<p>This is an email that was sent out by the department chair today:</p>
<p>"I just wanted to tell you that over the next few years we expect to be
growing the program, as the result of the legislation that was recently
signed, which instructs UW to provide funds to increase enrollments in
engineering and computer science. This means well be hiring more
faculty over the next few years, which will allow us to teach more CSE
courses both existing courses and new courses. I cant give you exact
numbers we havent worked that out yet, but well definitely be growing
the bachelors program and the 5th year masters program. Of course, the
demand for our program is enormous, and unfortunately, we still wont be
able to meet that demand, but we will be able to take more deserving
students per year than we do today. This wont happen all at once, since
we need a little time to get new people on board and ramped up.</p>
<p>hank</p>
<p>CSE Department Chair"</p>
<p>So if you didn't get in through direct admission and are disheartened by the 25-30% upper admission acceptance rate, know that it'll be going up soon enough.</p>