UW Engineering as a Running Start Student?

I recently attended a UW campus tour and info session, and during the questions and answers portion of the final presentation, was told that UW’s engineering program (specifically) does not award credit for completion of an associate’s degree earned through Running Start to get junior standing in the program. Does anyone have any experience with this and how it worked out for you? UW was going to be my safety school, but now I’m not so sure that I would want to attend if I was accepted, especially considering that even if you are accepted into the engineering program, there’s no guarantee that you will be permitted to complete a degree in the major you intended, and you would have burned through two years of federal financial aid.