@GoodGrief16 Mine does that too! And when you click on International Student Services (ISS) it takes you to a page that says Welcome, New Students! …does this mean we’re in?
Perhaps 
Watch for that gold envelope!
I have those tabs on my portal too but I don’t think they mean anything since the tab to get there says “After you’ve been admitted”. Let us know if anyone finds anything else though that could be a good indication!!
I want to believe it to, but you can access those links without logging into myUW
Not sure about the unofficial transcript thing
I saw last year in the forum that a lot of people’s portals were updated before they got the letter later in March
Guys, it’s not a sign of acceptance. I believe it’s just less complicated for the portal to be set up that way and your unofficial transcript loading is the thing that will give you a sign.
Can anyone run DARS (Degree Audit)?
It does display my major and I can run it, but it does not display my credits.
When I try to load my Unofficial Transcript (which takes longer than usual), I am redirected to a page that says “500 - Internal server error”. I am pretty sure that the “First Year Program” and the “International Student Service” pages are not signs of acceptance though…
@skywalker11 my transcript gives me the same error message. Anyone else’s not give this error message?
I think currently all are getting the same error. Also I read last year discussion and there were cases when transcript loaded a few days after they received the acceptance letter.
That is a generic webpage. Anyone can reach that page. On the CC forum for UW last year, many students thought they got accepted when they saw the “Congratulations on your acceptance page”. I can reach that page through the UW website. This does not mean you are accepted from UW.
@mnrwa778 I have the same message! I was hoping there was a sign of acceptance through the first-year programs.
can you run DARS ?
@hitrusha what’s DARS?
@hitrusha Where do you find DARS on the portal?
Click on academics on the left side of your portal
If you look up “University of Washington Portal” on google the second option says “myplan”. Does anyone else say they are registered for Winter 2016?
I don’t see anything that says degree audit. Any specifications as for what to click? 
@cf9882 mine says that and I can access DARS
Degree Audit under Academics.
I can access DARS.