<p>@Dunnin - could be… 
As far as I know though they just can’t understand why I want to turn down two universities that accepted me already.
My mom is a Cougar fan and she sorta made me apply to WSU, and now she tells me everyday how great it would be if I’d go there. Generally, my whole family are Coug fans lol. My brother’s going there and my cousins all went there 
@noimagination - I’ve been to Seattle and visited UDub and I definitely liked it 
I haven’t visited Pullman or Moscow yet. I eventually will but I’m not sure when exactly. Yes, UDub is affordable.
What are some strong things about WSU and the U of Idaho?
I’m really not sure if I’m making the right decision right now… but I think it would be unwise to give up on UDub just yet because I’d have to spend another year at a CC - which would be cheaper anyways.
I’m in-state, living pretty close to Vancouver but I have family members in Olympia and Tacoma.</p>
<p>If you got into WSU this year, chances are unless you tank you’ll get in next year.</p>
<p>Were I you, I’d stay put and try to attend University of Washington next year. If it’s your drea - and I can certainly understand that, being that it’s in Seattle and it’s a great big awesome flagship university - then go for it! It’s not like you’re giving up your chance to transfer to a 4-year university at all; you could always go to Washington State next year and you’ve got the upside of saving even more money.</p>
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They’ll probably disown you if you go to UDub, so be aware that you stand to lose any inheritance you might have been hoping to receive from their will.</p>
<p>Just kidding 
Well, both are residential campuses - as you’d expect, since they’re in the middle of nowhere. The Palouse region is very pretty, as you will see when you visit. Both schools have strong alumni communities - Idaho in particular; Vandals take care of their own. If you are uncomfortable with the idea of attending a very large school, Idaho is on the smaller side for a state flagship. Outdoor rec options are good at both. Academically, WSU has a few very strong programs - communications, veterinary, architecture, CivE, advertising - but otherwise both are comparable and, while good enough for pre-law, not on the same level as UDub.
I’m inclined to agree with you. Yes, you won’t get the full freshman experience, but it’s not like you couldn’t end up at WSU as a CC transfer.</p>
<p>If UDub is your dream, then almost by definition, you would not be happy at Wazzu. And if Seattle appeals to you, then almost by definition, you wouldn’t like Pullman. This is one case where the two schools, and the two locales, are not interchangeable.</p>
<p>WSU has a number of strong programs; veterinary medicine, for one. But even my WSU-alum brothers admit that UW is by far the better school overall.</p>
<p>BTW, are you thinking you want to go to UW Law School? When I was going to school there (many years ago), people believed that UW doesn’t seem to like to admit its own graduates to the Law School. I don’t know if that’s true, but it’s something to check into. If your dream really focuses on UW Law, then you might need to get your undergraduate degree somewhere else. Or you could do your undergrad at UW and then go to law school at one of the other very good schools in the Puget Sound area, like Seattle U or University of Puget Sound.</p>
<p>LasMas, didn’t the U of Puget Sound School of Law merge and dissapear (fold) into the then-new Seattle University School of Law in the 1990s? As I understand it, SU purchased all of UPS Law assets. SU had no law program prior to that.</p>
<p>Incidentally, UPS law was very strong program and its alumni went head to head in hiring with newly minted grads from UW law. UPS law had a very strong reputation among the largest and most lucurative laws firms in the state. Don’t know what was the motivation for closing the UPS law school.</p>
<p>LW, I defer to you; it’s been 20 years since I left Seattle, and as I hope I made clear, I’m not current on the eductional goings-on up there. So does this mean that UW and Seattle U are the only places one can get a law degree in the greater Puget Sound area? And is it still the case that UW tends not to admit its own undergrads into the Law School?</p>
<p>Yes, the only fully acredited law schools in western Washington are Seattle University and the U of Washington.</p>
<p>As for the lack of UW bachelor degree holders among the law school student body, it’s debatable. Some aggrieved UW Law applicants complaint that the UW is overly concerned about being perceived as “a national” law school, hence the many admits from various colleges from around the nation. Very different from the medical school, where state residents are given priority in admissions. On the other hand, I know at least one alumnae of a top 20 law school whom was denied admission to UW Law, despite having decent (but not stellar grades) from her Ivy League alma mater. Public regard for the bureaucratic UW Law school has always been a mixed bag. At one time students used to get really annoyed by the fact that the Law School prominently published pronouncements in official school publications about how rarely an “A” grade was given for coursework, because it was ‘rarely deserved,’ according to the administration. Jeez, who’d want to ever matriculate at a place with an attitude such as that?</p>
<p>@ juillet - thank you! </p>
<p>@ noimagination - haha yeah, let’s hope they’ll become husky fans instead.
Nice! Thank you for the comparison! =) Jupp, I know… maybe I can catch up on all the things that I’m going to miss out on in grad school </p>
<p>@LasMa - thank you! =) No, I just want to get my undergrad at UW and then go to law school at the University of Florida, because I heard from my cousin who’s also a lawyer that you have to stay in the state where you go to grad school at and I really want to move to Florida, since that’s where my family will move to.
I’m not sure if this is still relevant since my cousin went to law school more than twenty years ago, but I’m not sure.</p>
<p>@ LakeWashington - My cousin graduated from the law school at the University of Puget Sound but as far as I know from her Seattle Pacific U was the one that bought the law school from UPS, not Seattle U.</p>
<p>It was SU and the new law building sits on 12th across from Starbucks.</p>
<p>thank you for clarifying that! :)</p>