<p>does UW look at applicants’ financial need?</p>
<p>For instate students UW look at the whole package for admittance- not finaid need however.</p>
<p>[Instead</a>, university staffers plan to read and review every one of the 16,000 annual freshmen applications to come up with a “holistic” assessment of each candidate. Besides academic performance, they will consider factors such as whether a student has overcome personal or social adversity, their leadership skills and their extracurricular interests](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002542775_admissions06m.html]Instead”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002542775_admissions06m.html)</p>