OFFICIAL UW-Questions&Answers thread for incoming students(class 2013)

iwantivyleagues
Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:08:44 +0000

Hey, I have a bunch of questions about the University of Washington. For your information, I will be going to the school this fall for the freshman class of 2013. Since I have got no senior, many of my queries went unanswered. And so, I posted them here, thank you in advance for helping me.

1) How is the weather there? I am from Indonesia, a tropical country, and so is quite worried about the so-called gray weather.
2) How much are the winter clothes there?
a) Are they sold on campus?
b) If not, then where can I buy the winter clothes?
3) There have been rumors that the dorms at UW are like dungeons. Just wonder if this is the case, then why don’t you rent an apartment and stay off campus?
a) What is the fee for stay on campus and off campus?
4) I am a person who would go jogging in the morning. I wonder whether I could do it at UW because of the gray weather?
5) The food? Is it expensive?
6) I wonder how intellectual the students at UW are. No offence from this question. It is just that UW admitted every student from my school ( I am international), including those with zero extra curricular activities and low test scores (1550 in SAT).
7) Are the lecturers there qualified? Any Nobel Laureate?
8) How is the student life there?

Thank you very much for your answers. I really appreciate the time you devoted for my question.