UW admissions threw a bit of a curveball with that Tuesday night release and earlier in the month than the past few years. So, Tuesday night 3/3/26 - for those reading this in the future. I have a feeling a lot of student may learn about this today as not everyone is very active on email.
Curious to hear from more in-state students.
For those willing to share, here’s a quick version of what’s most helpful to know for UW:
accepted / waitlisted / rejected
in-state or out-of-state
first major, requested
unweighted GPA
number of AP (or equivalent) classes taken
any additional information you believe would be helpful
I am fine with private universities doing whatever they want, but a public university running on taxpayer money should be required to justify a decision like this. That seems bonkers.
I made a longer post about it above, but I think “bonkers” is a better description.
These top state schools kinda just do whatever they want with in-state decisions.
Don’t want to take away from the celebration though. Congrats to all who got in!!
Son accepted, OOS. $4200 P&G scholarship. Engineering (intends aerospace), unwtd 3.98 GPA, 7 AP classes, strong EC with leadership roles including overall chair of a major fundraising campaign, first place state science fair project and Westinghouse sponsor award.
D26 OOS (North Carolina) - Accepted
3.88 GPA / 4.44 WGPA (Honors +.5 / AP/IB +1.0)
Top 20% Class Rank at Magnet Program, National School of Excellence award.
13 AP/IB Courses / 15 Honors
Test Scores are not considered at UW (?)
2 Varsity Sports + Captain
Amnesty International (4 Years), Key Club (4 Years), Women in History Co-founder/Co-president (2 years), Book Club Vice President (2 Years).
Volunteer assistant youth soccer coach 3 years, Red Cross AED/CPR Adult and Infant Certified.
Indiana University Kelley School of Business Womens Leadership Institute Summer 2025. Summer internship - Small Business consulting.
Comparative Application:
Wait List:
UNC-CH
Admit:
Indiana University - Kelley Business DA
Illinois - Gies Business DA
University of Washington - “Pre” Business
University of Florida
Purdue University - Daniels Business DA
University of Georgia
Florida State University
North Carolina State University - Poole Management
University of Ternnessee - Haslam Business DA
Decline:
University of Texas - McCombs Business
She is officially at the compare and cut down numbers stage - and it looks like UW will be on the ‘outside’ of her first five list.
Congrats to those who were admitted, for the wait listers happy thoughts, and for those who did not receive positive news here there are schools out there that want you and that would be a great fit for you! Good luck to all
The official word on this (at least what we have heard at their admission presentations) is that they only consider test scores for a very small number of students that are on the borderline. Otherwise, the AOs do not even see the scores. But I guess it may make a difference in a few cases.
Congratulations and it looks like you likely know this, but take a DA over pre for business. Foster is increasingly difficult to get into without DA and a big reason many go elsewhere for business.
Thank you. I’m very proud of her putting herself out there to a number of very good schools.
Yes.
Her Kelley DA comes with a pretty big chunk of merit money. Her Gies DA does not - making the delta potentially around 60k difference between them. (Between us her mother and I are 5x Illini - but even so, that’s a big chunk of money to pay out for alumni spirit… I was really hoping she’d pull the UNC-CH B-School DA (I also have a degree from Carolina) because it’s not only a great school but also it would be about 1/2 the cost as an In-State student – but the wait list designation is about as hard a no as you can get without it being “Declined”.
She has the DA at Purdue Daniels (Her brother did his first year at Daniels before transferring to UNC-CH and her mother was a Purdue Undergrad in Krannert, and multiple of her first cousins are Purdue and Daniels grads…) but it’s probably going to take a fabulous “Purdue’s For me” student weekend for her to get it into her top three.
The University of Florida offer is the dicey one - Warrington is an internal application (like Georgia Terry and now UW Foster would be for her) but word is that the success rate of applicants is not super favorable - but she really likes their environmental science programs as a second major choice - so she’s trying to justify that second level of application risk to Warrington to keep it in her top three list. She seems un-phased by their 9 credit hour Florida university system summer course requirement as well. Plus they offered some merit, and already have a fairly low OOS tuition.
D26 accepted, OOS
Communication major
4.0 UW, 3.3 W GPA, 33 ACT (I think she submitted even though they don’t typically look at it)
9 APs, 2 CC classes
typical ECs and essay - 3-year varsity athlete/captain, national recognition as scholar/athlete, lots of volunteer hours, part-time jobs, student council, school TV anchor
Which area code? 206 or 425 by chance?
OOS (Texas) - Accepted, Biochemistry (DA) + $3000 P&G
Homeschooled, GPA: 3.97 UW, 4.71 W
Will graduate with 69 DE hours (54 at the time of application), with a 4.0 in DE classes. This translates roughly to 103 (81 at time of application) UW credit hours (UW takes max 90 credits)
Only one AP test (he always clarifies on his applications that AP classes are very expensive for homeschool students): 5 on Lang & Comp.
I know standardized tests don’t matter, but they appeared on his submitted common app to UW, so: 1500 and 34, NM commended
Over 800 volunteer hours @ Food Bank, 2xGold Presidential Service Award (qualified for 3rd, but Trump did away with them before he was awarded)
Board Member of Food Bank Student Org (300+ kids)
Research internship with Agro Genomics Lab @ TAMU (not pay to play)
Some other minor ECs like tennis (plays with team at CC where he does DE), and youth orchestra
He was wondering if he’d be assigned pre-science. He was not, and for those in the future wondering, he took the following as DE: Bio 1&2, Intro to Chem + Chem 1&2, Physics 1&2, Calc 1&2. I don’t know what qualifies someone as DA vs. pre-science, but if it’s prerequisites, it seems he fulfilled them.
Other acceptances:
UT Austin (Biochem DA)
TAMU
University of Toronto
University of Edinburgh
University of St. Andrews
Declined:
Cambridge
Imperial College of London
Still waiting:
University College London
UW has always been his #1, even over Cambridge (although he did seem disappointed by their response, but this was well before we heard from UW).
Does anyone get a 10k P&G scholarship lol? The highest I’ve heard of is 5.4k and the average around 3k
Anyone else willing to share decisions and stats? Any rejections can be the most difficult to post, but can also be helpful.
This is the dream school for so many in-state students. Those who grew up “bleeding purple and gold”. If you didn’t get good news, I sure hope you’re hanging in there! Don’t give up quite yet. Worth a shot on the waitlist, and take a swing at an appeal if you think you have a good case. Again best of luck!!
206
I guess it’s just a really competitive major
It stings.
Just wanted you to know I feel your pain. My Daughter is graduating from UDub this year. CA kid who applied to Cal, UCLA, UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, San Diego St, Cal Poly Slo. Yes, they are 9 of the best public colleges in CA. Rejected to 5 right off the bat and waitlisted to 4. Ended up being rejected to all 9. Accepted into UDub not thinking it would be the college of choice. She knew it was a good school, but wanted to really stay in CA all said and done. 4 years later she feels like it was an awesome unexpected path. Whatever decision you end up making…embrace it and have fun! All will work out if you keep a positive mindset 
Congrats on a successful high school career. My daughter took a ton of AP classes, scored 3 or 4 on 6 AP test, travel/high school softball player, founder of an environmental club, 4.6 weighted GPA.
