@indecisive19 , the student I helped with ended up choosing UW. She loved the UW campus and the urban location, and her family loved the few thousand dollar savings. She doesn’t watch football, so to her, the school spirit is too much on game days.
About housing – she got into the newest and nicest dorm. According to her, international students get priority for the new dorms. Presumably, the school wants to leave a good impression with international students and attract more in the future. The new dorms are NICE! Better than a lot of private university’s dorms. Ground floor activity rooms, gym, game room, maker lab, kitchen; each floor has kitchen, study area, TV room; and many rooms have a nice Seattle downtown or Lake view!
Good luck tomorrow – UW decisions are coming out!