Applied RD as a psychology major with intended pre-med track.
GPA: 3.9/4.0 (UW - my school doesn’t weight)
SAT: 1270 (reading and writing 690; math 580)
White female from MA/middle class
Roman Catholic
Top 2% of class out of 109
AP Classes: Physics 1, biology, psychology (school only allows 2 AP each year for juniors and seniors)
Taken the most rigorous and heavy course load that my school offers
Awards
-11th grade won the award for top student in humanities at my school
Extra curriculars:
-Service Learning (9-12): established a homeless shelter in my community that provides basic necessities + mental health resources to +100 individuals a week
-NHS (11-12) president, 350+ volunteer hours at various nonprofits; tutors local migrant children in English
-MUN (10-12) president
-founded journalism club + started school newspaper (Chief Editor)
-Creative writing (9-12) publishes original pieces to website I designed
-Summer@brown
-internship for State Senator
-Varsity Soccer (9-12) captain
-Varsity Lacrosse (9-12) captain
-study abroad program in Nantes, France (10th grade) stayed with host family and attended classes at high school
-Student government (9-12) class rep and treasurer
Resume:
-extensive service learning resume: started class on mental health and addiction at my school, hosted speaker series in my town with famous athletes who struggled with addiction, and other projects on that scale
-interned with my town’s police department
-extensive independent research in the field of my intended major
Recs and essays were all very solid
I applied for RD as a psychology major too!
My SAT was 1480
GPA: 3.76 /4.0
But I got no AP and my GPA was not high so I’m kinda worrying about my application result ?
@Rowena0508 what were your EC’s like? I also applied to the Honors program not sure how selective it is though
First, congratulations on your outstanding academic and extracurricular achievements, and good luck with your applications.
Here is some information about admission to the UW Honors Program:
“While your academic record is important in your Honors application, we have a holistic admissions process that looks beyond your academic record to your written materials and evaluates students based on fit for our mission, values, and curricular goals. Students admitted to the UW Honors Program have a variety of academic and personal experiences.”
https://honors.uw.edu/apply/faq/
In the past, the Honors Program website published the following statistics (which should be read in light of the holistic admissions process described above):
2019 Incoming Freshmen (middle 50%):
High school GPA: 3.87-3.99
SAT: 1380-1530
ACT: 32-35
2018 Incoming Freshmen (middle 50%):
High school GPA: 3.83-4.00
SAT: 1370-1510
ACT: 31-35
General admissions statistics for 2019 can be found at:
https://admit.washington.edu/apply/freshman/by-the-numbers/
Anyone know when decisions come out for UW?
I believe I read decisions are announced between 3/1 and 3/15. We had a friend find out last year on 3/7 if that helps at all! Good luck!
My D logged in to her portal ~30 minutes ago. She got accepted, Pre-Major: College of Arts and Sciences.
@louise1019 Hey did you get in?
@Rowena0508 yes I did! You?
@louise1019 Ahhh no I got rejected and I don’t know why ?
But I have other better choices so I’m not that sad haha