Why is WUSTL viewed in such a negative light on this forum?

Just curious why WUSTL doesn't have that great of a reputation on here. It's one of the schools I'm considering for my undergrad and having looked at career outcomes, it seems to trail only Wharton, Tepper, Stern, McIntire, Dyson and arguably Georgetown & UMich. Wouldn't this make WUSTL a target at the undergrad level or at the very least one of the top semi-targets?

Additionally, they sent 40% of their class of 2019 to the Northeast region with an average starting salary of $85,000.

I would love to hear some insight on this. Thanks.

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Congrats on getting into WUSTL, sorry you got rejected from real targets and fun semi targets.

WUSTL has good career outcomes because their students come from extremely wealthy and connected families.

"The median family income of a student from WashU is $272,000, and 84% come from the top 20 percent."

 

Although you are a dick, you did somewhat answer my question, so thanks.

Also, I did get into UNC, Kelley and Emory as well, which I'm also considering, I was just a bit confused on why WUSTL is said to have bad OCR despite the high average salary.

 
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Compared to the other programs you listed, WUSTL has the worst B School ranking on US News (T30 now, albeit this is for MBAs, there really is no good Ugrad B school ranking any more so it will have to suffice). Gtown-McDonough is almost as bad, but the policy focus of the school and strong alumni network makes it a more interesting play for banks to come recruit (I can name 10 Hoyas at my firm off the top of my head). Tepper being the next lowest is still ranked 33% higher (19 vs 30 this year). The rest are T15 graduate programs where most WSO users would at least consider getting their MBA from (Sub Dyson for Johnson and McIntire for Darden- the MBA equivalent). When I think WUSTL I think medicine, not business and it shows in the rankings.

Part of this is its location is not as OCR friendly (far from the Northeast, far from Chicago where UChi and Northwestern are, far from Texas where there a bunch of powerhouse schools that have huge #s of recruits within a 2 hours drive of each other, far from the southeast schools like Vandy/UNC/Emory).

When you look at the other schools you got into,.. UNC is known for being uber competitive in state, MBA is T20 = semi-target Emory is a T20 MBA and used to be known as a Top-5 ugrad b school when they had those rankings = semi-target Kelley has competitive IB practicum program = semi-target in this program non target everywhere else WUSTL, high ranked college, bad business school = non-target (almost a semi-target) where you need to hustle to get a job in IB

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