I’m a junior at a Catholic high school. UW Madison is the school of my dreams. I’ve toured it and have been in contact with admissions. I plan on applying for fall 2016. I am willing to do anything to get into UW Madison. It’s the only school that has given me that “home feeling” while touring it. It’s just a place I love. Some of my high school stats are lower than what UW Madison has on their website, but I know a lot of people who have been accepted with stats that all around are lower than mine. I hope to get wait listed at least since I can then send them my senior year grades and other letters of recommendation. But getting automatically accepted is my main goal.
High School Profile:
In state, first generation, minority
GPA as of junior year: 3.6 (almost 3.7, would go up after my first semester senior grades)
ACT: 27 my goal is 30 since I’ve taken it 4 times and my best score is 27
Extracurriculars: football 3 years, basketball 1 year, operation click, key club, French club, club soccer, bully mentoring, student ambassador, National Honor Society (will be Secretary/Treasurer)
Awards: all conference football, High honor roll throughout high school, scholar athlete award 2 years
Other: I’ve worked at a restaurant since the summer of 8th grade, I can fluently speak English, Spanish, French, and am intermediate with Italian. I’ve talked to a lot of people who are UW Alumnni and they say u have what it takes. In fact, my chemistry teacher is an alumni who did a lot of research there and I’m pretty sure she was a professor there too. And she is more than happy to write a letter of recommendation. I’ve also already done the essay prompts and have had them revised by teachers and a family friend who works at admissions at a different university (she said my essay was outstanding). I plan on applying as soon as admissions open. I plan on majoring in biology or communicative disorders to then pursue a career in dentistry. Please give me advice that will increase my chances!
And my GPA is unweighted
I forgot to add that I’m in the Teen Advisory Board for my town’s library. In addition, I do a lot of community service and do a lot of things around my community and Church. When it comes to applying, I will for sure have 100 service hours but my goal is 150 or more, simply because I like doing it.
I would work on raising your GPA. Your ACT score isn’t bad but even if you just increase it by a point or two, it will help. I think you have pretty good chances though (esp. if you are in state).
Don’t stop working hard (never do), but I think you will be okay because you are in-state. The main purpose of the University of Wisconsin is to teach the bright young minds of our state to “sift and winnow” knowledge from the midst of ambiguity.
But I would feel awful if you took your place for granted, sloughed off, and didn’t get in… so continue working hard.
(strike up the 5th Quarter) When you say Wisconsin, you’ve said it all.