chances for honors?

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of Washington
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<p>I'm a current junior, and I'm interested in applying to Foster School of Business or the honors program, can you chance me please?</p>

<p>Stats: </p>

<p>GPA: 3.88UW, 4.457W
Class Rank: 27th, 7th Percentile
ACT: Not taken yet
SAT: Not taken yet, but been getting around 2090 (M 800, W 680, R 610)
SAT II: Plan to take Physics B and Math II
APs: AP World(4), AP Chinese(5), will take the following in May as well as May of my senior year: AP Physics B, AP Lang, AP Calc B, AP Micro Econ, AP Macro Econ, AP Stats, AP American Gov, AP Lit, AP Environmental Science
Total Number of AP courses taken: 10.5 (I took a semester of APUSH)
Total Number of AP Tests: 12
Rigor of Highschool: really really really high, we're ranked like top 50 in the nation so the standards are high :P (Newport Highschool in Bellevue, WA)</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:
Chamber Orchestra (4 years)
Piano (11 years)
Cross Country (3 years)
Track (3 years)
Vice President/Co-Founder of Music With a Mission (3 years)
Vice President of Students for Students (2 years)
National Honor Society (2 years)
Key Club (4 years)
Student Senate (1 year)
Link Crew Leader (2 years)
Link Crew Commissioner (2 years)
Math Club (4 years)
Peer Tutoring (2 years)
BYSO (3 years)</p>

<p>Achievements:
1st Place at 2008 Northwest Orchestra Festival
1st Place at 2010 Northwest Orchestra Festival
Concert at WMEA Conference in Yakima
II+ at 2009 Solo and Ensemble Regional Festival (Solo Piano)
II+ at 2010 Solo and Ensemble Regional Festival (Small String Ensemble)
Outstanding Sophomore Boy (Orchestra)
Academic Excellence (2008/2009)
Special Recognition on Piano at 2006 Seattle Young Artists Music Festival
2nd Place Team Award at G.A.M.E. (Math Competition)
5th Place Team Award at Math is Cool Championships
Special Recognition Concert at PNSM (2007 and 2008)
5K Time: 20:00
1600m Time: 5:17
Knight Valor (100+ Community Service Hours)</p>

<p>Volunteering:
24-Hour Relay
Relay for Life
Pit Orchestra for School Musical
Pit Orchestra for School Choir
Peer Tutoring
Soup Kitchen
Phone-a-Thon
Tillicum Camp Counselor</p>

<p>Counselor Rec: Great
Teacher Recs: Great</p>

<p>Essay: non-existent, but hopefully great</p>

<p>I think that's about it. Oh and I'm a Chinese instate, brother is alumni</p>

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<p>Spend a lot of time, and put a lot of thought into your essays. That seems to be the main thing. Stats do not matter as much surprisingly.</p>

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<p>agreed ^. most people applying have similar stats. as long as your essay is outstanding, you should be fine.
also work on your reading SAT. I don’t think UW really takes writing into strong consideration…</p>

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<p>Remember that you get to only list (or catagorize) your extra curriculars OR achievements into FIVE slots. You seem to be very well rounded, with great stats, too. Those are definitely a plus. However, Honors will be looking mostly at teacher recommendations (they’ll read the FIRST they receive and trash all the other ones) and essays. Those personal statements basically make or break your application. Good luck and hope to see you in Honors :)</p>

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<p>Yet another person from Newport? :)</p>

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<p>Echoing the other responses, I think you are competitive, but you need to make yourself stand out from similarly qualified applicants in your personal statement and honors essay. UW does love Newport (I think you guys put the most into my class of 2013), but I’m not sure if that’ll give you a leg up in honors admissions or not. </p>

<p>Side note: I ran cross country and track for skyline for four years, good chances we ran against each other at some point.</p>

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<p>thanks everyone!</p>

<p>and @compactrunner, im sure we have, but to a short asian like me, everyone looks the same: tall, skinny, blonde/burnette. haha.</p>

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<p>@compactrunner - I don’t think the number of people applying from a certain school gives an applicant a leg up or not. I’d hope to think that the Honors admissions people looks at each individual by what that person has done and has written, as opposed to setting either a quota for each school. You never know though. :)</p>

<p>@cheekboy34 - Again, I think you’re really competitive for the Honors program. Just be sure to put a lot of effort into your personal statements. They change every year, so don’t answer this year’s essay prompts over the summer and hope to use those. Be creative and more importantly, STAND OUT through your writing. You want to give the admissions officers the impression that “WOW! We WANT this student as part of our program to enhance it! We WANT this student because of this uniqueness! Let’s accept this student right away and send out a letter during the first wave (Late January) of admissions to Honors!”</p>

<p>Don’t be afraid to take risks in your essays. They like that.</p>