<p>its my dream to go to washu!
im applying ed there
gpa-3.52, but it will be a 3.6 after the first semester
sat- 2000
taking the hardest classes my school has to offer, all APs
really good extracirriculars- head of habitat for humanity, editor of literary magazine, editor of yearbook, cross country for 3 years, a summer internship in a lab </p>
<p>what do you think my chances are of getting in?</p>
<p>im also a girl going into engineering if that makes any difference</p>
<p>Well, your UW GPA and SAT scores aren’t too strong, below average for WashU. Looks like pretty good ECs. I think it will be a reach but applying ED will definitely help.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I don’t think your chances are very good unless you are an URM.</p>
<p>whats that?</p>
<p>Underrepresented minority.</p>
<p>well im white… is there anything else i can do to help my chances?</p>
<p>Take the December SAT. Hopefully you get deferred so you can show them you improved (a score of 2150+ should help your chances a bit).</p>
<p>Yeah, it seems very doubtful to me unless you get your SAT score up by 200 points.</p>
<p>Being a girl applying for the engineering school will help at most places. How have you done on any subject tests or APs in math and science?</p>
<p>^Doesn’t make a difference at Wash U at least. You can easily switch schools; if girls had higher admission rates to engineering, they’d all apply then switch.</p>
<p>^^I can’t speak for WashU in particular on this, but there are plenty of schools where it’s easy to switch once you’re there but where it’s still a bit easier for women than men to be admitted. The reason is obvious: most engineering schools have considerably more men than women and they would love to get those percentages closer to even.</p>
<p>my school only lets you take aps starting your junior year. and junior year we are only allowed to take two. i took ap stat and apush, i got a 4 on stat. i take math 2 and chemistry sat subject tests this weekend</p>
<p>also, i have experience working in a lab so i hope that shows that i am actually interested in engineering and not one of the girls picking engineering so they can get in</p>