Big, friendly school for cool people

Introduction
This is a great school for somebody who is looking for a big school environment who wants to meet a lot of different kinds of people. I mean it’s really good academically, but you’re not going to get a lot of diversity at this school, it’s pretty much the same kind of people that go here and it’s a very laid back, vanilla school, not that that’s a bad thing but it’s just not very exciting or flavorful.

Campus Life and Social Life
The professors do generally care a lot and you can get a lot of individual attention and spend a lot of time with different professors working with them, you know just having discussions with them, etc. so if you’re talking about academics, the best thing is the kind of individual attention you can get with your professors, but I wouldn’t say that the academics here are stellar. Academics
The people in the pre-med program are pretty boring, but the actually department is pretty good. I think the writing department here is very strong. You have a lot of open-minded people, who just want to explore lots of different ideas and the writing teachers are excellent they bring in a lot of good writers to do lecture series here so I think the writing departments is kind of one of the strong departments here and that goes under the radar a lot that nobody pays much attention to.
As far as Women’s Basketball, like I know that they’re awesome, but nobody really cares about sports here, which is too bad. I mean, kudos to them for doing really awesome, but I don’t think I went to one Women’s Basketball game in my 4 years and I think a lot of people feel like that. The sports here just don’t really get a lot of attention. I think intramural sports might get a lot more attention than sponsored school sports.

Student Body
There’s not a lot of casual sex, if that’s what you’re into. There are people looking to date. I wouldn’t say there’s much random hooking up as there are maybe at other schools, but that’s probably a good thing, probably a little less disease transmission, but it’s not great. A lot of the people here are just kind of bland, focused on their academics. They’re not really into like the typical college experience.
The only famous alumni that I know is the guy who directed Ghost—oh no, the guy who was in Ghost Busters and he directed Ground Hog Day and he directed Animal House and his name escapes me right now, but he was kind of the nerdy Ghost Buster. Yeah, Eager—Egon from Ghost Busters went to Wash U and I saw him one time on campus and he’s pretty dope. And he directed Animal House and Groundhog Day so that was pretty cool.

In Closing...
I lived in the dorms for 3 years. I preferred off-campus because where I lived I lived in U. City so you got exposed to a more diverse crowd with more going on. And the dorms there isn’t a lot of stuff going on in the dorms other than studying and there’s partying on the weekends, but during the week it’s pretty tame. Just a lot of people studying and just focusing on their academics. When you live off-campus you get to—you know I would suggest getting a job making sure that you break out of the little Wash U community to explore like the greater St. Louis area because there’s a lot of things that the outside community has to offer that you won’t get on the inside.

As far as research is concerned, I know that they hire a lot of professors based on their research perspectives rather than their abilities in the class room, which helps in the national rankings if you do good research, but kind of hurts the daily life of students, which is kind of my biggest problem with the University that they seem to be more concerned with being nationally recognized than pleasing the students they have here and making sure the students get a great experience every day for this really expensive tuition that we pay.