@Kringal That’s why getting in tonight or whenever has me on pins and needles. Glad your D is doing well after all!
It’s started, comp sci accepting folks through portal updates. Keep checking over the next hour or so! It’s on!!!
Alright, not hearing more, thinking some guys were playing us. Maybe tomorrow
Woo hoo! Our son’s portal was just updated and he’s in!
Direct to college- Materials Engineering.
Washington resident, 1520 SAT, 3.7GPA, plus extras…
Yay!
Edit: NOT Direct to College (Engineering). Bummer! I guess it’s Cal Poly for DS. = )
My son just checked and he’s been accepted! Direct to college -music major! Double major/music performance and music education. Had a great audition! 3.98 GPA The long wait is finally over!
Congrats @mmichelleplus5!! That’s great!! We found our own kind of relief, and where we didn’t expect it.
And in the process, there was one of those little confirmations that, just maybe, my wife and I as parents may have actually done a couple things right. Our son came to us yesterday and told us he was announcing his choice… and yes, before hearing from UW. Apparently UW had fallen to #3 on his list because of its size. While he’d only casually mentioned it a couple times before, he determined that it was just too much of a factor.
He also realized this meant he should make his final decision, since all his other choices were early decision schools who’s last acceptance announcement he got over two months ago. So he informed us that - for the last 7 days - he’s been secretly doing a lot of deeper dive research on his final two picks, with zero consideration of UW.
Apparently, these two share an almost endless number of similarities. But in the end, Santa Clara Univ. won out. Even his tie-breaker reasoning took a surprisingly mature approach that went beyond SCU’s advantage in its academic ranking. It was their stronger positioning for his chosen major. We couldn’t be more proud of him.
And from a timing perspective, he got it in just under the proverbial wire. Ten hours later, we got confirmation from UW that he’d made the right choice. 
@UserNamesUsedUp Congrats! My son got waitlisted and now we are waiting from SCU… It’s brutal…
Per my previous post, this is still a moot point for us, but I have a slight correction (or is it not-so-slight?). UW waitlisted my son as well.
Does anyone know if everyone who is turned down for March acceptance is eligible for waitlisting? Or is there another group of applicants that don’t even qualify for that? Btw, 43k applicants for 7k slots… 16% acceptance rate. Isn’t that approaching some ivies?
For those seeing the acceptance in their portals, is there any financial package information posted?
For those seeing acceptance on the portal, can someone please tell me where that’s located. I can’t seem to find even the application status. Thank you.
Not quite how they calculate acceptance rate, for 2019 they had about 45K applicants with 23K acceptances, which is about 51%. About 7K accept the slot.
@UserNamesUsedUp there is a category of rejection, and one of waitlist.
Anyone else receive an email saying that your decision is available and your status has been updated but the portal wasn’t updated and there is no link of the decision? The only update to the profile say Major: Beginning Autumn 2020: Business Administration, which is what he applied to but there is no official notification. Does this match anyone who was admitted student profile?
Yes, same here. Tell me if you figure it out.
@safiastyle - I’m sure this is my ignorance, but the explanation re. acceptance rate doesn’t compute in my (non-math) brain. You pointed out 2019 as an example, citing 45k applicants and 23k acceptances. But in the very next sentence, you said about 7k accept the slot. So how many freshman received acceptance notifications this time last year for fall 2019, was it 23k or 7k? I’m confused. That said, the final number from your explanation fits with all the national pubs that put it in the range of 48-51%, so clearly I’m looking at something wrong.
But in my defense, the following seemed to me to be pretty straightforward math… in the note that was part of UW’s invitation to be waitlisted. It said, “We received more than 43,000 applications for an expected entering class of 7,000.”
Again, full disclosure with my math-simple brain, but the resulting calculation from that data seems to me to be a slam dunk. If you’ve got 7k slots to fill, you’re locked into not being able to accept more than 7k, right? Ok, and then if you get 43k applications… uh… doesn’t that mean that the acceptance rate is 7 divided by 43 (16%)? You’re only able to accept a max. of 16% of all applications submitted. Isn’t that the very definition of “acceptance rate”?
Just as if you only got 14k apps, and you decided to fill all 7k seats from those 14k apps., wouldn’t the math dictate your acceptance rate just became 50%? This is why I don’t understand where your “23k acceptances” figure is coming from for 2019? I’m sure they didn’t shrink capacity by more than 3x from 2019 to 2020. Thanks in advance for making this clearer, and tolerating my ignorance.
@UserNamesUsedUp they have to admit more students than they have seats because not everyone accepts the offer of admission. UW has a yield of about 33%, so to fill a class of approx. 7K, they need to admit about 21K.
@UserNamesUsedUp When colleges speak of acceptance rates, it’s purely the rate of acceptance, not how many spots are available or how many accept.
Figuring out how many of the Accepted take a spot is a different calculation. They have to factor on their end how many will end up accepting the offer for the available spots they have, and sometimes they miscalculate how many accept in a given year. Some schools are flexible with their enrolment numbers and others are strictly set due to the actual number of beds they have to house freshman. A good example of that is Vanderbilt.
But, back to the original matter of acceptance rate calculation. From a blog on college vine: “Simply put, a college’s acceptance rate is the rate at which applicants are accepted. It is calculated by dividing the number of accepted students by the number of total applicants. For example, if College A has 100,000 applicants and accepts 5,000 students, their acceptance rate is 5%.”
I don’t think I can post the link, but if type in calculating college acceptance rates in Google it should direct you there.
It’s nothing more than a numbers game for a lot of them, touting their low acceptance rate, often meaning they had more applicants in that given year than previous thereby driving their acceptance rate down.
Hope that helps clear things up when referring to Acceptance Rates for colleges.
Hey! Fly over territory kid got in! My son got notification yesterday he’s off the waitlist and been accepted… yay!
Then the painful part (for yours truly)… watching him hit “decline” (per previous message, he decided to attend Boulder anyway). However, always nice to be accepted to the party - even if there’s another you’d rather go to. He just felt the UW campus was a bit too urban and spread out vs. Boulder. That said, UW was his stretch school, so great to know (waitlisted or not) that they wanted him. Best of luck to all of you, and be well!
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