^ And all of those “many exceedingly talented and hardworking former vals, etc. [you know]” can fit on the head of a pin.
@LucieTheLakie I’ll amend my advice to: “Perhaps the advice for a student with ‘similar stats’ who applies but is not admitted to Washington’s CS major directly should be to accept your admission offer from Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, etc. (or if the cost is less and cost is a factor for you, your admission offer from your instate public university, especially if it is UCB, UIUC, Washington, Georgia Tech, Texas, Wisconsin, Michigan, UCLA, UCSD, Maryland, Purdue, etc.).”