Admission Rate Rumor?

JuanitaRebel
Mon, 12 Jan 2015 23:32:04 +0000

@Jsmith210‌ Yeah, it irks me too. The current practice incentivizes people to take stupidly easy classes for GEs and undoubtedly punishes students who challenge themselves. UW needs to do some institutional introspection and ask itself some questions. What does being a university student at UW really mean? What are some of UW’s institutional ideals? Can we in good conscience accept the current number of students, knowing full well that we won’t be able to accommodate a number of them, despite them showing requisite (in that they achieve marks high enough to transfer to equally or better ranked institutions) aptitude and promise in their desired disciplines. The status quo seems to encourage behavior that runs contrary to its lofty motto of “Be Boundless”. Instead, it promotes students playing tetris with their schedules in order to get the perfect line-up of GPA inflating courses (or professors/TA combos in required classes). I think there are a number of broad, more philosophical questions which could be posed to UW’s administration about admission policies as well. And I say all of this as someone who has navigated the system successfully, but also as someone who is cognizant of the system’s inherent shortcomings.