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All materials for each applicant (other than fees) are collected and filed in the office of the Astronomy Department. Every application in our office files must be complete to be guaranteed full consideration. Please be sure that your name and application ID number appears on every item you mail to us. Do NOT include social security numbers. The deadline for completion of the application for entrance in Fall 2008 is December 31, 2007. All application materials must be received by this date. The Graduate School recommends that applications from international applicants arrive by November 1. You may check the status of your application online by logging back into your application or by email. You may send inquiries to the Graduate Program Assistant (grad@astro.washington.edu, 206-543-2888, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. pacific time). The Department Chair normally starts sending out formal admission acceptance letters in mid March. Admission letters continue until the class of incoming students has been filled; please be patient. We aim to finalize all admissions decisions on or before April 15. The University of Washington is one of many institutions that signed a Council of Graduate Schools Resolution agreeing not to compel or pressure prospective graduate students to respond to our offers prior to April 15. The general spirit of the Resolution is that students should have an opportunity to consider more than one offer and should have until April 15 to do so, that institutions and students should be able to view acceptances in force after April 15 as binding, that everyone should know what the rules are, and that an offer by the institution and its acceptance by the student constitute an agreement which both expect to honor (http://www.cgsnet.org/Default.aspx?tabid=201; 7/18/2007). For more information on this resolution please see http://www.cgsnet.org. |
