<p>Thanks for your reply parabella,</p>
<p>Didn’t mean to step on any toes about your S’s roommate - just that UW’s admissions office admitted to me that there are no “qualified” standards to determine placement of freshmen (FRAP) in a specific school other than Arts and Sciences. As my S attended the Air Force Academy, I was predisposed to use the term “wasted” as there are a lot of highly qualfied candidates to service academies that don’t get in - only to have someone later quit in the first couple of months. If my D send in her decline letter, I certainly hope someone on UWs waitlist can benefit.</p>
<p>I guess I could have closed out my particpation on UW’s thread on this forum, but I was only commiserating with others who found a cold shoulder from UW’s FinAid office or had dealt with FRAP. </p>
<p>As stated, D is still waiting on UPenn and USC - but she is already satisfied with the offers from Gonzaga and USC (Moore School of Business), so it is already unlikely that UW’s final offer will make her change her mind. It could have been a problem if UW was D’s #1 or #2 choice - turning down better financial offers would have been a bitter pill to swallow (which, if UW were an elite school, that pill would be easier to swallow). </p>
<p>For those of you whose hopes in UW were fulfilled, congratulations and best of luck to your Ss/Ds.</p>
<p>Bottomline - D is very happy, and relieved, that she probably won’t have to attend UW just because I thought it would be “my” safety school in terms of costs. She may miss the water and mountains a little, but she was always confident that her college experience would be served better elsewhere than at UW - just as others feel that UW serves their’s best.</p>
<p>And just to put in a closing Husky dig - D will either enjoy watching better hoops as a Zag, or more excitement on the gridiron with Spurrier’s Gamecocks.</p>