<p>I am in love with UW, and have yet to find a college that suits me better. I am beyond stressed about getting accepted, so I was wondering if there was any student out there to help me get an ease of mind.
What are my chances of getting accepted on an unweighted GPA of a 4.09 with a 1740 SAT? I am a student from California with 4 APs and 4 Honors with plenty of leadership roles. My EC's include ASB officer all four years, President of community blood bank school blood drives for 2 years, President of a Christmas toy drive for the less fortunate kids for 2 years, and I have also had a job since the beginning of my Junior year. Also voted homecoming King Senior year. Essays included how I ran for ASB President, but lost, and how I turned that loss into something positive, and how I became close friends with a foreign exchange student at my school and began to see the world through eyes and how her adventures of the world inspired me to explore the world myself. I am so stressed and am turning to you guys for your opinion, what do you guys have to say?</p>
<p>My son was waitlisted, which surprised us. His unweighted GPA was considerably lower (3.3-3.4), but his weighted was around 4.0. He had a 2060 SAT (1440 CR+M) and 31 ACT, with outstanding ECs. He did not demonstrate the sort of interest that you did, though.</p>
<p>how does your SAT break down? what do you want to major in? the 4.09 is out of 5.0?</p>
<p>I entered my GPA wrong on the app then, on my transcript is says Unweighted: 4.09 so I entered that in. Is that going to be a problem if I accidentally entered it wrong? My SAT scores are
Writing: 530
Math: 590
Reading: 620
I want to major in Business Administration.</p>
<p>it’s possible your school uses a 5.0 grading system; in which case the 4.09 is an unweighted score, presumably.</p>
<p>You’re in the conversation, but I wouldn’t count on getting in since you’re OOS. Your math and writing scores are at the lower end of the middle 50.</p>
<p>What’s your state flagship?</p>
<p>One question I have is if you can afford the school. Have you run the net price calculator yet? You would be full pay there IMO.</p>
<p>My state’s flagship is Cal Berkely, outskirts of San Francisco. Not an option though, San Fran is not my type of place, I have my heart set on Seattle. A community college up there is the back up plan if rejection from UW comes to pass.</p>
<p>And your parents don’t mind paying the huge OOS premium over a UC or CSU? I would be kicking some sense into you myself. I hope at least you put in some instate applications so you will have some options as your admissions is no sure thing. The OOS pool for UW is very strong.</p>
<p>It’s not like I’m shoving all of this onto my parents, I’m not that heartless of an individual. They are helping but in the end I am going to be the one paying back loans. I did not ask for opinions on parental financing BrownParent</p>
<p>Many do not ask about parental financing, then find they have no options because they didn’t ask and are surprised when there are not enough available funds to attend. There are many sad cases each year here posting too late for anyone to help them. But this is your first time to the rodeo. If you don’t like the advice you can ignore it but at least you have heard it and other students reading along will benefit. So we try to clue you in. </p>
<p>Students can borrow federal loans of 5,500 freshman year, 6,500 sophomore year and 7,500 for jr and sr years. All other loans are parental debt. I wonder what a graduated business major would think of paying $192k for an undergrad business degree and stuck with a bunch of loans to service? Just sayin’. That’s if you manage it in 4 years, the 4 year grad rate is 58%. So put applications in for backups so you can think things over between now and spring, and have options. </p>
<p>Business is the most popular major with a large amount of applications but Foster grants only a small amount of direct admits–they report that they recruit 200 so they actually make more offers to get that yield. Just guessing but if 3/4 are instate then that’s maybe 75 offers made to oos. If you want a better chance retake the SAT, everything else looks good. Otherwise you are put into the premajor and you will have to apply for competitive admission after 60 units of prereq and gen eds. It seems like only half who apply then get admitted.</p>
<p>My best guess is that you get admitted to UW but not to Foster. If you take the CC route, you have to make sure you go to one that offer all the premajor equivalents. You can transfer in as a premajor at 45 units, then try for Foster after 60. If you do that you’d likely need better than average grades and some good leadership and community service in your CC.</p>
<p>You might like to chat with other applicants in the UW forum. Or browse similar questions about Foster.
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