<p>I'm a competitive in-state student looking for out-of-state schools. I'll be applying to HYPSM, but is it too risky to think of UW as a safety school? This is the only in-state school I am interested in.</p>
<p>UW's my safety school, but I'm also a transfer student and realize admission is somewhat less competitive, especially in-state. Still, if you have stats that warrant applying to HYPS, I think UW can def. be considered an appropriate safety.</p>
<p>I'll take the contrary view and say that with the holistic admissions process they've been doing for the past 2 years, the Seattle campus of UW is a safety for no one. Bothell and Tacoma, for a competitive in-state student, yes.</p>
<p>A safety for no one? I understand this applies to schools such as the ivies, where the vast majority of applicants are extremely well qualified (4.0's often only the beginning), but could this be the case at UW? Don't get me wrong, I would still be happy to go to UW, but I feel like it's prestige and selectivity are inflated in the Seattle/Washington area. Maybe b/c it's the state's flagship? Good school, but it's only T50. Also, the holistic admissions process can work to one's advantage just as easily as not in making UW a safety; such is the case for me.</p>
<p>UW is a decent school, but I too think that its prestige is overestimated not only in Washington, but in the entire Northwest because it is only in the Top 50 school in the region.</p>
<p>This may not be relevent to some, but the way I see it, I view its "66%" acceptance rate as an "easy" school to get into.</p>
<p>i think UW could be considered a safety school, especially for an in-state student. although it is difficult to get into, the acceptance rate is still 68%. UW is my safety-ish school. im applying to eastern as my super safety. or maybe western.</p>
<p>When I visited last year they gave out pamphlet that showed admission by GPA. Well over 90%, maybe even 95% or higher were accepted if their GPA was above a 3.9 (don't know what yours is, but if you are applying to HPYSM, I assume it's decent). If you have SAT over 2000 and GPA over 3.6 (arbitrary), I'd say you could call it a safety.</p>
<p>I guess I'm just trying to say that no one should take admission to UW for granted. There are more applicants than slots available, high-achieving kids who want to stay in state will <em>all</em> apply there, as it is the best university in the state. With the holistic admissions, kids who perhaps used to be on the bottom edge of automatic admission based on scores (and would get in) are now looked at next to kids who perhaps don't have quite the scores but have other things going for them: ECs, volunteerism, compelling family/personal circumstances. By making room for those kids, those marginal previous automatic admits can possibly be pushed aside.</p>