University of Washington

[Anonymous]

4,400 students are from the state of Washington, 566 from California.

Only 11 from Virginia, 9 from MD, 0 from DC.

It is not a college for out of state students.

This is just blatant misinformation. UW freshman class is almost 12k students, and 72-73% are in state. There are many OOS students from across the country, but certainly students from surrounding states (CA, ID, OR) and HI make up a big percentage of OOS students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

4,400 students are from the state of Washington, 566 from California.

Only 11 from Virginia, 9 from MD, 0 from DC.

It is not a college for out of state students.

This is just blatant misinformation. UW freshman class is almost 12k students, and 72-73% are in state. There are many OOS students from across the country, but certainly students from surrounding states (CA, ID, OR) and HI make up a big percentage of OOS students.

I’m the PP who is local. Our neighborhood has a huge student rental near the edge of it, and license plates on their cars are PA, CA x3, GA and CO. That’s just one house. There are plenty of OOS students here.

But also, isn’t one reason to go to school across the country to get away from kids from your state? 11 from VA sounds like a feature, not a bug.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

4,400 students are from the state of Washington, 566 from California.

Only 11 from Virginia, 9 from MD, 0 from DC.

It is not a college for out of state students.

This is just blatant misinformation. UW freshman class is almost 12k students, and 72-73% are in state. There are many OOS students from across the country, but certainly students from surrounding states (CA, ID, OR) and HI make up a big percentage of OOS students.

Wow. Just wow. You have no clue. Direct from Institution Data Profile compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics:

https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/institution-profile/236948

2022-2023
7,311

Of those 7,311 16% are international students, or 1,170. 4,424 are from the state of Washington, 566 are from California, 93 Oregon, 51 Hawaii, Colorado 42, Illinois 37, Texas 30, Arizona 24, etc.

Hopefully you have you learned your lesson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4,400 students are from the state of Washington, 566 from California.

Only 11 from Virginia, 9 from MD, 0 from DC.

It is not a college for out of state students.

Is this for this year? Because a senior at my DC's DC Charter School was accepted and is attending this year.

[Anonymous]

how have i heard nothing about Washington on DCUM and non stop UC babble - digging deeper, this is a fantastic state school - that #7 ranking ( although not geared toward undergrad etc, more about research etc) is absolutely insane - my kid wants west coast and I’m ashamed I didn’t even bring this up. If you can call a university with 50k kids a hidden gem, this would be it - and tech placement is ridiculously good - won’t get that from Bucknell or Williams!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:how have i heard nothing about Washington on DCUM and non stop UC babble - digging deeper, this is a fantastic state school - that #7 ranking ( although not geared toward undergrad etc, more about research etc) is absolutely insane - my kid wants west coast and I’m ashamed I didn’t even bring this up. If you can call a university with 50k kids a hidden gem, this would be it - and tech placement is ridiculously good - won’t get that from Bucknell or Williams!

I think that’s some of the low-key west coast vibes coming out. I went to an Ivy and remember being confused by my roommate from Portland and her friend from Seattle. They were crazy smart but nothing like the other kids who were always subtly dropping stuff about their resumes and the classes they were taking and their SAT scores. UW has really done a lot over the last decade or so and graduates slip into local internships and jobs at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and way more interesting small tech companies so much more easily than kids at more prestigious schools. Seattle is still a small city in a lot of ways and it takes care of its own.

Plus UW has a great quality of life, beautiful setting, and classic big school activities and social life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:how have i heard nothing about Washington on DCUM and non stop UC babble - digging deeper, this is a fantastic state school - that #7 ranking ( although not geared toward undergrad etc, more about research etc) is absolutely insane - my kid wants west coast and I’m ashamed I didn’t even bring this up. If you can call a university with 50k kids a hidden gem, this would be it - and tech placement is ridiculously good - won’t get that from Bucknell or Williams!

UW is highly underrated due to its sheer size and research focus, but the researchers are really really good. Back when I was there, all the best students at Berkeley, UCLA, and Pomona would get grad placement at UW, so the intro teachers/TAs are the bomb, and the access to research labs is great. Connection to seattle makes for an excellent tech scene on campus and for recruiting. Would recommend if you can get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:4,400 students are from the state of Washington, 566 from California.

Only 11 from Virginia, 9 from MD, 0 from DC.

It is not a college for out of state students.

Is this for this year? Because a senior at my DC's DC Charter School was accepted and is attending this year.

I think it’s usually about 5 kids per year from DC proper. The PP is probably looking at something that says 0% of students at UW come from DC. But 0% is not the same thing as 0.

[Anonymous]

Great school. But visit to make sure you like Seattle. Go in February when it’s dark from about 4:15 in the afternoon until 8:15 the next morning.

People in the pnw are different. It’s a great place and I’d move back (but live outside Seattle).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:how have i heard nothing about Washington on DCUM and non stop UC babble - digging deeper, this is a fantastic state school - that #7 ranking ( although not geared toward undergrad etc, more about research etc) is absolutely insane - my kid wants west coast and I’m ashamed I didn’t even bring this up. If you can call a university with 50k kids a hidden gem, this would be it - and tech placement is ridiculously good - won’t get that from Bucknell or Williams!

I think that’s some of the low-key west coast vibes coming out. I went to an Ivy and remember being confused by my roommate from Portland and her friend from Seattle. They were crazy smart but nothing like the other kids who were always subtly dropping stuff about their resumes and the classes they were taking and their SAT scores. UW has really done a lot over the last decade or so and graduates slip into local internships and jobs at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and way more interesting small tech companies so much more easily than kids at more prestigious schools. Seattle is still a small city in a lot of ways and it takes care of its own.

Plus UW has a great quality of life, beautiful setting, and classic big school activities and social life.

Well said. This college section of dcum would horrify pac nor’westerners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:how have i heard nothing about Washington on DCUM and non stop UC babble - digging deeper, this is a fantastic state school - that #7 ranking ( although not geared toward undergrad etc, more about research etc) is absolutely insane - my kid wants west coast and I’m ashamed I didn’t even bring this up. If you can call a university with 50k kids a hidden gem, this would be it - and tech placement is ridiculously good - won’t get that from Bucknell or Williams!

I think that’s some of the low-key west coast vibes coming out. I went to an Ivy and remember being confused by my roommate from Portland and her friend from Seattle. They were crazy smart but nothing like the other kids who were always subtly dropping stuff about their resumes and the classes they were taking and their SAT scores. UW has really done a lot over the last decade or so and graduates slip into local internships and jobs at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and way more interesting small tech companies so much more easily than kids at more prestigious schools. Seattle is still a small city in a lot of ways and it takes care of its own.

Plus UW has a great quality of life, beautiful setting, and classic big school activities and social life.

Big + on this comment. West coast culture isn’t really about humble bragging. The vibe is being absolutely brilliant but having others think you don’t know much/being silent about it. Sometimes it can come out in a bad way, because people won’t talk about their struggles as much (Duck syndrome @ Stanford), but it also can make for very vibrant and calm environments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard that the culture is horribly competitive because of how major declaration works, so check into that

That is accurate. If you are not direct admitted to your major, assume you will struggle to get in for most (that have direct admit). Even in engineering, you are only admitted to School of engineering. Still have to compete for the actual major---BME, MEchE, ChemE, etc are all competitive. And so are Biology/Chemisry/bio-chem, math are all capacity constrained. So even if you don't get your "eng major" or you want to swap out and change majors, it can be extremely difficult to get into one you would actually want.

Same for Foster school of business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We visited and my DS loved it — pretty campus set in a great city, with public transportation making things easily accessible.
He ended up not applying because he is set on being a math major, but UW requires ‘application’ into that major after freshman year, and admittance was very low. He didn’t want to take the chance that he wouldn’t get into the math major. Not sure if other majors are like that, or how your kid feels about a major, but that was what stopped my kid from applying.

I wonder why they have that system. It doesn't benefit anyone and drives a ton of people away.

It’s a HUGE school. They couldn’t care less if some people are driven away. Seriously, it’s giant and can’t keep up with demand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We visited and my DS loved it — pretty campus set in a great city, with public transportation making things easily accessible.
He ended up not applying because he is set on being a math major, but UW requires ‘application’ into that major after freshman year, and admittance was very low. He didn’t want to take the chance that he wouldn’t get into the math major. Not sure if other majors are like that, or how your kid feels about a major, but that was what stopped my kid from applying.

I wonder why they have that system. It doesn't benefit anyone and drives a ton of people away.

It’s a HUGE school. They couldn’t care less if some people are driven away. Seriously, it’s giant and can’t keep up with demand.

I guess it makes sense; but then you have schools like UT, Berkeley, hell UVA that seem to have figured it out with the same amount. A&M is massive and 1/4 of students are engineers and they’re expanding the program even further.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

4,400 students are from the state of Washington, 566 from California.

Only 11 from Virginia, 9 from MD, 0 from DC.

It is not a college for out of state students.

This is just blatant misinformation. UW freshman class is almost 12k students, and 72-73% are in state. There are many OOS students from across the country, but certainly students from surrounding states (CA, ID, OR) and HI make up a big percentage of OOS students.

Based on the 23-24 CDS that I downloaded last week -- my DD will be applying -- the total number of first-year, full-time undergraduate students for the Seattle campus is 7,679. And based on the "What is a Husky" brochure we received when we visited in March of 2023, 59% of undergraduate students are Washington residents, 25% are OOS, and 16% are international.