My D25 was just sent an email about registering for admitted student day on April 19th. It looks like you do have to register and you shouldn’t just show up.
Accepted
Computer Engineering
3.6 UW
SAT 1180 (Math 800, ERW 380)
3 APs, 4 honors classes
Also got accepted EA UMich, UIUC, and VTech
Rejected from REA Caltech and EA GTech
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Congratulations! We really hadn’t seen many in that gpa range lately, so that’s helpful.
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I haven’t been able to find any information on when UW typically sends out financial aid letters for incoming students (their website just lists general range of “spring to summer”). Does anyone know how long after admission decisions the aid letters are sent out?
I know it will come eventually :), but it’s the final thing my daughter is waiting for to make a decision.
FWIW my son is 3.7 UW, no ACT shared variety of honors classes 6APs 10college credits. Multi-season track/advisory leader/community service credit on transcript. Accepted OOS for Geography/Pre Social Sciences. He’s deciding between UWash/UWisc leaning UWisc as we’re east coast.
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Congrats to your son! Sounds like a couple of great options. Win-win.
Most universities seem to like to have representation from across the country. The majority of UW (Washington that is) applicants are from the west coast, specifically WA and CA, so I’d expect this can be a factor too.
Thanks! I definitely think our location is a factor. Older son got WL at UWash, but that’s fine he was accepted to UT-Austin. He’s been there 3 years and loves it. For current son we were semi-surprised given our frame of reference was WL. We’re still working our way through the full evaluation of both schools but it’s a great to have two amazing schools to compare. I suspect it will come down to visits.
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Will anyone here be appealing?
Does anyone knows if UW Honors offers are out yet?
Such a crazy and difficult admissions cycle for in-state students, many extremely amazing students waitlisted - my DD was also waitlisted 3.95 UW (top 10% in class in very large senior class)- state and national level ECs, lots of AP/Dual Enrollment credits, leadership, PT jobs, passion projects etc. We can only hope they will pull some kids from the waitlists. Sorry to hear about your son, totally get it.
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UW admissions are a big mystery, and looks like they like to keep it as such.
I know everyone keeps saying that admissions are a lottery, but DD has been accepted to every single out of state school she applied, some with less than 25% acceptance rates (which would be even lower for out of state, and direct business.)
But, our own in-state flagship with apparently 50% acceptance rate didnt find her to be a good fit for even a pre-econ major.
I’m all for UW to have their institutional priorities, but so wish they are a little more transparent to not blindsight applicants. It’s such a heart break, but we’ve moved on.
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I know transparency is not a schools strong suit, but do you have waitlist data? Do you know if they look at second choice major during admissions? (From heresay, that’s an no). Our school usually does well and this year it has been shocking. I know funding a huge issue and oos bringing in the $$$. But what a shame to lose so many exceptional students to other states. Thankfully those same students are running the table oos.
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It all gets confusing and is difficult to fully explain in this format, but university admissions are designed to meet their priorities, within the law, and they all seem to find away to do it. UW priorities (similar to other big state schools I presume) are the following: 1) increase the share of what they define as minorities or “urm” under-represented minorities (non-asian, non-white I believe), so therefore making an effort to decrease the asian/white % of the class. 2) increasing the % of in-state first-gen students, so decreasing the % of non first-gen, for in-state acceptances 3) make sure to get enough out-of-state and international students to pay the higher tuition and cover the bills (this is a pretty set # year-to-year), and 4) accept as many WA state cc transfer students as possible (less related to the topic at hand, but it’s a priority)
Again, I don’t believe these are just UW specific priorities, pretty system-wide at least on the west coast. So if these are your priorities, you can just backfill the methods. If you fall outside of one of the priority groups, you need to be near perfect and/or get some good luck. I try to be as fair as possible with all this, but after reviewing everything over the past several years- it’s all pretty clear. They also make their priorities quite apparent in the presentations to the board of regents (attached previously).
I’m really not trying to argue right or wrong, but just more transparency to state residents would seem appropriate.
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Thank you! Yes I understand all of that there just seems a bigger shift this year so wondered why? Perhaps the loss of funding is driving it. The admissions videos they put out in summer really spelled out major choices and indicated to pick a second major that closely aligns with first. However with impacted majors, those that didn’t follow those videos were more successful.
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Last year’s in-state class was bigger than they wanted. They seem to go for the 4,400 range and it was over 4,600 - because of a higher in-state yield rate. So, that would impact this year. Not huge, but on the margins. There haven’t been real significant changes in the size and make-up of the class. They seem to like it to be in the 7,200 range with 4,400 in-state and 2,800 out-of-state + international. If it gets too far out of line from that it can impact the mix a bit in the following year/s.
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The lack of transparency in how major selection (not direct ones) impact admission decision is my biggest frustration with UW.
It sucks how some people have been taking advantage of this loop hole.
Even we could have applied undeclared / Greek, but just went with standard guidance like a noob.
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What can also get confusing in these discussions is that many of these big competitive state universities accept many more out-of-state students than in-state.
For example UW will accept 15,000+ out-of-state students vs. 7,500 in-state students. This is very typical. Students apply to many more schools now. So the spread between the in-state yields and out-of-state yields continues to grow. 60%+ of in-state students who are accepted to UW will attend, for example. But out-of-state yields are much lower at all universities. Again, systemwide - not just UW specific.
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I thought I’d mention this path, understanding it’s not for everyone. UW accepts over 70% of WA cc transfers and only 20% of transfers from other colleges/universities. If graduating from UW is a top priority, attending a WA cc for a ~year could likely get you in (if you load up on the credits, perhaps beginning this summer). If you attend another in-state or out-of-state university in the fall, the path is much more competitive later to get back in. The cc classes can be attended online and they aren’t generally considered too difficult. Also, very significant $ saving that could be spent on a really fun international trip or something :). Again, clearly not for everyone, but it’s a viable option if graduating from UW is a priority.
This is what my daughter is planning to do if she does not get in off the waitlist. She has a ton of credits through Running Start, and will go another quarter/year at Bellevue College and then try again as a transfer.
She REALLY wants to go to UW
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She’ll get in. It’s a great way to move into one of the “priority” groups discussed above. Average admitted gpa coming out of WA cc’s is only in the 3.5 range. Very doable.
You can be annoyed (to put it very very lightly) with the admissions department and process, but still have some love for the school! They sure make it difficult though.
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