<p>Ya… im pretty sure there are other people who have been accepted off the waitlist as well, we just dont know about it… also if it wasnt for returning to tell us about his sis then we would all be sitting here wondering what the hell the admisions office will do to waitlistees… i feel ur frustration udubwaiting and im a bit jelous as well but this is a good sign for us and i hope we eventually all get in.</p>
<p>returning2uw, it is not a fluke. I just received the same email this morning. I thought it could be another UCSD mishap, but I got the exact email and like your sister I sent the waitlist form as soon as I got it back. My stats are
California private school student
3.5 UW GPA
1990 SAT
630 Math II/620 Literature
1000 Community service hours, multiple leadership positions, and all city track honors</p>
<p>Whee first post! I also confirm what MarkyMark2 and returning2uw said: I also received an email this afternoon titled “University of Washington Admission Decision”. I was really confused because they just sent me a letter on Friday (I think) for waitlist confirmation. I sent in the waitlist form about 3-4 days after I got the waitlist decision back. I didn’t really do any crazy gimmicks, but I did write on the card provided (since Washington specifically tells you not to send in additional information). I said that University of Washington was my first choice and that I was sincerely hoping to go in the fall. I also drew a purple “W” on the plain waitlist envelope and "#1"s and put glittery balloon stickers on it. My friends made fun of me when I told them, but hey! it worked: accepted!
My stats are
Large public school from California
3.46 UW GPA
2130 SAT
730 Biology/730 Literature
Commissioner of Publicity in Student Government, Choir President, heavily involved in church, went on teaching trips to Bangladesh and rural China, etc etc</p>
<p>stephkneee and markymark2, congrats that’s awesome! are you guys gonna be able to afford the out of state tuition? i know it has been going up, hopefully it doesn’t ruin your chances 
i really hope you guys are the start of a huge wave of acceptances; since they got all waitlist forms by last friday, and original enrollment will be done this friday, they must know that they are going to need waitlistees…i have pretty good stats like your guys’ so i hope you are a sign of things to come haha</p>
<p>LOL steph thats pretty funny i wish i had done something like that.</p>
<p>it seems like UW is admitting more OOS students considoring they pay more than instate students. i hope they start taking instate students off the waitlist list.</p>
<p>well maybe, but i think at this point they are just going with the best. with the tuition increases it is ok to admit in-state students now. plus i have heard that out of state financial aid isn’t that great, but if they do need to give it they wont even be getting much more from that oos person than an in-state…i think these people were just lucky to be in the first wave</p>
<p>well hopefully after may 1st thy start accepting alot of people. good luck to u mcf11 u definitly deserve to get in as well as everyone else whos waiting.</p>
<p>thanks esp, you too. i hope we all get what we’re wishing for.</p>
<p>sup guys, also got in off the waitlist today. same email. </p>
<p>my stats if u were wondering were
3.35 Gpa, largest private school west of mississippi
4 honors, 4 aps
2190 SAT
780 math 2, 740 chem
National merit semi finalist
3 sport athlete
I dont know if I am going to attend though for multiple reasons. For one, I have a 20k scholarship to LMU, and have already committed there. Secondly, I am somewhat “salty” because I didn’t get into UW when many of my lesser qualified peers were. On the other hand, UW was my #1 school since freshman year and I even told them that. Thoughts?</p>
<p>I believe UW OOS tuition is going to increase thats all i can say but if u really want to go to UW id go for it if you dont mind paying a little bit more money.</p>
<p>Rarara, please don’t make a decision about the UW just because you were initially waitlisted. Everyone takes this so personally, and a school with as many applications as the UW had (and probably an understaffed admissions office)-they are just a big machine, probably only spending a few minutes on every application. You may decide to go elsewhere, but you can’t possibly make such a huge decision on the basis of initially feeling rejected. You will forget about your annoyance in 2 weeks, now that you are accepted!</p>
<p>rarara- are you in-state or out? just curious, and idk how much lmu costs but would you still be paying about the same amount, or is it a huge difference?</p>
<p>Well I’m glad that UW is taking kids off the waitlist. It is interesting that seemingly only OOS students are getting in right now. I wonder what this means?</p>
<p>yeah i noticed that too. pretty much it means uw wants money, so they are taking out of state kids off of the waitlist first because they pay so much more.</p>
<p>So having held my peace for all of today and seen more people getting accepted off the waitlist with emails today and yesterday, I am even more angry about how UW is handling this:
From what I see :
- there are a bunch of UW admission people who now having nothing to do because all the early acceptance letters etc are now done and finished and the deposit money is safely in the bank prior to 1st May.</p>
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<li>to cover their asses they put a huge load of very worthy candidates on a waitlist without anybody knowing how many were on that waitlist.</li>
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<p>-UW then told all the waitlist people to wait until June to find out what might happen to them. (liars) Oh and get your parent to to pay hundreds of dollars as deposits to your safeguard school. </p>
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<li>now it seems that if you sent back your waitlist acceptance letter by overnight mail you are getting preferential treatment when the admin people are looking to select and notify people off the waitlist. Your file is at the top of the list or may be not ???
What happens to those people who might have delayed sending back their waitlist acceptance form for a few weeks ( or days, or hours) because of work, vacations, illness, lack of time, who freaking knows ?</li>
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<p>If a University is giviing out waitlist acceptances on the basis of first come first served I don’t want to go there.</p>
<p>I am sure there are people like me who worked their asses off over 4 years to get very good grades and scores etc etc but when I see on here others TODAY who are way dumber than I am, already packing their bags to go to SEA, I just say to myself " hey you guys at UW, your admin process is sucking big time, just let more dummies in " </p>
<p>One of the colleges my friend applied to was UCSB. Their application process was simple. At a specific date and time, FOR ALL APPLICANTS, you logged on to their web site and with yr unique id number they told you whether you were accepted or not. End of story. UCI say to ALL their waitlisters “We will tell you yes or no by May 14th” End of story.</p>
<p>No wonder the Wa state politicians don’t want to give any $$$ to UW. May be they realise their admin functions are incredibly inefficient, their professors overpaid, their support services bloated with too many workers.</p>
<p>If you read the UW Presidents latest blog and the comments following at least one UW prof has had the cojones to stand up and say "how about some voluntary pay cuts for the academic staff " I stand up and applaud him. Watch for him to get fired in a years time.</p>
<p>At the same time fire all the idiots in the admissions dept and start over with a staff like the UC system seems to have.</p>
<p>udubwaiting- i totally feel your pain and frustration here. frankly, seeing some people on here who got in and other people i know the first time around, not off of the waitlist, it makes me so mad because i too have worked incredibly hard my entire life–i started taking accelerated classes in 6th grade! then there are these people who don’t do s*** and they get in? bull. my mom finally got through to a counselor (after a week and a half of “we will respond in 48 hours” since they wouldnt give me answers) who said that for original apps and waitlist confimations, it doesnt matter when you turn them in. for waitlist, fine because there was only a small time window to turn them in, like 3 weeks to a month? but on the original apps, i applied november 5 and she said it doesnt matter because they look at everything randomly, so basically implying that my app was looked at after pretty much all other apps. its rediculous. i am actually starting to write another e-mail to the counselor i have been communicating with because he said he is open to any other questions i have, and he actually wants to help. i’m basically going to ask, in nicer terms, when uw decided to let in a ton of out of state people from the waitlist a month before they said anyone would know anything, and think they could get away with it, especially when there are so many other people with higher statistics. looking on the threads here, its incredible that some of us didn’t get in on regular admissions, and now they are giving preferential treatment to those who give them more money? please. they tell us for 12 years in school to always do the right thing, but they hypocritically do the wrong thing.</p>
<p>Mcf says >>>i’m basically going to ask, in nicer terms, when uw decided to let in a ton of out of state people from the waitlist a month before they said anyone would know anything, and think they could get away with it, especially when there are so many other people with higher statistics<<</p>
<p>May be working at a church gets you in first …who knows ;)…</p>
<p>Has anybody got a pastor who can write a quick letter of reco for me ?</p>
<p>hahah i’m a confirmed catholic, should i have written that on my application? haha but i will definitely put on here whatever i find out from my admissions counselor. if anyone else wants to, maybe if they get a number of calls, e-mails and such then they will release more information, realizing they have been so incredibly unfair and confusing to us through this whole thing.</p>
<p>WOW…again with the out-of-state ppls??? Mcf11 about the question ur going to ask to the uw admin. counselor…have you heard back?</p>