UW Bothell is a fine academic institution, but it is very much not a stand-in for a traditional state flagship or regional university. It is largely a commuter and non-traditional student school with very little of the college identity one might associate with UW, WSU, Western Washington, and the equivalents in other states.
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However, the state of Washington has excellent universities that can be considered safeties for top students, such as Washington State and WWU.
The issue with excellent flagships (such as UW Seattle) is that not only are they selective so students need stats and rigor in the context of their school BUT some majors are more popular than others such that the acceptance rate makes these majors reach for everyone (CS, for instance).
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I suspect there is some mistake by the applicant, her high school or the college. Possibilities:
Student applied very late in the admissions cycle.
If a LOR is required, a teacher/counselor either didn’t submit it properly or got it in after the deadline.
Some discrepancy lead to the file being incomplete or being matched up after the deadline. Use of middle initial on some documents, not others; wrong social security number with just one digit off; LOR is written for the student with her nickname rather than formal name or some such issue.
Glitch in the payment of the application fee. Many colleges won’t process an application until the fee clears.
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Yet it happens all the time at private and public schools all across the country
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And my nephew and a classmate both got rejected by UW (in-state applicants), yet got accepted to Berkeley. Crazy!
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The OP has not been on CC for some time. I hope and expect that the OPs student is now happily committed to one of their excellent acceptances.
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The OP’s child will have either committed or decided on another path by now, and the OP has not posted on this thread since March. If the OP wishes to update us, I will reopen the thread. Otherwise it has run its course.
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