<p>Hoping for Computer Science major and UWash is my #1</p>
<p>100% Hispanic out of state (born in US to both immigrant parents)
1940 SAT (retaking)
3.0 Unweighted (hurts I know, I suffered from clinical depression through most of High School)
3.9 weighted
Attended top 100 high school in the country (shows academic rigor I'm hoping)
3 dual enrollment classes
4 years of Engineering with A average
10+ Honors classes
7 APs
Varsity Swimming
Vice-President Tech Club 2 years
3 years of robotics including going to TSA Nationals
Co-founder and Master at arms of Board Games club 3 years
Awards in playing Saxophone (2 superior medals at Florida Solo & Ensemble)
Attended Duke TiP summer program</p>
<p>I think your UW GPA will hurt you the most. The average UW GPA for first year applicants average in the 3.6-3.8 range. I would suggest writing a really informative essay about “why” your grades fell and how you plan to succeed at UW. Good luck</p>
<p>I understand the problems with my GPA. I’m hoping everything else does look good however. I can write a pretty great essay (I’ve already taken every english class possible in my school so I’m already at ENC1102) so I’m not too worried about that.</p>
<p>GPA will be the main obstacle to you getting accepted.
UW doesn’t really use affirmative action, so being Hispanic doesn’t help you much.
I’d say 30% honestly, I know a lot of very smart people who weren’t accepted simply because their GPA was low (ie: 3.00 GPAs / 2200 SATs). </p>
<p>I think your best hope is getting the admission people to sort of throw out your GPA when they are considering you, so make whatever essay you write about depression really strong. Not sure about how supplemental materials work in terms of explaining an aspect of your application, but it might be helpful to get your counselor or someone with credibility to validate your claim.</p>
<p>Also, an upward trend would be extremely beneficial to your application.
So if you suffered with depression early on, and then were able to overcome it, that would increase your odds.</p>
<p>Upward trend in reference to GPA^^</p>