Chances for Acceptance

Colleges & Universities A-Z Washington University in St. Louis
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<p>First time posting, so don't get too angry!</p>

<p>I'm going into my Senior year at a decent public school in Nevada, I'm a Caucasian and am planning on doing a pre-med track in college (if I went here, I would major in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology).</p>

<p>GPA:
Unweighted - 3.6
Weighted - 5.0
It's not the best GPA, but I have an upward trend (I am a 4.0 student as of Junior year) and have never gotten below an "a" in an AP or IB class.</p>

<p>I am ranked in the top 10% in a class of about 740.</p>

<p>AP
Language and Composition - 5
Psychology - 5
US History - 5
World History - 5</p>

<p>IB
Psychology - 5
Math SL - 5</p>

<p>Next year's schedule:
US Government AP
Forensics/advanced writing IV
Government IB
Calculus BC AP/IB
Physics II AP/IB
World Literature IB (Taking the Lit/Comp AP exam)
French III H/IB
(I am also taking Chemistry I H, PE, and Health through an independent study group)</p>

<p>SAT:
Math: 710
Writing: 650
Reading: 720
I know these are kind of on the low end of the spectrum, and am re-taking the exam in the fall - I am also taking the ACT.</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:
2 years of Marching Band - Trumpet - Played in the Inauguration
2 years of Symphonic Band - Trumpet
2 years of Orchestra Winds - Trumpet
2 years of Jazz Band - Trumpet
3 years of Teen-age Republicans
President of Teen-age Republicans senior year
2 years of Psychology Club (community service based organization)
President of Psychology Club senior year
4 Years of Speech and Debate - numerous awards including county champion, national qualifier
Policy Debate Captain senior year
Member of the Highly Gifted and Talented Program (intelligence based program beginning in 2nd grade)
School's representative for the Hugh 'O' Briant leadership seminar
Accepted to Boys' State (could not attend due to NFL nationals)</p>

<p>Other Notes - I am hoping I will have really strong recommendations, I am expected to graduate with an IB diploma and hopefully a scholarship from AP on the state or national level. I also have an inordinate amount of math and english credits as I have been taking the classes since sixth grade - I should end up with 7 math credits and 5 english credits.</p>

<p>Thank you all so much, and tell me if I forgot anything!</p>

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<p>If you meant AP State scholar, people usually have around 20 APs. So I’m pretty sure you are not in the running for this.</p>

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<p>As have many other people.</p>

<p>ECs are decent, maybe a bit below average, nothing spectacular.</p>

<p>Judging from the UW GPA and the class rank, that is low, but the upward trend will help.</p>

<p>I can’t comment on your chances, however.</p>

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<p>Your unweighted GPA is fine but underwhelming; the excellent junior year will help.
ECs are solid.
SATs are okay. The writing is poor, but no one will care much, expecially with the 5 on AP L&L
As with so many applicants, you are in the midst of those for whom it will be a highly competitive crap shoot.
Good luck</p>

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<p>EC’s are quite good. SAT’s are fairly low for WashU. GPA is decent but not great.</p>

<p>You’re not in the “definitely accept” or the “definitely reject” group. You have as good a chance as any of the other uncertainties.</p>

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<p>I’m confused about how somehow has a 3.6 UW GPA and a 5.0 W GPA. ???</p>

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<p>marcdvl, My high school operated on a 5 point GPA system when calculating weighted GPA, but they would report your unweighted GPA out of 4. I never understood why they didn’t just use 4 in both instances…</p>

<p>Anyway OP definitely try and improve those test scores, and other than that, WCASParent hit the nail squarely on the head. You’ll find people who swear that the only way to get into WashU is by regularly communicating with the department of admissions to “show interest” and others who say that the only interest they demonstrated was submitting an application. Best of luck!</p>

<p>On an unrelated note, are you one of those policy debate kids that can talk a mile a minute? my argumentation teacher showed us a video of a policy debate and it was honestly a little ridiculous to me. I couldn’t follow what was happening for the life of me!</p>

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<p>I am one of those debaters! </p>

<p>There is a huge debate (no pun intended) over whether the objective, fast, over-calculative thought in circuit policy debate is educational or not, but I think once you are involved in the community and begin to understand complex argumentation it is nothing but beneficial. :)</p>

<p>I don’t want to get too off topic, but I was kind of disappointed to see that WashU only had a parliamentary team, but on the other hand maybe that gives opportunity for a policy team to be created! :D</p>

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<p>I retook the SAT and took the ACT and here were my scores:</p>

<p>SAT: 2180
Reading: 720
Math: 750
Writing: 700
Essay: 12</p>

<p>ACT: 35
Reading: 34
Science: 34
Math: 36
Writing: 34
Essay: 12
Writing/Essay Composite: 35</p>

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<p>^nice score increase…I think you have a good chance of getting in, now.</p>

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<p>When you apply, just send in the ACT.
Don’t even bother wasting the money to send in your sat’s when you’ve got such a stellar ACT.</p>

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<p>oops, messed that up, meant a 710 for writing aha. </p>

<p>Thank you guys for your input!</p>

<p>Also, I’m applying ED, does that effect chances greatly?</p>

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<p>WashU tends to accept students on average with lower “stats” than their RD applicant pool, just because they receive much stronger applications in RD. Also, there is always the strong demonstration of interest, so yes if you want to think of it that way, it could give you a boost in terms of admissions. How much is hard to tell.</p>

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<p>You have a decent chance. My test scores were on par with yours, and Wash U digs musicians. When you come here next year, join Senate! :)</p>

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<p>@WCASParent</p>

<p>“SATs are okay. The writing is poor, but no one will care much, expecially with the 5 on AP L&L”</p>

<p>Wash-U doesn’t consider writing scores for neither the SAT nor the ACT.</p>

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<p>Accepted!!!</p>