<p>I read somewhere on their school statistics thing that they have a 57% acceptance rate! How can that be if UW (Seattle) is such a "hard to get in" school??
Are they referring to the other 2 campuses or just the Seattle campus itself??</p>
<p>99% sure it’s just the seattle campus itself. and yes, it still is a decently hard school to get into</p>
<p>It’s only referring to the Seattle campus.</p>
<p>Who ever said UW is hard to get into? Sure, ever since cutthroat, UC-aspiring kids in California (not saying you’re one of those, but I see a crapload of them around, usually complaining about the weather) collectively “discovered” it as a pretty decent/close-by safety, the acceptance rate has been going down a couple percentage points every year. But it has always been an easy school to get into compared to other big state schools (UCs, UNC, UM-CP, UIUC, etc)</p>
<p>The average admitted GPA is fairly high while the SAT score is still <2000. SAT IIs and LORs are not only not required, but expressly discouraged. Unless you’re aiming for CSE or BME as your major, UW is cake.</p>
<p>The acceptance rate is deceiving. UW is really looking for students with high GPAs who excelled academically throughout high school. You will most likely not be admitted if you are an average/slightly above average student. I have a feeling its acceptance rate will continue to experience a steady decline over the next few years.</p>
<p>The average student admitted to UW probably receives around a B+ average.</p>
<p>This is an awkward position between the outstanding A average students who are focused on bigger fish and the less impactful B average students that may be focusing on less selective state schools. </p>
<p>However, due to it’s academic program strength it piques the interest of both groups of students. So for more qualified students it may be a safety school, but for others it may be a bit more difficult to receive admittance to.</p>
<p>Let it be understood that I’m not trying to underwrite the achievements of any student in this post.</p>
<p>thanks for the information :D</p>
<p>according to a news article, the reason why the acceptance is so high is that a lot of kids have UW as their safety school, thus lowering the yield date to around 42%. Although UW accepts 65% of their applicants, less than half of these accept the offer. Contrast this to a top school like stanford whose yield rate is around 75%. If UW has the same yield rate as stanford, the UW acceptance rate would be around 43%. </p>
<p>In state has a much higher accept rate than OOS. In state is around 70%. OOS is much lower.</p>
<p>Anyone think that the admit rate will continue to drop over the next decade? It would be nice to say you graduated from that school and the admit rate is like, 20%.</p>
<p>People are dodging the University of Californias for some reason. I heard it has to do with how the money is distributed there or something. So yeah, even more Californians to Washington.</p>
<p>Does anyone know exactly how low OOS acceptance rates are? And like if their stats are higher than in state students who applied? I’m guessing they are :/</p>
<p>I would have liked to apply to UW-Seattle and get accepted, though the school was across the country for me but more importantly I couldn’t find any sorta of possible scholarships I could get to make the school affordable. UW-Seattle seems to be a fantastic school etc…</p>
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<p>This is a source of controversy in CA but it doesn’t translate to more kids coming up to Washington. It’s more of something to just complain about at the water cooler. I doubt any parents are saying “I’ll pay OOS tuition to have my kid go to Washington just so I can stick it to the state of CA”.</p>
<p>Yes, us Seattleites love complaining about the California Invasion of the 90s. I mean, it DID make traffic pretty ****ing awful around here, and made it so that I won’t afford a house in my home neighborhood until I’m 45. People who bought real estate here in the 70s are swimming in moolah now. But UW’s student population is still overwhelmingly in-state and it doesn’t look like that’s ever going to change in a drastic way.</p>