Thanks for a great season!

Thanks to these APAP interviewers who conducted 10 or more interviews during the 2022-23 season! Sophie Allison, ILCH1 David Bass, MNMSP David Bondor, TXSAN Gagana Borra, TNNSH Erik Brinkman, REGNE Michael Byrne, WIMAD Stanley Chang, ZZNAP Austin Chen, KSKSC Max Comisky, FLORL Jim Crisanti, PAPIT Brian Davis, ZZ295 Doug Fisher, MDBLT Jamie Fuhrman, ILCH1 Malini […]

Farewell from the Litchmanns

Dear APAP parent volunteers, We wish to thank each and every one of you for volunteering your time to introduce and welcome families to WashU. It is with some bittersweetness that we are aging out of our role as parent chairs of APAP. Our son, Ian, just graduated from WashU and we have recently returned […]

Spring volunteer opportunities for APAP parents

2023 is well underway, and we are heading into the time of the year when we most rely on our enthusiastic cadre of APAP parent volunteers. The active involvement of APAP parent volunteers is critical during this season—first in encouraging admitted students to choose Wash U and then once they do commit to WashU, to […]

October 2022

Interview Updates Most of you have received emails alerting you that you have interviews to assign in the Portal. The emails are sent weekly (on Wednesdays) to chairs who have applicants to assign. These could be new applicants who have matched to the Portal, applicants who were declined by the interviewer assigned, or assignments that […]

October 2022

What’s New in APAP? Welcome to the 2022-23 Alumni and Parents Admission Program (APAP) season! My name is Jason Lewis (BU07, JD13), and I am honored to return as your APAP executive chair for my final term. I have also served as chair for the St. Louis central committee for the past several years. I […]

September 2022

The APAP Volunteer Portal: new and improved We utilize the APAP Volunteer Portal to manage all interview assignments. We have redesigned it this season in order to make assigning interviews easier for you. Please send us any feedback, as we are are continually making improvements.   Students have already started matching in some committees. More information about […]

September 2022

Welcome to APAP’s 2022-23 season of recruiting, interviewing, enrolling, and welcoming talented students from around the world! Thank you for all you will do to help personalize the admissions process for students and their families. As we celebrate our 30th year of APAP, we will be looking back at our three decades and invite you to […]

August 2022

This weekend is Chair Conference 2022 We are so excited to welcome many of you to campus this weekend for Chair Conference! The conference will begin on Friday evening, August 25, and run through the evening of Saturday, August 26.   If you will not be joining us in person, we invite you to participate in […]

Celebrating and coping with admissions decisions

In the admissions world, spring is a time for celebration for many applicants. This year, WashU received over 33,000 applications for a class size of approximately 1,800. The overall admit rate is just about 10%–the lowest in the university’s history. APAP members interviewed a sizable portion of those students (and future WashU alumni!), and I know how […]