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Wash U - Basic Information

St. Louis, MO

Ranked #13 - National Universities (US News)

Total undergrad enrollment: 7,046

49% male/51% female

Application deadline - Jan. 15

Early decision deadline - Nov. 15

Application fee: $55

Acceptance rate: 22.2%

Range SAT Critical Reading: 680-750
Range SAT Math: 690-780
Range ACT Composite: 30-33

Required standardized tests: either SAT or ACT

Admissions interview: neither required/recommended
SAT subject tests: optional
Common App

Tuition and fees: $40,374

Room and board: $12,941

25% in fraternities, 25% in sororities

Most popular majors: business, engineering, pre-medicine, psychology, and social sciences

Average freshman retention rate: 96.8%

NCAA III

Wash U - PROS

Academics

• Strong preprofessional programs
• Double/interdisciplinary majors encouraged and easily arranged 
• Outstanding medical school runs a faculty exchange program with the undergraduate biology department - bio majors get opportunities to conduct advanced lab research
• Academic scholarships
• Student-faculty ratio - 7:1
• 70% of classes have fewer than 20 students

Student Life

• Forest Park
• Residential colleges
• Nearby golf course, ice-skating rink, zoo, lake with boat rentals, outdoor theater, science center
• St. Louis Rams, Blues, and Cardinals
• Free shuttle service
• Community service programs in partnership with the city's schools
• Good off-campus food
• Ranked #19 - happiest students
• Ranked #7 - dorms like palaces
• Ranked #1 - best quality of life
• Ranked #8 - best campus food

Wash U - CONS

• Weather
• Tests designed to weed out first year students
• Can be very stressful
• Teachers can be tough and have high expectations
• Distribution requirements are complicated and difficult for students to understand
• Engineering professors are not always great teachers
• Crowded library
• Things are way too expensive
• Wash U is a bit of a bubble