seems like almost every major is competitive at UW .
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Iām applying for Sociology and Iām still wondering if all majors at UW have the same acceptance rate or not.
I think itās purposely not made incredibly clear (outside of CS), by many competitive universities, UW included. But anecdotally there are definitely some differences. Itās also briefly referenced in the UW admissions YouTube video linked in a prior post.
Sociology, and many others, arenāt typically all that constrained though.
No, most majors are not competitive. There are 150+ majors and only 25ish are competitive. A competitive major is different than a competitive university, which UW is.
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Well, to be fair, every major in the College of Engineering and the College of Business is capacity-constrained (i.e., competitive), along with most of the more popular STEM majors, all of the music majors, and psychology, economics, and early childhood education.
So, depending on their goals, it may well be that most of the majors in a studentās areas of interest are competitive.
https://advising.uw.edu/degree-overview/majors/list-of-undergraduate-majors/
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Sure, but itās still inaccurate to say that most majors at UW are competitive.
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Of course both can be true. Plenty of the of the most in-demand majors constrained at many competitive schools. Makes sense. But also, so so many liberal arts and others not constrained much at all in most big universities.
Oh the issues discussed while waiting on decisions, but getting close now!
I am concerned about flexibility of changing majors at UW. Does anyone have any insight? My son has two major academic interests: linguistics and chemistry. When he applied wayyyyyy back in October he put linguistics as his first choice and chemistry as second. In hindsight, I wish he had put chemistry as his first choice, since it is clearly more competitive. He has had an amazing year in AP Chem with a great teacher. He now sees himself as a chemistry major with a German minor. He has EU citizenship, so is considering graduate school and future employment in German speaking countries. Still hoping for a UW offer, I feel he might be better served by a US university or liberal arts college where a student has more time to choose a major. Counting down the hours for a UW decisionā¦
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Chemistry and German may not be too hard to switch into, especially if he has a good AP Chem score and pass some entry level Chem classes.
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thereās probably a world where both majors could cross over in medicine or some thing like that. or one could be a major and one a minor but if its anything like my school was, one will be in the College of Sciences and one will be in the College of Liberal Arts or whatever they might be called at UW
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4 hours left!!!
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U sure?
Thatās what people heard from IT last night.
Then I will be waiting for my denial for CS major in the morning:)
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East coast? Come on, you can wait to check portal at 11pm. If you are going for CS, get used to burning late night oil. Youāll need it to complete most class projects. 
The timezone is GMT+3 where I live. So, decisions will be released at 6 am for me
Do we think decisions are tonight?strong text
yep just a strong theory
Ok thanks
I hope the decision will come out today. 
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