Chance me!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Washington
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<p>Basic: Asian, Male, rural Washington
School: Public, virtually nobody goes on to top-colleges
Income: Less than $25,000
"Hooks" : Low-income, rural area, QuestBridge Finalist</p>

<p>ACT (best / superscored): 32 Comp 10 W/ 34 10 W
SAT Subject Tests: 760 Phys./760 Math II</p>

<p>GPA: 3.8 UW
Rank: 17th (Top 3%)
(Combo Killer 3.3 Junior GPA Average)</p>

<p>ECs:
-Robotics | Vice-Pres (12),
-ASB Officer | Treasurer(12)
-Debate | (9-12), won some small awards from local conferences, nothing big
-Marching Band | Member(9), Section Leader(10-12) 3rd in state overall?
-Youth group | Coordinator<a href="9-12">Only Position</a>, typical community service
-Link Crew | (10-12), Mentor incoming freshman</p>

<p>I set up security systems and fix whatever(electrical wiring, computers, blah) for the poor(widows and the like).
I don't have any big nation-wide awards, olympiads, etc.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>You’ll be fine as long as you wrote stellar essays.</p>

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<p>@Speedsolver Sweet!
Does anybody know about whether being a QuestBridge Finalist helps at all with UW?</p>

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<p>Without that you’ll probably still get in.</p>

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<p>You should be there, buddy!! See you next year!!</p>

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<p>I’ve heard of QuestBridge but don’t really know about it. Don’t worry about it though… QB finalist standing won’t change if you’re in or out in itself. :)</p>

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<p>congrats on being a QB finalist! It is a great program from what I’ve heard about it. I would be surprised if you weren’t accepted.</p>

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<p>Hey thanks guys! See ya there next year!</p>