<p>I have a tough choice ahead of me, should I go to Tacoma Community College and transfer to UW-Seattle after a year or two? or go to UW-Tacoma and then try and transfer to UW-Seattle? does one give me a better chance over another?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>If you’re certain you want to transfer to UW-Seattle, then I would suggest saving money and attending a community college for two years. I’ve heard it’s much easier to get admitted as a CC transfer than from a four-year university.</p>
<p>Best of luck! </p>
<p>@noahhowins </p>
<p>As a successful transfer student, I highly encourage you to attend a community college if your ultimate goal is to attend UW Seattle.
UW Seattle gives priority to in-state community college transfers over 4-Year & OOS transfers.
If you desire to attend UW Seattle in less than 2 years, that is possible as well.
I applied with only 50 credits (1 Full Year + 1 Quarter). </p>
Seconding what others have already said: going to a community college will give you a greater chance of transferring into UW-Seattle than if you attend a 4-year college (such as UW-Tacoma).
You will generally have to spend the full 2 years at the community college (UW much prefers CC students with 90 credits), but as long as you do well, your chances of admission are good to excellent (depending on how well you do, of course). The same cannot be said of transfers from 4-year colleges…chances there are kind of a crapshoot.