UW was strange this year I guess. A few kids from my area got in for CS, and I had either slightly or markedly more impressive raw stats than them, and likely ECs as well. My first thought was that my essays crashed and burned into a hill, but I got into Honors (which is an essay based app) so idk what’s up lol.
I submitted an appeal, but I’m considering withdrawing it as I would much rather attend UCLA over UW, even in the rare event that my appeal is approved.
Posting an update as we are near the end of the admission cycle this year.
Asian Male
4.5 GPA; 1590 SAT(single sitting); Decent, but not outstanding ECs; good essay; strong recommendations
Major: BioMedical Engineering
Accepted: BU, Pitt, Rutgers, NJIT(generous merit aid)
Rejected: Johns Hopkins, U Penn, GATech, Rice
Waitlisted: Cornell, Michigan, Case, Rochester
Committed to BU; withdrew from all waitlists, except Cornell…keeping that option open 
I’ll post my son’s stats here:
Accepted:
Alabama (full ride as NMF)
Arizona State (accepted to Barrett)
Florida State (honors college, NMF package)
Miami (presidential scholarship)
Minnesota (honors college)
Nebraska (full tuition+ - commited!)
Texas A&M
Rejected:
UT-Austin
USC
Will post a recent reply of mine here which outlines decisions for my son, including any merit. Apologies that I didn’t realize this thread existed. Good luck to all!
My D entered college Fall 2021 so it was a very weird COVID year for admissions. Her results:
Accepted with Merit: Smith (attending), Occidental, GWU, Lewis & Clark
Rejected: Barnard ED1, Tufts ED2 (applied TO to Tufts)
White female
CA resident
large public HS
not applying for financial aid
major: economics
Full IB Diploma
GPA: 4.0 (UW) 4.6 (W) RANK: 4/550
SAT: 1450 (780 CR, 670 M) (Took only once due to COVID)
ECs: pretty good, small focused set of activities that she stuck with and cared about
Essays: very good, some of the supplements better than others
Okay I know this was an extremely long time ago but my UW CS appeal was approved. After doing more research and talking to extremely strong in-state applicants who were also denied and accepted on appeals, it seems that UW CS does yield protection. Extremely obnoxious of them, and is especially disheartening since UW decisions come in the beginning of March before most schools.
I really hope that any WA CS student reads this and takes UW CS admissions in early March with less than a grain of salt.
My D22:
White female
Large suburban public school in CA
UW GPA: 3.95
W GPA: 4.38
UC GPA: 4.22
12 APs: Euro (5), APUSH (5), Stats (3), Lit (4), Lang (4), Macro (4), Micro (4), Calc AB (4), Gov (3), Art History (3), AP Psych (didn’t take the test) Chem (didn’t take the test)
SAT: 1470 (760M, 710R/W)
ECs: editor roles on school paper, years of theater and music performance, founded an anti-racism book club, leadership roles in a few other clubs, chosen to sit on our county’s youth commission
Accepted:
Macalester (23k merit)
Kenyon (15k merit)
Fordham (26k merit)
Smith
University of Vermont (18k merit)
University of Oregon, Honors College (10k)
University of Wisconsin, Madison
University of Michigan
UC Santa Barbara
UCLA
Rejected:
Yale
Columbia
UPenn (ED)
Tufts
BU
Middlebury
USC
Berkeley
Waitlisted:
Wesleyan
She’s attending UCLA.
So did you decide to attend UW after your appeal was approved, or are you at UCLA?
Chose to stick with UCLA. Loved UW, but don’t regret my decision one bit.
Hi, congrats on Brown! Can I ask what your social justice award was?
Wish I had known about this thread when we were researching schools. Our HS Naviance wasn’t that accurate for elite schools, so we were flying blind chasing merit and financial aid, and hoping for the best.
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DS2022
Hispanic male
Medium suburban public school in MA
UW GPA: 3.95
W GPA: 4.64
9 Aps:
ACT: 36 superscore
Essays ~7-8
LoRs ~8-9
Interviews MIT ~7, others were 8-9
ECs + Honors/Awards:
Major: Math, computer science
Accepted, merit/financial aid per year:
Rejected:
Waitlisted:
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Good luck seniors.
Hang in there, you can breathe in January.
S22 was a less high flying applicant (very strong, but not top, student). Results below:
White male
Large suburban HS in MA
Full pay family
UW gpa - 3.7
W gpa - 4.1
4 APs - 4 on all exams (a note that APs are not allowed until junior year so 4 is considered very respectable at our HS - all other classes were honors)
SAT - Test optional
ECs - Very average - some sports and a lot of volunteering - he also talked about some personal hobbies he spent a lot of time on
Essays - 7/10
Recommendations - 8/10
Accepted:
UMass Amherst (attending)
Pitt
Syracuse
UConn
American
Rejected:
William & Mary
UMD - this was probably due to NOT applying EA - friends with similar stats that applied EA were accepted - would not recommend applying here unless you go EA.
Thanks, I’m happy to see more results from students with roughly this profile. I’ll be adding my S23’s results in April when we know them just to give more people a better idea of what’s realistic (it’s easy to get sucked into the trap of believing only kids with 3.95 UW GPA’s and 1500 SAT’s and insane EC’s will get into anywhere “good”).
Edit* - I just noticed that the post above mentioned a 3.95 GPA, didn’t mean to call that out or anything. Those should obviously be posted as well… I think the stats on this board are probably skewed higher than average, so I’m happy to see kids with stats more closely aligned with my S23. And honestly, more stats all over in general.
D23, recruited soccer player. ED to Clark University. 30 ACT, 3.8 UW GPA, 5 AP courses out of 11 available, accepted with Traina Scholarships (20,000 per year).
DS22
White male
Mid size suburban HS in NJ
Financial need
W gpa - 100.2
15 APs - all 5s except for two 4s and two 3s
SAT - 1540
ECs - Student Council President, Model UN President, interned with local government officials, started clubs in HS, County youth ambassador, many extra curriculars geared towards interest in politics, started local non profit, very involved in various community service organizations
Essays - 8/10
Recommendations - 9/10
National Merit Commended Scholar
NHS, Language honor society
major: government, political science
Rejected:
Harvard
Yale
UNC
Northeastern
Waitlisted:
American
UPenn
Amherst
UVA
Cornell
Wash U
Accepted:
Georgetown
Columbia
George Washington
University of Michigan
Princeton - attending
Can you give us a bit more info on what the essays were on?
essays why Princeton was about his love of history and politics and studying at Princeton’s school of international affairs, the disagreement essay was on a political topic, and community was about the non profit he started. graded paper was APUSH paper
I see, thanks! I have similar ec’s and struggled on my common app because I wasn’t sure if I should address my activities on it – do you have any tips based on what your son did?
S22
White male
Well ranked smaller MA suburban HS
3.7 GPA when he applied but that dropped senior year.
EC’s-sports and a job. Captain of one sport. Put down some recreational hobbies as well for EC’s.
2AP’s, 6-8 honor courses.
Essay was really good (9/10) and was about mental health (not his own). Recs were probably okay (7/10 maybe?).
SAT was 1320 and he submitted to all schools.
Applied EA everywhere. Accepted everywhere with good merit almost everywhere (no FA)
Clemson (no $)
Univ of Dayton
Univ of Denver (attending)
Miami University
Providence College (no $)
Univ of Tampa
Rollins
Butler
Xavier
Indiana University (no $)
Just wanted to give a perspective from an “average” student.
Isn’t it crazy how little Mass does to keep high-stats kids in state? DS didn’t even bother applying.