I bet there’s a 1-page evaluation form for each applicant (at least for in-state students). If anyone out there is good with that whole freedom-of-information-act stuff, I’d sure love to see it!
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For future reference, UW sent financial aid offer today so 11 days after admission.
In my honest opinion, it seems to me that UW is taking more OOS kids than usual. Many will disagree but thats just how I see it. I am seeing many OOS kids with subpar stats getting into UW while in-state kids being rejected.
I guess they have no problem with taking our tax money yet when it comes to return the favor thats when they start to get a little bit stingy and more “holistic”.
The University of Texas system has it figured out. They state that 90% of all incoming students have to be Texas residents, leaving 10% for OOS and International.
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If you dont mind, what did he include in his appeal?
Lower stats for some OOS kids has got to do with significantly lower yield; I may be wrong, but barring comp science, UW isn’t a major target school for many highly competitive OOS students. This may be true for several state flagships except schools with National appeal like UMich, UCB, UCLA, Georgia Tech etc.
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Does anyone have a loose idea of when UW Honors will drop their decisions? I saw one reference online to a drop of about two weeks from RD which could make it today?
Also, I have seen that aid for even in-state is hard to obtain. Is it not unusual for in-state to receive zero aid? They identified a need of x amount in the financial package, but only offered loans which don’t cover the full need they identified. Not unexpected?
I’m so sorry to hear about the waitlist. Hoping she finds her perfect match. Unfortunately there seems to be no rhyme or reason for what the UW is looking for in state. Kids were accepted in my son’s class without the AP and Dual E credits he has. May be the major but they say they look at the second choice?! Luckily the next day he found out he was accepted to the honor’s college and his merit scholarship was increased at another great option:)
I have a student that heard she was accepted into the honor’s college yesterday. Her admission letter said it’s a 2.5% acceptance rate.
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I’m so sorry to hear this. These are the same stats as my son..and same major:( The pre med kids accepted from his high school this year will all go else where. Sadly UW is losing some top students who could stay and give back in WA. My oldest is now in dental school in UTAH because UW dental took more out of state students his year. It’s super discouraging and EXPENSIVE to live in WA and have to pay another state for your education. Best of luck to your son!
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well FWIW, at my sons HS (very competitive Los Angeles HS) UW was a very popular school. My son applied for bicchem and was WL and was pretty high stats, 4.0/4.75 GPA, 9 AP exams, good EC, etc. Asian male…
FWIW, UW is being investigated for discriminatory acceptance practices (DEI)
I fully understand and accept that some schools can have more qualified applicants than spots available. What I have a problem with is that they are letting in less qualified applicants through a loophole of selecting a less competitive major, one of which they have no intention of studying. UW does not mandate that they actually study the major they are accepted to. A growing number of kids who apply to Environmental Studies, French, or Anthropology majors and get accepted with a 3.6 GPA never even take a class in these respective majors. As soon as they step foot on campus, they start taking the prerequisites for Foster, Econ, or Construction Management because there is no policy enforcing them to study the major they identified on their application.
If this is the way it works, why would anyone select one of these majors and get denied with a 3.96 GPA and tons of APs? The way I see it there is no advantage to be honest and select what you want to study, It doesn’t make any sense. If UW is going to accept by major, they need to move to a model more similar to Cal Poly, where you are locked into your major. That would alleviate the cheating of the system that is happening right now.
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Re: aid, we’re in-state and received a strong aid package but I think beyond the federal Pell grant and state college grants, their additional aid is limited. Their financial aid website says they give out two in-state scholarships, one to about 600 kids and one to 100 kids. We were very surprised to see our D25 was offered both for about $9000 total.
Fwiw, UW gave the highest level of state college grant of any of the 3 WA schools she was admitted to, not sure how that calculation works.
Thanks for your response. He’s received substantial need/merit aid from every other accepted college including another in-state so I am just a bit baffled, but congrats to your student! That’s amazing!
Here’s some info on in-state and out-of-state admits. The mix UW goes for seems to be in the 4,400 in-state and 2,800 out-of-state + international range, for an incoming freshmen class. Last year’s in-state class was ~200 bigger than they wanted, because of a high yield. So that would marginally impact the current year. Out-of-state yields are much lower, systemwide, of course. Students apply to many many more colleges, but most would prefer to attend their in-state flagship if they get in!
Having gone through this once before with my oldest, I agree it can be puzzling how different schools read the same financial information. Aid offers varied wildly among the privates her sister was accepted to. I will say UW was the only school not to offer D25 a federal unsubsidized loan, only work study.
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Updating decision dates for those reviewing in the future:
2020: Friday 3/6 after 8pm
2021: Thurs 3/11 after 8pm
2022: Friday 3/4 after 8pm*
2023: Thurs 3/9 after 8pm
2024: Thurs 3/14 after 8pm
2025: Wed 3/12 after 8pm
*There was some conflicting info on 2022, but I confirmed it was Fri 3/4. A way-too-early best guess for next year would be Thursday 3/12 at about 8:15 pm (always west coast time in this thread).
Best of luck to all who are on the waitlist this year and/or may choose to appeal!!
Exactly, when DD started to fill out her applications, she thought Cal Poly is a high reach and UW Seattle Econ is a reasonable (not safe) target.
Guess what, accepted to Cal Poly SLO, rejected by UW. Both test blind schools, so her SAT had no bearing.
UT is the school that we ‘hate’ haha, UT AO is totally nonsense. But if you don’t care about your major and don’t care whether you can get into your major of study later after COLA, then all is good. I would not mind doing psychology and pick up a few CS courses side way, in state tuition is cheap and a job needs lots of effort outside classroom anyway, but my student want the ranking and the college experience, shopping a CS degree outside Texas is expensive, but that is just life.
Yeah, it’s a classic case of, “grass is always greener on the other side”.. lol
I think the portal was updated at 8:15pm but the email to student didn’t come in till 9pm.