University of Washington Class of 2028 Official Thread

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I mean are senior year mdi year transcripts needed to be submitted for UW?

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Short answer is “no”. Senior grades haven’t been considered in prior years. Unless you need to appeal. Best to keep them up just in case. Senior course rigor is definitely considered, but those courses were already provided in the original application.

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Why does UW take so long to finalize decisions? Their deadline was right around EA/ED schools and yet they release their decisions around when RD schools do.

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I think it is because the pool is larger. They only have one round so it takes longer to review everyone holistically.

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I believe many of the competitive schools release decisions in March. Including many UC schools. No early decisions. Seems pretty typical.

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CS OOS acceptance rates are 2%: Freshmen by the numbers | Office of Admissions
For context, MIT last year had a 4.8% acceptance rate. I wouldn’t be surprised if UW’s OOS CS yield rate is pretty low.

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Normal OOS yield for top flagships is about 30%. Allen admitted 80 OOS students last year. So, there are 20 OOS students in each CS and CE class at Allen?

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That 30% figure is likely really different for CS (given how competitive it is and UW’s status in CS). Also, Allen holds 4 years’ worth of admits, so if 20 OOS enroll every year, then there are 80 OOS at Allen.

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New email dropped:

“We know you’re eager to get your University of Washington admission decision. We are on track for our March 1–15 freshman admission notification period. However, we expect that most students will receive their decisions the week of March 11–15.”

Anyone know if they sent this last year? And does UW release decisions on a rolling basis within the timeline since it says “most students”?

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Earlier admits might be scholarship recipients.

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I recieved that as well!

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They release them all at once. There are a few dozen that come out early, but don’t be distracted by those. It’s been discussed in prior years if you want to look back. 60,000+ decisions have all been released w/ in the same 30 minutes or so. That email is most likely just warning everyone that it’ll be the week of 3/11. A few days later than previous years. (read the earlier posts about prior year decision dates if you want details). And yes they sent out similar messages the past couple years fine-tuning the likely decision timing.

Best of luck all! Not far off now.

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Thanks for this. Do you know why that few dozen come early. Just curious.

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Total stab here, but could be a systems check right? They have to do a mail merge for a database with many tens of thousands of records. Now, anyone in email marketing will tell you that that’s a very small number. Easy peasy. But, given that the stakes are so high, in the sense that errors cause people a lot of pain, they need to make 100% sure they get it right.

And big, bad mistakes actually do happen with this stuff including recently. Just google the U Kentucky thing (500,000 acceptances WAT!!!), Northeastern (thousands for law), etc.

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There are just a handful of “presidential scholarships” and similar that get announced early as I understand it. But it’s truly a very small number and just a distraction from the 60,000+ decisions that will come out all at once on one evening. And that now sounds like it will be some time during the week of 3/11 per that UW message.

They sent out similar messages the last couple years fine-tuning the timing. It’s helpful. People don’t need to update their portals every 10 minutes beginning 3/1 now. But I’m sure some will :wink:

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Just a few more hours!!

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What evening do you think most of the decisions will come out. Is it generally Fridays?

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I summarized prior year decision dates in a post above (#5 post or so). Typically it was a Thurs or Fri yes, but since they have now communicated “week of 3/11” I have a feeling it’ll more likely be early or middle of that week. Just my best guess though. I’d be surprised if they waited all the way until Fri 3/15. Again, take a look at that prior post if you want the recent year decision dates.

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So we aren’t thinking tomorrow I take it :frowning:

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How all those nerves doing? All the March decision dates can feel like an eternity I remember. Hope everyone is hanging there!

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