Chance an ED for Wash U?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>(I will try to chance back, but as a high school senior, I don't know how valuable my input will be)</p>

<p>4.3548 W
3.3582 UW
Rank: School doesn't rank anymore, but at the end of junior year I was in the top 7%
*ACT: 34 C 35 E 36 M 34 R 33 S 9 W
AP's: European History (4) English Lang. & Comp. (5) U.S. History (5)</p>

<p>AP Scholar
National Merit Semifinalist
NCTE Achievement Award in Writing Nominee
National Spanish Exam: Premio de Oro
Spanish Honors (grade 9)</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
(AP) BC Calculus
(AP) Micro & Macro Economics
(AP) Spanish Language
(AP) Physics C
(AP) English Literature
Newspaper Practicum</p>

<p>EC's:
*<em>Editor-in-Chief of school newspaper (12)
*</em>Commentary Editor of school newspaper (11)
Played piano for 11 years, have been composing music for 4 years
Volunteered in a social skills class for autistic children once per week since 5th grade
NHS Member
Thespian Society Member
Model UN (10-12)
Pit Orchestra (pianist) for school's productions of Evita and Chicago (9-10)
Teacher's Assistant at Summer School for elementary children on IEPs (11)</p>

<p>I plan on applying early decision to Wash U, which I have visited twice (once for a tour, another for a 3-day Discovery Weekend) and have interviewed at. I'm including this information mainly because I've heard that interest matters a LOT to them, but I could be wrong about that.</p>

<p>I plan to major in English (or something related), and I've had straight-A's in that subject all throughout high school. </p>

<p>Newspaper Practicum and Band are the only classes I have taken that were not either accelerated or AP.</p>

<p>*Wash U superscores the ACT, so the scores given are taken from 2 tests. On one, I got a composite of 33. On the other, my composite was 34. </p>

<p>**My school's newspaper last year won a Golden Eagle Award (best overall school newspaper in my region) and a Best-In-Class Designation from my region's scholastic press association.</p>

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<p>bumping this…</p>

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<p>If it wasn’t for your GPA I’d say you had a good shot. Yours is really going to hurt. Good Luck</p>

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<p>gpa’s bringing you down, maybe need some more leadership positions for EC’s…your test scores, rank, and rigor are what give you a shot; with strong essays/recs you could go for it but if you have a similar-ish college you really like that’s one step down i suggest using ED for that</p>

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<p>I know that my GPA is going to hurt me in admissions anyway, but I was wondering-- how do colleges standardize GPA when each school seems to do it differently? I have roughly a 3.4 unweighted, but I’m still in the top 7% of my class. Will that be taken into account at all?</p>

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<p>The only GPA that matters is unweighted.It removes any guesswork for them.The top schools seem to frown on lowish GPA.Your others stats are very good but the competition is tough.</p>

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<p>Wash U definitely looks at class rigor.</p>