UW Engineering Direct Admission benefit?

ZeroShadowBlade
Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:41:08 +0000

You will still need to meet the 180 credit requirement in order to graduate, so you’ll still need 4 years (unless you came in with a lot of college credits).

The benefit is that you’ll be able to take more courses relevant to your major, not have to worry about your grades in the prerequisite courses being high enough for the admissions committee, not have to take courses that are prerequisites for a backup major, not have to stress out about the application process, and you’ll have much more leeway in spreading out the courses taken per quarter based on their supposed difficulty level. Those are some benefits that I could think of off the top of my head, but there’s also more. In a nutshell, you won’t have to experience some of the stress that non direct admits go through and you’ll greatly reduce the amount of courses that are either unnecessary or that you don’t want to take.