Ah, okay thank you I will be looking out for those.
What major would you recommend?
I’m actually planning on a concentration of physiology within biology…is that a good idea?
Don’t feel bad. College admissions is more competitive than it’s ever been before. All of those exotic schools have an acceptance rate of roughly 5%. After you get to a certain point on grades and scores, it’s impossible to stand out, and it pretty much becomes a lottery. You’re in a good school. Be happy 
http://www.washington.edu/students/gencat/academic/biol.html indicates that admission to the biology majors is competitive at Washington - Seattle.
I read somewhere to give yourself 3 days of being disappointed. After that, move along. It’s a big, beautiful world, and you never know who you are meant to meet at the school you end up at. You sound like a very smart, wise , and likeable person. Youll be more than okay
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics are in high demand and are biology-adjacent.
Keep up the work ethic and get those same high grades at UW.
Will take you places. Now is not the time to slow down.
i’m in the exact same boat. 
it’s definitely tough this year.
and UW Seattle is a great school! I’m Californian and tons of kids from my school apply to/want to go to UW; Seattle is a cool city and great for CS in particular.
Actually, this is a very logical and practical strategy. If you can get a good education at a great price, why consider paying so much for for anything less then your ideal? No reason to keep searching or try for schools that open up in May unless one of your dream schools is on that list or you can get excellent aid. In a few days, you will remember that you were happy about UW and all will be fine. You deserve to be at any school in the country. The problem is so do thousands and thousands of others. Enjoy life. You have great things ahead of you.
@ChubbyPanda , my son is also in-state WA and that’s exactly the strategy we decided to pursue – apply to UW and then load up on OOS reach schools. (He didn’t even apply to UW Bothell or WSU.) Admissions to reach schools are highly unpredictable, so the only way to mitigate is to apply to many of them. If the schools you listed are the only ones you applied to, it seems not enough in quantity.
Another point, as many already pointed out, apply ED if you really love a school. If you are a female applying to Cornell Engineering school in the ED round, your chance of admission is very high.
Aaahhhh yes! Same happened to my DD! Unfortunately, this highly qualifed, high-stat OOS student was REJECTED from her dream school (UW-Seattle)! She was accepted to our state university & some smaller PNW schools & UW-Madison & waitlisted to a couple of more selective schools. Aside from joining the wishful-thinking waitlists, she’s likely going to Wisconsin. I know she’ll love it & will one day forget the immediate sting of rejection. You will too!!
for my D we had a sprinkling of safety, hopeful and reach schools. She wants to study engineering. Her stats are more than good enough for every reach school (34 ACT/taken once, 3.9UW/4.3W GPA, many APs, honors, NHS, etc.) but they are reach for the very reason others have stated - you have to have a hook to get in - and we had none. She loved Cornell, or so she thought. But they took 3 students from her school w/ below avg test scores and GPA - because each filled some bucket for them. The students that got rejected all have better grades, etc. It’s extremely competitive.
All I can say is the rejection sucks. For the kids and for the parents. Everyone questions why you work so hard when it doesn’t seem to matter, etc. But in the end, it does matter. Goods schools do want you to come there. In the end you’ll go to a good school, just like my D, and you’ll excel there. And when you graduate, potential employers will see your confidence, and after your second job no one will really ask where you went to school to begin with…
If your AP scores are good UW will take most if not all of them. My friend’s daughter had similar outcome to you. She ended up at UW and with so many APs she was able to finish early save a ton of money and went to the grad school of her choice.
“But they took 3 students from her school w/ below avg test scores and GPA - because each filled some bucket for them. The students that got rejected all have better grades, etc.”
My understanding is that some programs/majors are more difficult to get into than others at Cornell. It’s not all stats related.
@doschicos, correct, Cornell admits by school and at least at some schools, faculty are on the adcom, so they would look for different things.
If it makes you feel better, Cornell was more selective this year. only 10.3% of applicants were selected. My daughters school makes them apply to 10 schools because you never know who will accept.
I hope you’re still reading this thread, OP. I just want to join the chorus of those who want to correct your evaluation that you did something wrong in applying to those reach schools. You’re more than qualified to be considered at each of them. And I hope you read the post by the parent whose daughter’s “reach” school was UW (and she didn’t get in). For most students in Washington state, it’s not a safety. We are in Washington state at a very competitive public high school, and a few years ago half of the valedictorians ended up there.
I agree with many other posts above. From what I have heard (mostly on this web site) admissions was brutal this year. As hard as you have worked to try to get into those reach schools, the resulting great stats have gotten you into UW Seattle, which is itself a great school (UW Bothell I don’t know). All of this work that you have put in will also make you a better student when you arrive at UW, and possibly give you some AP credits going in.
There was one post somewhere above that suggested that you might have wanted to apply to more match schools. I don’t agree with this. UW Seattle is a great university. If you are in-state for UW (which was my impression), then I don’t see any point in applying to any other school which is only almost as good as UW. Given how good a school this is, this mean that only a few really tippy top schools are left to apply to as reaches. Sometimes a safety can be a really great university, and in this case it is.
Spend a day or two or three to be disappointed with the rejections that you got, then get yourself a large ice cream sundae and congratulate yourself on the fact that you are well prepared and are going to a really great university.
Eeyore123, some Match schools for a student in this range, Boston College, Colgate, Bates, Smith, NYU, Kenyon, Connecticut College, Bryn Mawr, Brandeis, Mount Holyoke, Holy Cross, Union, BU, Skidmore.
Many with 4.0 gpa and 1550+ SAT denied from UCLS and Berkeley. It all depends on your major and hooks. OTOH have seen many kids able to transfer to UCLA from CCs with 3.5gpa in non-competitive majors.
“But they took 3 students from her school w/ below avg test scores and GPA - because each filled some bucket for them. The students that got rejected all have better grades, etc.”
Cornell sends out “diversity letters” about a week before Ivy day. At my dd’s competitive high school, 53 kids applied, 3 got in ED (one white girl and 2 white boys), 5 got in through “diversity program” (2 Latinas and 3 african american girls) and one got in RD (Asian american girl).