 5
Family Medicine 3
Child Neurology 2
Otolaryngology 2
Pathology 2
Neurological Surgery 1
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation 1
Plastic Surgery 1
Urology 1

Internal Medicine-Preliminary 14
Transitional Year 8
Surgery-Preliminary 2
Pediatrics-Preliminary 1

Barnes-Jewish Hospital St. Louis MO 31
University of California, San Diego San Diego CA 5
St. Louis Children's Hospital St. Louis MO 4
University of California, San Francisco San Francisco CA 3
Stanford University Program Stanford CA 3
Yale-New Haven Hospital New Haven CT 3
McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University Chicago IL 3
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville TN 3
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School Dallas TX 3
Baylor College of Medicine Houston TX 3
University of Washington Seattle WA 3
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Iowa City IA 2
Brigham & Women's Hospital Boston MA 2
Children's Hospital Boston MA 2
University of Michigan Hospitals Ann Arbor MI 2
St. Louis University School of Medicine St. Louis MO 2
New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia New York NY 2
University Hospital Cincinnati OH 2
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 2
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh PA 2
University of Alabama Medical Center Birmingham AL 1
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Los Angeles CA 1
Kaiser Permanente Medical Group Oakland CA 1
Navy Medical Center San Diego CA 1
California Pacific Medical Center San Francisco CA 1
University of Colorado Denver CO 1
Ft. Collins Family Medicine Program Ft. Collins CO 1
University of Connecticut School of Medicine Hartford CT 1
Georgetown University Hospital Washington DC 1
Jackson Memorial Hospital Miami FL 1
Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta GA 1
University of Hawaii Honolulu HI 1
University of Illinois Chicago IL 1
Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis IN 1
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Boston MA 1
Massachusetts General Hospital Boston MA 1
University of Missouri - Kansas City Kansas City MO 1
Duke University Durham NC 1
University of Nebraska Affiliated Hospitals Omaha NE 1
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Lebanon NH 1
University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 1
Einstein\Montefiore Medical Center New York NY 1
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York NY 1
New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia & Cornell New York NY 1
New York University School of Medicine New York NY 1
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital New York NY 1
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Cincinnati OH 1
Case Western Reserve University Cleveland OH 1
Ohio State University Medical Center Columbus OH 1
University of Toronto Toronto ON 1
Oregon Health & Science University Portland OR 1
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia PA 1
Fox Chase Cancer Center Philadelphia PA 1
Thomas Jefferson University Program Philadelphia PA 1
University of Texas Medical School Houston TX 1
University of Utah Affiliated Hospitals Salt Lake City UT 1
University of Wisconsin Madison WI 1

Central/Midwest (From CO to OH) 56 47.1%
Eastern/Northeast/Mid-Atlantic (From NC to NH) 27 22.7%
West/Pacific (From HI to UT) 21 17.6%
South (From FL to NM to TN) 14 11.8%
Canada 1 0.8%

My more subjective impressions: About two-thirds matched into a program that's generally considered top tier (10-15) within that specialty or into a new ROAD (using the term liberally to include Rads, Rad Onc, Ophtho, Otolaryngology, Orthopedics, Plastic (aesthetic?) surgery, Dermatology) specialty. About one-third matched into a program that's generally considered elite tier (top 1-5?) within that specialty or into a new ROAD specialty program. The relative risk for falling into one of these categories if one is AOA vs. non-AOA is around 2-3.