<p>BO5TON, you are correct. UW is highly selective.</p>
<p>Really? Hm…well maybe I’ll looking into Western Washington, too.</p>
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<p>I have a friend who was rejected from UCSD and UCLA out-of-state and in at several superelite schools.</p>
<p>“UDub shouldnt be a safety for anyone.”</p>
<p>Please note that <em>I</em> was not suggesting that UW is a safety. I know little about the selectivity of UW. We do not live in Washington. Another poster made that assumption. (I would think, though that a student in the top 10% of their class, an AP Scholar and National Merit Finalist with various state and national academic awards and SATs over 2300 plus good ECs could reasonably regard UW as a safety. If UW is THAT selective, it’s news to me.)</p>
<p>Our state U would definitely be a safety for my S. But it is not a highly-regarded “flagship state u” with strengths in his areas of interest, unlike, just to cite a few, U Michigan Ann Arbor, U Wisconsin Madison, et al.</p>
<p>UW is not our state school either. Here are there 2006 freshman stats. </p>
<p>Of 5400 students:</p>
<p>The freshman class includes 67 National Merit Finalists and Semifinalists.
84% of the freshman class was in the top 10% of its high school graduating class.
High School GPA (Middle 50%) also known as average GPA of the freshman class: 3.50-3.89 </p>
<p>I have no idea how that matches up with other top state schools. I know UW has become increasing selective in the last 10 years or so. Consolation, of course your S will get in most places. UW does attract many top students and have some particular strengths: bioengineering and computer science (lots of Microsoft $) to name a couple.</p>
<p>I’m applying (if I must) to Conn College, Clark U, and GW as safeties.</p>
<p>I’m also applying to USC, Boston College, Emory, Brown, Northwestern and NYU. None of those are safeties, just schools I like.</p>
<p>HOPEFULLY I’ll just get into Yale though :-)</p>