If you are offered an , the award notification is included in the Honors admission notification email.
To access and submit the Honors application questions:
The heart of the Honors application is the Honors Essay. This essay, separate from the UW Writing section, requires an essay specific to Interdisciplinary Honors. Your response will be evaluated on content as well as form (spelling, grammar, and punctuation).
Your essay should be original, thoughtful, and concise. Do not copy previous essays from your UW application or materials found on the UW Honors Program web site. Draw on your best qualities as a writer and thinker; academic risk-taking is a core value of the Honors Program, so take some risks and be honest. Tell us who you are and why you want an interdisciplinary undergraduate education. Work on the essays early. Have someone proofread your writing but don’t let a proofreader erase your unique voice.
Respond to the essay prompt using no more than 450 words.
We want to understand your enthusiasm for learning unfamiliar things and exploring different ways of thinking.
Tell us why you are excited to push your education outside the areas of learning you are most comfortable with.
Read our Tips for Applying for detailed advice.
The University of Washington’s Office of Admissions has moved to a test optional policy for Autumn 2021 and beyond. Accordingly, the University Honors Program admissions evaluators will not consider test scores, which have historically been a small factor in our evaluation process. The Honors Program admissions evaluation focuses on many factors, including :
To be considered for admission to the University Honors Program first-year applicants must first be admitted to the University of Washington. Please refer to the University of Washington’s Office of Admissions to further understand their review process.
As we enter a new freshman admissions season, the Director of Honors invites students and the communities around them to learn more about the UW Honors curriculum.
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Key dates & deadlines.
Quarter of application | Quarter begins | Application opens | Application deadline | Notification period |
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Winter* | Early January | August 1 | September 1 | November 1 – December 15 |
Autumn | Late September | December 15 | February 15 | May 1 – June 30 |
Spring** | Late March | November 1 | December 15 | N/A |
Summer*** | Mid-June | December 15 | February 15 | May 1 – 31 |
*Winter quarter is open to U.S. transfer applicants only. International student applications not accepted.
**Spring quarter is not open for general admission. Spring quarter is open only to applicants to specific departments in engineering and computer science.
***Most degree-seeking students apply for autumn quarter. If you wish to apply for summer quarter as a degree-seeking student please consult an admissions counselor . To apply for summer quarter as a non-degree student, contact Summer Quarter .
Hear directly from an admissions counselor about the transfer process. Virtual or in person, check the calendar for dates, times and location.
Holistic review is a comprehensive assessment of your academic performance, personal qualities, and achievements.
At the UW, you are more than test scores and a GPA, but we know you’re curious about the numbers anyway.
Admission to the UW requires completion of coursework in the subjects listed below — whether in high school, college or a combination of the two — unless you have earned 40 transferrable college quarter credits or more at the time of application.
Learn more about CADRs .
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English | 4 |
Mathematics | 3 |
Social Sciences/Social Studies | 3 |
World Languages | 2 |
Lab Science | 2 |
Senior year Math-Based Quantitative Course | 1 |
Fine, Visual or Performing Arts | .5 |
Academic Elective | .5 |
International students are required to submit an official TOEFL or IELTS score that meets the UW’s minimum English proficiency requirement .
The Office of Admissions calculates a GPA that is considered in the assessment of your application. Learn more about what is and is not included in that calculation .
Did you participate in Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB) or A Level & AS Level exams? The UW encourages and applauds participation in any of these programs. They are challenging and demanding, and we believe they provide excellent preparation for university study. Find details and useful links below.
Wondering what credits will transfer to the UW? Learn more about our transfer credit policies .
Your admission to a major at the UW depends on the major you are interested in and your application type. Learn more about admission to majors .
These online transfer planning resources will help you make a more efficient transfer to the UW.
We welcome applications from homeschool students. Please review our transfer homeschool guidelines so you’re ready to go.
We appreciate the time and effort that you put into your application to the UW. We want to make sure what comes next is as clear and efficient as possible.
Check out other transfer resources on the UW’s transfer student portal website .
Washington Student Achievement Council Transfer Student Rights and Responsibilities : explains the rights and responsibilities that each transfer student has as they interact with their institution in the transfer process.
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Given that the University of Washington School of Medicine ( UWSOM ) is ranked number-one in primary care by U.S. News & World Report , it looks for applicants who have a strong interest in patient education and community health. It is also committed to serving the needs of the citizens of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho through its WWAMI program. If you are from Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, or Idaho, you will receive an automated secondary after the school screens for your address. Washington residents complete an additional residency questionnaire before receiving a secondary. All other applicants undergo additional screening to determine their fit for UWSOM.
To learn more about UWSOM, check out our podcast interview with Admissions Dean Dr. LeeAnna Muzquiz .
Uwsom secondary essay #1.
How have societal inequities in the U.S. affected you or people you have worked with? (250 words)
This question is asking about your experience working with people who belong to an underserved community or whether you have been affected yourself as a member of an underserved community. Provide a specific example from your personal life experience or from your clinical or other volunteer/work experience. Then explain what social inequities you encountered in that scenario and how they affected you or the others in your story. You also want to briefly conclude by explaining how you will handle these inequities as a med student and physician.
The UWSOM aims to build a diverse class of students to enrich the field of medicine. What perspectives, identities, and/or qualities would you bring? (250 words)
This essay is asking you to consider how you might contribute diversity to the class. You should consider diversity in terms of both background (cultural, ethnic, or linguistic) and experience (dealing with mental illness or experiencing loss). Explain how your background will be of value to your fellow students and what you can bring to the class. In your response, focus on emotional and mental maturity, and reflect on how that will enable you to work with or understand others.
What obstacles have you experienced and how have you overcome them? (250 words)
In answering this question, choose obstacles or life experiences to discuss that will allow you to show how much you have grown and changed. Be sure to highlight challenges that you actively worked to overcome , and maintain a positive focus. The bulk of your essay should explain how you overcame the challenge and how the skills you used or gained will help you in medical school. It can be helpful to establish a cause-and-effect relationship between your efforts and the net outcome. What approach did you take to address the issue(s)? What were the results? If possible, select challenges where the stakes were somewhat high, for either yourself or someone else.
Describe your competency by explaining how you have explored and come to understand issues in the social sciences and humanities as they relate to the practice of medicine. (250 words).
Entering medical students need to understand the social forces that shape the health of the individuals and communities they will serve. This includes understanding how social contextual factors and policy operate at the community and national level to affect the health of individuals. Students should be familiar with the disparities in health that currently exist in society and their underlying etiologies. Candidates seeking acceptance to UWSOM can establish competency in this area through coursework in the social sciences, humanities, or related interdisciplinary fields, such as public health or ethnic and gender studies, clinical and/or population health research, service learning, lived experience, or a combination thereof. These are some examples of social science/humanities coursework to consider: anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, psychology, religion, history, philosophy, literature. To answer this question, try to offer a small lesson about the value of life, such as the regard for critical illness or the particular path to embrace healing for a population or group associated with a disease entity (e.g., breast cancer or glioblastomas), that sheds light on lived experience and what we can learn from it.
Watch: What UW School of Medicine is looking for in secondary essays – tips from Admissions Dean Dr. LeeAnna Muzquiz
From your most recent application until now, how have you strengthened your application? (250 words)
As a reapplicant , you are demonstrating the depth of your determination to attend medical school. Reiterate that determination in your response to this question. Strategically focus on the improvements you have made to your application – your new GPA, MCAT score, and life experiences. Focus on how the time you have spent improving your application has made you a better and more focused applicant. Motivation and your specific interest in medicine are essential, and you should show how these have guided your recent activities.
The Casper test is also required.
UWSOM average MCAT score: 512
UWSOM average GPA: 3.7
UWSOM acceptance rate: 4.5% overall
In 2023-2024, U.S. News & World Report ranked the UWSOM #13 for research and #1 for primary care.
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AMCAS Application Due | October 15, 2023; 11:59 pm, EST |
Secondary Application Due | December 1, 2023; 11:59 pm, PST |
MSTP Supplemental | December 30, 2023 |
Source: UWSOM website
***Disclaimer: Information is subject to change. Please check with the University of Washington SOM directly to verify its essay questions, instructions, and deadlines.***
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*Effective the Autumn 2021 admissions cycle, GRE General Test scores are no longer required as a part of the application.
The application deadline is December 1. If December 1 falls on a Saturday or Sunday, then the deadline is the following Monday. Offers of admission are usually made by mid-March.
Note: Be sure to select the English Language & Literature (PhD) application. You'll need to select either the Literature & Culture track or the Language & Rhetoric track.
For questions about application procedures, please email the English Graduate Office at [email protected] .
One copy of transcripts from each college or university attended, reflecting all graduate and undergraduate coursework is required. This copy will be considered "unofficial," but will suffice for application purposes. If admitted, you will be asked to submit your official transcript (either certified electronic transcript (preferred method) or a transcript in a sealed envelope bearing the Registrar's seal) from your degree-granting institution to the University of Washington Graduate School.
The statement of purpose should explain your decision and motivation to pursue graduate study in English language and literature: How have your academic interests evolved? To which track are you applying (Language and Rhetoric or Literature and Culture) and within that track, what are your proposed fields, or areas of concentration (e.g., African American literature, late Victorian culture, queer theory, environmental humanities, translingualism, rhetorical theory)? What draws you to those fields and what are the issues or debates within your field(s) that you find especially important or compelling? Insofar as your personal background or experience has shaped your academic interests, you may want to include some biographical context, as well.
If you have a provisional sense of what the topic of your dissertation might be, by all means, please share it – although you need not be worried if you don’t. You should, however, provide some description of the kinds of materials and questions that engage you (perhaps by describing an honors thesis or MA essay, and highlighting its relation to other, allied topics you hope to explore).
Simply put, the statement of purpose should provide the selection committee with a snapshot of yourself as a scholar, as well as an indication of your intellectual and professional goals. You will also want to be specific about why you have applied to UW English, in particular: what do you see as the fit between your interests and those of program faculty? Are there specific faculty with whom you would be especially interested in working?
The Critical Writing Sample should be a 15-20 page paper representing the applicant's strengths as a critical thinker and writer. Ideally, the topic of your critical writing sample will align with your proposed fields of study. However, we do recognize that sometimes, this isn’t possible, if, for instance, the longer pieces you’ve had the opportunity to produce were not in your areas of primary interest. In that case, your goal is still to select a piece of writing which corresponds in some fashion to your present focus or demonstrates an engagement with theories and methods that would be applicable to your present focus. For example, let’s imagine your proposed focus is on sensibility in the 18th century and you have not written a longer essay on that topic. However, maybe you have a longer essay you’ve written on the late Victorian novel of sensation, which you could present as showcasing your approach to the study of emotion, or affect. Simply put, you want your writing sample to reflect some dimension of your current focus or approach. If you are concerned that the relation is not transparent, you might consider including a short prefatory paragraph explaining the relevance of the sample to your future work. Submitting two short essays is possible, but may well not work to your advantage. You might be better served by revising and expanding a short essay that you feel reflects your strongest work.
Recommended style: double-spaced; consistent style (APA, Chicago, MLA, etc.) across the document; 1-inch margins; readable font
Use the online application to provide contact information for three people who will submit letters of recommendation. The most useful recommendations come from college professors familiar with your work as a student. Letters from employers are only helpful if your work was directly related to writing or teaching.
We urge applicants to have a full discussion with all prospective recommenders prior to seeking their recommendation. Recommenders should be aware of where you will be applying and of your academic and professional goals. Your aim is to select recommenders who believe your goals are well-suited to your talents.
Minimum admission requirements: Non-native English speakers must demonstrate English language proficiency in one of the ways listed on the UW Graduate School’s Policy 3.2: Graduate School English Language Proficiency Requirements .
Requirements to hold a TA-ship/ASE teaching position: MA/PhD students interested in an Academic Student Employee (ASE) position must also demonstrate English language proficiency in one of the ways listed on the UW Graduate School’s Policy 5.2: Conditions of Appointment for TAs who are not Native Speakers of English . You must receive a score of at least 26 on the speaking section of TOEFL-iBT or a score of at least 7.0 on the speaking section of the IELTS in order to be eligible to teach.
How to submit official TOEFL scores : Contact the Educational Testing Service (ETS) to order your official TOEFL score report. TOEFL scores are valid for two years from the test date. Our institution code is: 4854. Department code: 99 (any department).
How to submit official IELTS scores : The University of Washington only accepts scores submitted electronically by the IELTS testing center. No paper Test Report Forms will be accepted. All IELTS test centers can report scores electronically. You must request from the center where you took the test that your scores be sent electronically using the IELTS system (E-TRF) to the following address: University of Washington All Campuses, Organisation ID 365, Undergrad & Graduate Admis, Box 355850, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States of America. If you have already taken the IELTS, you can go to the IELTS test center location for the email address of the IELTS Administrator to make your request. Allow a minimum of 13 working days for reporting test results to our school. IELTS scores are valid for two years from the test date.
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Please check with the University of Washington SOM directly to verify its essay questions, instructions, and deadlines.*** Since 2001, Cydney Foote has advised hundreds of successful applicants for medical and dental education, residency and fellowship training, and other health-related degrees.
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