<p>UW-Seattle apparently isn't sending admissions letters until mid-late March. I got into the three other schools I applied to, but I really want to go to UW. However, if I don't get in, it'll screw me over for the other schools because housing fees are due at some before UW even lets you know if you got in...</p>
<p>Is there anything I can do? I don't want to apply for housing at other schools, find out that I got into UW, and then lose money.</p>
<p>You could try contacting one of the admission officers, but I doubt they’ll tell you anything.</p>
<p>You’re probably out of luck, unfortunately.</p>
<p>Are they huge deposits? I was reading about another school, possibly USC, and they required a $40 deposit. If it’s something like that, $40 isn’t too bad. It’s worth having some insurance knowing you can get priority housing if you do end up going to a school that isn’t UW. I would call the schools and see what your options are. But most likely, I think I would just put the housing fee down for my 1st choice school out of the 3 you’ve been accepted to if you haven’t heard from UW yet. Better safe than sorry right?</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I do understand your problem! I’m going to face pretty much the same problem soon. I’m a transfer student and if I get admitted into WSU (and I’m 90% sure I will), I will have to pay $200 by May 1st to WSU to reserve my spot (and to about june 1st for others). I won’t get a letter from UW until mid-June, however… I think you better send your deposit to your second-choice school in which you have been admitted just to make sure that you won’t spend another year out of school.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice, everyone. All of the schools seem to have around a $250 refundable deposit, with a $50 non-refundable fee. The worst school (as far as reputation and everything goes) I forgot to fill out their scholarship forms and plus, it was too expensive for me to go there anyway probably. So, I guess I can just submit housing to the other two schools. I’ll lose $100 but I suppose that’s college for you…</p>
<p>So sorry about that 
It’s so unfair how expensive college is. I think by then you will have an idea where you’d like to go if you don’t get into UW though. So perhaps you can just put the deposit down for your 2nd choice and save $50. Fingers crossed for you!</p>
<p>Well, unfortunately, you cannot know anything until the middle of March. It’s a policy UW has.</p>
<p>“The worst school (as far as reputation and everything goes)”</p>
<p>Seattle U?</p>
<p>What’s really funny to me is that I got into 5 schools better than Seattle U and was rejected from Seattle U. Blew my mind. I still don’t get why…</p>
<p>i think the decision will be out sometime this month if u r accepted. in march they will let u know if you got into honors program or not (that is if u applied for it)</p>
<p>Decisons are not supposed to come out until march 15-30… Honors decisons will come out early April. </p>
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<p>@xaviFM: Haha, Portland State actually. I applied because it was close to me and in the city basically. Their grad rate is only 21% though and their retention is pretty bad as well. </p>
<p>I’ve gotten into UOregon, Portland State U, and Eastern Washington U. I would love to attend UO but I don’t think I can afford it even with the 16k scholarship I got because I’m OOS and my major I want doesn’t qualify me for WUE rates. Eastern is appealing because it’s so cheap. Not a great school though. UW is the perfect balance. Good school, not too expensive, not too far away, and in the city.</p>
<p>Yeah, UW is a far better academic school than UO as well. What’s WUE?</p>
<p>Yeah, I got rejected from Seattle U and accepted at UW, WSU, UPS, Whitman and Columbia… To me there’s something wrong with that picture.</p>
<p>I really even applied to Seattle U as a convenience fallback since I lived in the same zip code and could walk there from my home, but I put all my work into it as hard as I could.</p>
<p>WUE = Western Undergraduate Exchange</p>
<p>If the school and major you want are participating, you can pay 150% of the in-state tuition rate.</p>
<p>Post #10- where are you getting your information? It would probably be more helpful if you posted correct information on this board.</p>
<p>^I agree with ghuskies. Your information is not coherent with what is posted on the official UW website. Decisions with come out between March 15-30 with the honor’s decision sometime after that in April.</p>
<p>@portableheart
Have you tried contacting the housing assignment offices of the schools you got accepted into? My housing contract to the University of Wisconsin-Madison is due at a ridiculously early date of March 1st, and so I contacted them, and they said that I could turn in the contract for now, and if I decide not to go to Wisc, then I can contact them by May 1 saying so and they’d cancel the contract and refund all housing deposits/prepayments. I’m not sure if this is the same policy at other schools though.</p>