Average student applying all out of state - Chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Weighted GPA : 3.74/4.5
UW GPA: 3.32/4.0 (9-11 grades)
Class Rank: 45/364
SAT: 630V/500M (1130)</p>

<p>EXTRA CIRRICULARS
Art Club – Junior, Senior years (Secretary Senior Year)
Students Against a Vanishing Earth (SAVE) – Sophomore, Senior years
School Based Youth Services – Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior years</p>

<p>COMMUNITY SERVICE / VOLUNTEER WORK
New York Aquarium – Docent Program – 93 Total Hours
Helped educate and raise awareness of the world's aquatic wildlife and its need for conservation by using the aquarium as a place to meet and teach the visitors about all aspects of what we are trying to conserve.</p>

<p>Closter Animal Welfare Society (CLAWS) – Volunteer – 6 Total Hours
Responsible for cleaning litter boxes, feeding, playing with and caring for hundreds of stray kittens and cats at an animal foster home.</p>

<p>City of New York Parks & Recreation– Volunteer – 3 Total Hours
Studied and evaluated a New York City salt marsh by recording the amount of species living there, observing the statistics involved, and cleaning up pollution in the salt marsh.</p>

<p>St. Stephen’s Church – Volunteer – 16 Total Hours
Helped prepare for multiple masses.</p>

<p>Read Across America – Volunteer – 2 Total Hours
Read books to a sixth grade class.</p>

<p>WORK EXPERIENCE
NJPets – 21+ hours a week since August 2004
Involved in the sales of birds, reptiles and small mammals.</p>

<p>HONORS AND AWARDS
Honor Roll – Freshman, Sophomore, Junior years
Citizenship – Freshman, Sophomore, Junior years
2002 Veteran’s of Foreign Wars “Voice of Democracy” Audio Essay Contest – 1st place
“Stairways to Kearny” Photography Contest – 3rd Place
18th Annual Meadowlands Student Art Expo &
The Hudson County Alliance of Teen Artists – Outstanding Achievement</p>

<p>Im majoring for Zoology/Wildlife Biology</p>

<p>Schools:
University of Washington
University of Montana
Colorado State
Oregon State
California State Fresno
San Francisco State
Portland State
Washington State</p>

<p>I will get into atleast ONE school, right?... RIGHT?!?!</p>

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<p>The only schools I know anything about are CSU and Montana (bc I applied to both of them, looking into possible wildlife biology/zoology too): I think you'll be fine at both of them. wow, you won the vod contest? i tried that contest for three years, and couldn't break into their finals, heh</p>

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<p>UW you are in for sure</p>

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<p>Why are all your schools so far out west? Apply to some better ones too. You are in the top 15% I would pick another reach or so.</p>

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<p>I think UW is iffy, they have gotten pretty strict even for in staters. Oregon State should be an in as well as Portland state (have you visited there, not at all like the other schools, primarily a school where people live at home in Portland and attend). Washington State shouldn't be a problem either. I know Wa. State and Or. State are very nice and would be great for your major. I don't know about the other schools.</p>

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<p>:) Its nice to have people like be reassuring that I will atleast go to college next year. I am ultra paranoid and I am worrying like I won't get into any schools.</p>

<p>Anyway,</p>

<p>yeah I won at the Town level, 1st place and like 200$ i think. I lost at the next level, county? I dunno. I didn't even think my essay was that great, but apparently they thought otherwise.
Maybe if I get into CSU or Montana and decide to go to either we can hang out and chat about our zoology careers lol</p>

<p>And how come I'm in at UW for sure? Is that sarcasm? Because everyone else has said that is my biggest reach and the probability of acceptance is low. It IS my like dream school, I want to go there SOOOOOOOoo much.</p>

<p>I am applying so far out west because I like need to start over. Everything is so screwed up here I can't even bother trying to fix it. I want like a fresh start where I can be myself and meet new people that are completely different than the ones I've been around for the last 17 years. I also feel like I'm being held back from my potential and I'm definately ready for a complete fresh and new environment.
And I could apply to more but like there aren't really a lot of schools that offer zoology/wildlife biology in the west and my SAT is low enough already for out of state considerations that I dont think I would take the chance. I had thought of submitting an app for UCLA for the hell of it LOL </p>

<p>ANd yeah my top pick is UW, but then after that it is Oregon State and Colorado State. Lot of people have said Oregon is likely an in as well, but like I said I dont want to get like confident, I didn't even send out the app yet (almost done tho). Washington state looks like a nice place too, and Portland state is like a stay at home school? Is it boring there? I visited a college in NJ, Fairleigh Dickinson and it seemed so dead, I don't want a college like that.</p>

<p>More responses?</p>

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<p>No i was not being sarcastic, i am from seattle, so basically al my life ive heard of the WIDEST gamut of people getting into UW, regardless of what everyone says and what the stats say...UW is big on the sat-gpa combo (like instate acceptance is almost right off an index chart), but especially for out of state, they really do look at activities. you look like you have a nice unique set of accomplishments/activities. UW gives u a nice big space to put in a basically unlimited description of all your activities. For each one, write a paragraph description that is REALLY good, and make your app appear tight, and i bet you are 90% in. no worries</p>

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<p>Cool, yeah I am thinking their decision will be like dependant on my ECs/Comm Services and essays and personal stuff they seem like a school into the person rather than just like test scores.</p>

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<p>Most of my friends are getting into CSU with 3.0's and 21-22's (In-state). Not sure about out-of-state tho. They've only got like 20% out-of-state students, if that means anything.</p>

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<p>I don't think you are in at UW for sure. Your unweighted GPA is kinda low, you're an out-of-stater, and your SAT scores are not very good. UW has gotten a lot stricter and it's a top 40 school.</p>

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<p>But I'll get into atleast one of those schools..... right?!</p>

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<p>WSU = safe</p>

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<p>heh, yeah i moved on in two of my years and accumulated about $200 between the two, but gosh they're hard to break! yeah, csu has one of the top 2 wildlife biology programs in the nation. if i go in-state, it's probably one of my top 2 schools. it's in a really great town - ft. collins is almost as cool as boulder (less liberal...), and the mountains are fairly close - if you go there, make sure you go to big city burritos and get a potato burrito. one of the problems for me with csu is that it's just about 40 minutes from where i live, so... montana is nice because it's close to yellowstone and mountains and just great backcountry (i'm such a mountain girl), the town is really small (i like small towns, but this town is so small and there's really not many big towns around it!) but i think you'll be fine applying to them, stop worrying!</p>

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<p>Thansk for the encouragement, I hope to get a response from atleast 2 of the colleges (San Francisco State and CSU Fresno) by Christmas (I sent them out end of NOvember). </p>

<p>Any more input?</p>