<p>My son is thinking of transfering to UW, he is at University of Miami now. What are your impressions of UW? The campus, the student body, the professors, classes, the social life? </p>
<p>My son thinks UM is too superficial and is looking for something different...is this the place for him? Will it be hard to transfer as a Junior and meet people?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>The campus is absolutely beautiful. In the spring, when the cherry blossoms bloom, it is simply gorgeous. The student body can be characterized as wearing Northface jackets and carrying Nalgene bottles. A lot of the students here are commuters and from the surrounding Seattle area. Classes are mostly huge lectures --- it is what you would expect of any large state university. The social life is what you make of it - there is a significant Greek presence on campus. </p>
<p>Is your son out-of-state? If so, you might want to consider going to a different university or even your home state university because it is definitely not worth paying the extra 20K or so to attend this place when you could get more resources per individual at another institution.</p>
<p>UW is a great place for finding opportunities and taking advantage of them. If your son is into medical research, physics, oceanography, or a lot of other things, and is willing to put himself out there a bit, he can have a fantastic experience. But, the opportunities will not come looking for him, he has to seek them out.</p>
<p>@gmail is correct, the campus is lovely, it has a large commuter component, and classes are often huge. But by the time you get deeper into your major, they will shrink considerably. What does he want to study?</p>
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Does anyone know where I can find out how large courses can be? At my current university, I was told the same thing... while it's true that my classes have shrank by 100 people or so, they are still considerably large. Sure, of course it might "shrink considerably" -- that's mostly due to the fact that it was ridiculously large in the beginning. If you want to attend UW, make sure that there is an insanely strong incentive that bypasses "academic quality" (large lecture halls, professors who care only about research, impersonal atmosphere). While it's true that there is more to the college experience than academics, what you are paying for is academics. Your college experience is whatever you make of it, assuming we're not in extreme environments (e.g. Bob Jones University).</p>
<p>If you want to find out about class sizes, just seach for the time schedule on the school website. It will show the max class size for each class.</p>
<p>I found the time schedule, just enter a quarter and then a class type, it will then give u the number of student currently in the class and the max size. hope this helps people who aren't real friendly with google, or lazy</p>
<p>Okay, thanks basketb926.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how difficult it is to transfer to UW? I've seen the acceptance rate around 50% but what concerns me is that a lot of these transfers are from Washington state community colleges. Does anyone know how difficult it is to transfer to UW from a non-CC as a WA resident?</p>
<p>Bring up my post.</p>