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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My brother got degrees there in engineering, and in relevant specialties it really is up there.

I was of two minds about it growing up in WA. There were some strong programs there, but it was also a university that let in so many much worse students than me, so I wanted to look down on it. I didn't go there. Sometimes I say that if I had done the right specialties I would have had a very elite experience there. Anyway, my life would have turned out quite differently.

The prior poster brings up something I've thought about as well. My son is interested. He is a great student. But if he isn't able to get into the harder programs due to numbers of seats, isn't he just going to Big Box University?

I don't want a kid who is working really hard to gain human capital for a future career to end up with nothing more to show for it than kids who got Cs in high school and a 1200 on the SAT. That's my worry. Or at least one of them.[/quote]

Seattle person here.  Times have changed.  No one who "got Cs in high school" is getting into UW nowadays.  Their GPA 25/75 is 3.74-3.98.  https://admit.washington.edu/apply/first-year/by-the-numbers/.

I would caution folks about apply OOS to CS, which has an extremely competitive 2% acceptance rate(!).  You cannot switch into CS, but my understanding is that students can switch into any other majors.  The campus is safe and beautiful and [b]nowhere close to the areas where the homeless/mentally-ill hangout (i.e. south Seattle, international district, even downtown).[/b][/quote]

Was a Seattle person until 2021. Your point, while somewhat true, is relative to being in Seattle. To someone coming from the dc area, it’s likely the homeless in the u district over towards Ballard would be somewhere between uncomfortable and shocking. Downtown, Id, and Sodo would be downright frightening. We really don’t have anything here that comes within 1/10 of Seattle.[/quote]

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