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Barley, its nice to see you back! Did you hear from UW? I will also be graduating with around 80k (undergrad plus grad). Even as a resident, UW is NOT cheap. I was pretty disappointed with my financial aid  . I talked to my mom about it though and 80k might seem like a lot, but it is definitely doable since most of my loans give me up to 20 years to pay off. Is it annoying that I'm already incredibly in debt? Yes. But school is expensive and that's just how its going to be.

It might be easier for the admissions folks to read if you follow the order they have presented. But I think what really matters is whether or not you hit every prompt and answer those to the best of your ability. 

I am a first year MSW at UW, and my program does require a course in human biology (as I'm sure other schools do as well). During undergrad, I took intro to Biology, but UW didn't give me credit for it because it wasn't "human oriented enough" (i.e. my course spent too much time talking about plants...). If you're concerned that a Bio course would mess with your GPA, I would go ahead an skip taking it in undergrad. I only say this because there are a ton of online biology classes you can take that schools might accept as credit. With me, since my Bio course wasn't accepted, I took a human anatomy class online over the summer through Texas State University San Marcos (per UW's suggestion) and it was only $150 as opposed to the $350 something UW was asking for the Biology course they offered in the summer. One other piece of advice, often schools will post the pre requisites that are required for their MSW programs. Usually its Biology and Statistics. Hope that helps!

I got wait listed at the University of Washington in March. Just offered admission on Friday!

Good luck!

Barley, its nice to see you back! Did you hear from UW? I will also be graduating with around 80k (undergrad plus grad). Even as a resident, UW is NOT cheap. I was pretty disappointed with my financial aid  . I talked to my mom about it though and 80k might seem like a lot, but it is definitely doable since most of my loans give me up to 20 years to pay off. Is it annoying that I'm already incredibly in debt? Yes. But school is expensive and that's just how its going to be.

I was denied as well, IFG concentration.

Congrats, dida!!
 
I was just accepted to UCLA 

Thanks!! Hopefully, I'll hear back from them this week. Glad to know that it's a good thing. congrats on your UW Paige!!

Yay! You're going to love UW.

How long did they give you to accept?

Accepted my offer of admission to UW today 

Accepted my offer of admission to UW today 

Woo hoo I got accepted to the University of Denver!!

Cool, we are all in the same boat and anxiously awaiting an official letter! Congrats to everyone!!