Yeah, @jbafny - that’s the way the departmental info page reads to me - but hoping our long-suffering participant from Admissions can confirm and/or clarify. Especially since we are looking at OOS tuition, a DA offer would occupy a very, VERY different place in my D’s final decision tree than a pre-engineering offer would. She truly loves the UW, but the steep and stressful path to departmental admissions vs. OOS cost does not add up from the parent point of view. 
Is there a reason in the choice of people who already got accepted?? It just doesn’t seem very random…
I’m sorry if I sound clueless but what does HCDE and DA stand for? Thanks so much! I am also waiting on a UW decision. However, cost is also a major factor for a decision for me as well as my parents especially considering that the University of Connecticut, my state school, has given me a scholarship and it costs significantly less than OOS tuition at UW.
I have a feeling that the people who were accepted received the Purple and Gold Scholarship. That’s the only thing that I can think of because we know its not alphabetical order, nor by major, nor by what time you applied, so the only thing I can think of is the first batch of people accepted received a scholarship?
I was accepted and found out by going to the enrollment page. When I pressed to confirm my enrollment, it brought me to a page that declared I had been offered admission and briefed me on payment of the deposit. I would suggest doing that instead of banking on the transcript trick because the enrollment page will actually say “First Name Last Name, you have been offered admission.”
@ThingOfLegend Where exactly did you go on the portal?
@ThingOfLegend did your portal change? Mine changed. It says “Husky Card & Dining” on the right, and a box that says “To Register For Classes” in the middle. im hoping this is a good sign
@Sandy12345 HCDE is the Human Centered Design & Engineering major. DA refers to direct (freshman) admission to the major. If you’re not applying to an impacted major (not sure if UW calls it that, but that’s the UC System term) then you don’t need to worry direct-admit issues.
For students who want HCDE, Informatics, Computer Science, Business, etc… getting in as a pre-major means you then have to compete to get into your major, with very high GPA’s required and many majors admitting 30% of applicants or less. For me as a parent, it’s one thing to get a bargain on a great education but pay the price in terms of competition for resources - then it can be a fair trade-off. But to pay top dollar and still have stress and uncertainty about being able to access the education you wanted… that’s where I’m dubious.
Good luck with your decision! It’s hard to balance cost against the many tangibles and intangibles that make a college feel right for you.
@BrianJoo when did you find this? have you kept refreshing the page or it may just had been updated last night??
i found out this morning. yesterday my uw portal looked much more different. I asked a friend who currently attends uw he told me that my portal now looked like his.
@scubadiverman http://admit.washington.edu/Welcome/International/Confirm and then clicked “Freshmen: Confirm Enrollment” under the picture, but you have to already be logged into your UW NetID.
@BrianJoo I don’t think my portal changed, but might be looking in the wrong place?
@ThingOfLegend ah okay
@scubadiverman I’m not 100% sure why the link says international because I was not an international applicant? But that’s how I got there.
Do you just click on: Freshman Application Autumn quarter 2017 to check the status?
Let me clarify real quick, click the link and find the hyperlink that says MyUW Decision and click that and then you’re there.
Let me clarify real quick, click the link and find the hyperlink that says MyUW Decision and click that and then you’re there.
@ThingOfLegend Sorry. Which link are you referring too?
Ugh. Mine only shows Uw bothell when I click the link… Does this mean I didnt get in?
when I click that link it says “You don’t have any offers of admission eligible to be confirmed.” Do you guys think that is a bad sign?