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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never mention this school to others because I want my kids to get accepted.[/quote]

Haha this is true! I am a graduate and my 9th-grade DD is convinced this is the only school she wants to go to.  Which is fine by me, because I loved it.  She will likely have stats to be in the mix, but it has become a very tough admit now.

Also, I love that the traditionally politically engaged student body still exists, as evidenced by their turnout for the state Supreme Court seat.  I think this makes it appealing for DMV students and it becomes a cycle of alumni moving to DC and then their children going there.  I know so many UW graduates out here.

If you ran that new NY Times college tool and put every indicator at the highest importance, so they are all weighted at 10%, UW was ranked 22nd in the country.  [/quote]

Its primary downside is a relative lack of racial diversity, esp at the undergraduate level and I think as it becomes more popular it will draw in a broader OOS population and change that.  The other issue is that it's one of those schools where the in-state population is increasingly less strong than the OOS students and the OOS population is growing--in 2022 46.6% of students were OOS (even more if you count Minnesota bc UW has a shared state agreement with MN).  There may be an in-state backlash about this trend.[/quote]

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