You do not pay a separate application fee to the UW School of Nursing.

If you are applying to the University of Washington as a transfer or postbaccalaureate student, you will pay the UW undergraduate application fee.

If you are applying to a DNP, PhD or other graduate program, you must pay the UW Graduate School application fee.

Our review process is holistic, not just a GPA cutoff. We look at your full academic record alongside the rest of what you bring: your healthcare or leadership experience, your extracurricular involvement, and the sense of direction that comes through in your essays.

We don’t expect every applicant to excel in every category. Strong performance in one area, or clear evidence that you’ve grown through a real challenge, can carry real weight in how your application reads.

Our programs are competitive, and space is genuinely limited, so a strong application doesn’t always mean an immediate offer. If you’re placed on the waitlist, here’s what that means:

• We make offers off the waitlist right up until the latest point someone could realistically complete compliance requirements before the quarter starts. In some cases, that’s only a week or two before the program begins.
• Being on the waitlist means we believe you have a real chance of being accepted. We only waitlist as many applicants as we think could plausibly get an admissions offer.
• Your position updates in the portal as the waitlist moves.
• We’ll contact you the moment a spot opens. No news means no spot yet, so keep your contact information current in the portal.

There’s no reliable pattern to how far the waitlist moves in a given year. Some years we admit most of the applicants, while other years only a few spots open.