<p>If you get wait listed or rejected, what are your options? Any are appreciated, even if obscure and not common. UW is my top choice so I am willing to go any route but I want to know the quickest one so that I can spend the most time at UW possible. Please and thank you.</p>
<p>One door closes another opens. It works for me.</p>
<p>It you’re in-state spend time at your local community college and transfer back into UW.</p>
<p>^ what he said. That was my plan if i didnt get accepted (but i did). You save lots of money and just have to get like a 3.0 college grades and you should be good. It’s actually not a bad route to go at all. Just miss a year of the “college experience.”</p>
<p>My main problem is that it would be more like two years instead. Considering that I want to study abroad in Japan in my junior year meaning that I would need to apply for it in my sophomore year, I don’t know if that is even possible. Plus, I want study engineering which is abysmal at CC and if I want to get into the more competitive programs like CSE, it wouldn’t be possible. Are my goals out of reach or is there another way around?</p>
<p>I actually know someone who went to a community college and took the pre-reqs for Electrical Engineering and now he has transferred into the Mechanical Engineering department at UW.</p>
<p>FYI you need <em>much</em> higher then 3.0 college grades at community college to transfer.</p>
<p>So what would you do considering my specific situation?</p>
<p>A year of CC (you need at least that), take calc i-iii (unless you did AP, then do the higher math which they have), and take the physics prereqs (the first sequence or whatever you need – CHECK THE EQUIVALENCY GUIDE). It’s not as abysmal as you say, and UW doesn’t discriminate against CC classes, by the way. Get a 3.5-4.0 and you’ll do fine transferring in. That IS the quickest option. If you have less than 45 transfer credits (1 year), you have to apply as a freshman, which you already did, and the chances of their decision changing next year are pretty low. There will probably be even more applicants next year.</p>
<p>Didn’t have the time to read above posts so I apologize if what I say happens to be a repeat… I had two backup plans. </p>
<p>A. One of which was to attend a local community college. I wasn’t going to let anything get in my way of pursing my dream. Either way I was going to continue on with my education and then transfer to UW as soon as possible.</p>
<p>B. The other was to take a year off from educational studying and take a year of experiential learning such as jobs and volunteering. Then re-apply the same time next year.</p>
<p>pumkin’s option B is a good point as well. One thing I’d like to say about that, saxman, is that it’s not as guaranteed as community college with a good GPA. They may not feel that the work experience was sufficient enough to grant you admission, and you would have to do a year of CC then.</p>