some of us , who are parents and who have been here a looooooong time and have seen every mistake a student can make, ARE trying to help, by not encouraging you to pursue a lost cause.
“I need to be local” isn’t a good strategy for an appeal. Depending on what you got such poor grades in, right now, they may not feel you have the academic basis to succeed at that school or in your dream major. Those junior grades suggest you didn’t fully learn in those courses. And you’re interested in a mighty tough major, one that requires solid prep in hs. Community college is a way to catch up, prove you turned this around…and stay local.
So, you want people to tell you to appeal and that asking for admission, based on your family’s finance expenditures, is a good reason for appealing?
What is your intent? You’re going to ask the school to accept you because your parent is spending money on your grandparents? How will you afford the tuition if accepted?
I really don’t believe that another student would be admitted for financial reasoning of staying local. Every student’s personal situation is different, but for the most part, a student is admitted primarily because of grades and test scores. You have to prove your ability, over time, to perform well for college level work.
You can do this by attending your local community college, getting good grades and preparing for a university education, and saving money for your siblings and grandparents.
If you weren’t asking for advice, then why did you ask for advice?
And yes, that’s a bit snarky, but it’s also a serious question. You might want to consider it for a bit. I mean, really—if you ask a yes/no question, you might well get a negative answer, you know?
@dfbdfb I just wanted a simple yes/no to my question. “Is it a good reason?” Yes/no. I don’t want anyone’s opinion on if I should appeal or not because I have plenty of other reasons besides this and my grades as reasons for appealing. If I wanted to know if I should appeal, I would’ve asked.
@“aunt bea” I was just asking if it’s an okay reason to include in my appeal. It’s DEFINITELY not my only reason. I have plenty of other reasons besides the ones I listed. Please READ.
@menloparkmom It’s my choice whether to appeal or not. It’s not helpful to tell me that I shouldn’t appeal when I’ve already made up my mind. I don’t see it as a lost cause because I have so many other reasons why. The financial/personal aspect was just one reason I was considering but it’s not my everything.
@lookingforward Thank you.
Well, I guess I’ll just leave it out. Thanks to the people who helped out.
We are reading. We just want you to have a realistic idea of what your answer will be. I don’t know how competitive the Univ. of Washington is; an 1940 SAT doesn’t sound bad to me, but maybe your 2.57 GPA the 2nd semester of junior year was a problem.
Put yourself in the adcom’s shoes. We live within commuting distance of a 4-year college. I think they get something like 20k apps to fill ~5k seats. Even if they accept 10k to get the yield they want, that’s 10,000 students who are rejected. Do they want to consider 10,000 appeals? No. What kind of appeals would they entertain? Those that had an error in their application (like an incorrect grade reported) or one that had incomplete info. through no fault of the student. They won’t reconsider students who don’t meet academic criteria just because they promise to work hard and do better, and I don’t think they’ll consider students who can’t afford to dorm at the other state school because their parents are buying a second home.
Your parents are making a choice. They don’t want you far from home because they need you to help look after your siblings while they help your grandparents. I understand that you don’t want to start at a cc, but that’s not the college’s problem. They also won’t care that your parents’ $100k income goes to pay for SAT classes and ECs for your siblings. They’ll view that as a choice. And be careful about detailing all the people in your family who have issues with depression; I’m not sure that will help your case.
You don’t have to have biomedical engineering at the cc. Take the regular gen ed classes and transfer into the major at a 4-year college. Lots of kids in our area are in the same boat; our local 4-year public is tough to get into as a freshman, so many start at the local cc and transfer in as juniors. Getting the degree is what matters.
I think the appeal is a waste of time.
Bioengineering isn’t only available at 2 colleges in Washington State. The Seattle Community College North Campus has a [bioengineering track](https://northseattle.edu/transfer/degrees/associate-science-degree-option-2?search_standing=1). Can you commute there? If not, make a list of the courses they require for the major (chemistry, bio, etc.) and take them at the cc near your home.
And so you got “no, and”—basically, you got better advice than you asked for, and you’re complaining about that?!