<p>Accepted out in Virginia! Will post my stats on the other thread.
UW GPA: 3.77
ACT: 29, 10 writing</p>
<p>My S was accepted
Seattle native, and I’m an alum.
3.85 GPA, Full IB diploma candidate
SAT 1980, don’t remember his ACT, but think it was 31.
EC’s; Eagle scout, captain football and wrestling</p>
<p>Actually think he’s leaning towards PLU as they gave him very high $ merit, and he can probably play some football there.</p>
<p>It was a 1350 with all three scores. But they were also some of the top students at my school and had the best EC’s my town has to offer. The were also URM’s so that was a contributing factor to them getting accepted as well.</p>
<p>UW legally can’t take URM factor into account … at least, just for the fact that they are URM. </p>
<p>They probably wrote stellar essays and I wouldn’t be surprised if they talked about being URM since it is an obvious topic for the diversity essay.</p>
<p>I got accepted OOS!</p>
<p>GPA: 3.56
ACT: 31
Lots of EC</p>
<p>I want to do engineering but guessing my stats aren’t strong enough for direct admit. I’ll probably just go to UMich because i was accepted to their engineering school</p>
<p>Got in! </p>
<p>GPA: 3.8+
SAT: 1920
SAT II: Math 800 PHY 740
Several Leadership EC
Good Essay about diverse cultural education I received, and connected it to my passion in CS.</p>
<p>YUSSS I hope I can get in to CSE as DA! I’m an international applicant.</p>
<p>Accepted! :)</p>
<p>I’m only a junior, but let’s say i’m OOS from Minnesota (originally from Seattle proper) with a 3.8 GPA and courseload increasing in rigor every year, 2000+ SAT, unique ECs in which I accomplished quite a bit, communioty service when I became eligible, and a well-written essay, how would I do?</p>
<p>Be well rounded, you’ll get in.</p>
<p>Actually speedsolver, the UW can legally take being an URM as a basis for acceptance. It’s called affirmative action. I’m a URM too so I have looked quite a bit into these topics. The UW accepts a good portion of minorities that are technically less qualified than a lot of applicants that don’t get in merely to increase their diversity on campus.</p>
<p>so TRUE, all my minority friends including me got accepted to UW. Some of my friends have pretty okay, decent and to good grade however almost no activities, volunteer, etc. some even no anything except good grade. And all my non minority friends still waiting for their acceptance letter. And it seem that they are more easy on the minority than others because some really excellent students couldn’t get in and some okay student but different background got in. Somehow it isn’t fair process… it is an advantage for me but I still think it isn’t right.</p>
<p>Actually collegefanatic12, I am in agreement with speedsolver. She and I are both URM and it is WA State law that you cannot take being an URM as a basis for acceptance. That would be called affirmative action and affirmative action is illegal under WA State law. University of Washington is quite diverse and much more so than the State of Washington is. The practical result from legalizing affirmative action would be to limit the number of East and South Asians, and that would be racist; something I abhor.</p>
<p>Has anyone received the Welcome Packet yet?</p>
<p>I just wrote my research paper on affirmative action in college admissions last quarter… XD 10+ pages of goodness. It really is a topic that I’ve been looking at since middle school (aww yeah, debate!) because it affects me personally as well as my peers… in school admissions and in employment opportunities.</p>
<p>Anyway, don’t judge your friends/classmates for being URM and getting into UW before or instead of your non-URM classmates. They could have written amazing essays. If they “suck” at writing, perhaps they put a ton of effort into it and had lots of people give them feedback. It’s possible the non-URM students wrote crappy essays… or just didn’t get their letters of acceptance yet.</p>
<p>I’ve seen it happen… ~1300/3.6UW URM gets in, ~2200/3.8UW Caucasian gets completely rejected… and the other way around. (I can claim to have read their essays and extra curricular statements. It’s fun helping each other out on this aspect of the application.) It sounds crazy from looking just at the stats but that’s that … you’re only seeing their stats and judging from what you “think” they wrote on their application.</p>
<p>Give the admissions office some credit in looking holistically at each student and not dividing people into categories based on whether or not they’re URM or not.</p>
<p>got the admission packet today…in bay area, CA</p>
<p>I never tried to discredit any URM that got accepted. I even said that the URM’s from my town with lower SAT’s were really good applicants because they were well rounded in every other aspect. I never said they only got in because they were URM’s, I just said it was a contributing factor (which it was). I never judged anybody or doubted the UW’s ability to take a holistic approach about their admissions. I’m a URM too and I know the impact it has on an acceptance or denial, whether it be legal or not.</p>
<p>I would have to agree with collegefanatic12. All colleges, especially the UW, seek diversity on their campus. Achieving such rich diversity is only possible if colleges cut URMs some slack on their applications. I am not saying that being a URM alone could get you in, but I think being a URM is a contributing factor. Whether this is legal or not, it happens. But no college will ever admit it.</p>
<p>OMG, it is explicitly illegal!! What they want to see is that you appreciate diversity. Apt user name. If a student wrote an essay in which they passionately discussed how they grew up in Ballard and celebrated their Norwegian ancestry and ate (drank?) lutefisk with their Marm and Dad then they would be a “diverse” student who would do very well at UW, according to the admissions process. Meanwhile, if I wrote a merely solid essay but happened to have a flagrantly latino surname, I could be dismissed in favor of said “white” applicant.</p>
<p>Just to give my two cents. My son is white and got in the first round of U.W. last year. Many of his friends who are white got in the first round this year, and many of his friends who are not white got in the first round. All I do know is all of these kids are amazing writers and have amazing EC’s. I am not sure of their stats other than that.</p>
<p>anyone over sea get their welcome packet yet?</p>