<p>What are my chances at washu?</p>
<p>Junior
large competitive public, around 1300 kids in graduating class
top 15%
2020 sat(740 math,640 reading, 640 writing)
I take hardest courseload available(IB program)
EC's= band, bowling team, FBLA(10-11), Lit Crit, NHS, math club
over 200 hours of volunteer hours
and im indian</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>sat's and gpa seem low. also, its nice that you are involved in a number of clubs but i believe unless you hold some type of leadership position in a few of them your activities will be overlooked. without some type of hook (ED may be one) or some improvement across the board I'm not sure you will stand out come college admissions time; simply because wash u is such a selective school. </p>
<p>but theres no need to worry, your a junior and you have plenty of time to improve upon some of the minor holes in your application.</p>
<p>your gpa and sat's will def make you an average (at best) applicant...</p>
<p>ed is not a hook at washu- the applicant pool is much more compettive because it consists of kids with near perfect SATs but are uber paranoid about gettin in ( i believe this is an over looked trend at other top schools as well)- the more lazy less stressed out about college applicants apply RD, hence logically a tendency towards lower stats and less overachievement - at washu the percent accepted ED might be higher ( who actually knows since washu won't publish this stat) by a few percentage points- but this won't help you at all if you are all around mid-50% applicant</p>
<p>being indian (no offense ) is not gunna help either--- washu has its share of indians apply--i believe its probably easier getting into washu being caucasin---washu has like around a 15% asian student population, which is really an over-representation of this demo , which is a small 2% minority--so this pull is really competitve because of the rep. ?entiendes? === being a minority helps only if your minority is underrepresented ( at washu for example being hispanic would be a hook)</p>
<p>im not too sure about applying rd as a disadvantage. in my experience with people i know, most ED, not EA or SCEA, applicants are "regular" since the "good" ones tend to wait until RD to apply to a range of top schools and accept best offer.</p>
<p>My middle daughter is a freshman at the UW. Unless EVERYTHING has changed in one year ... I'd say you will have no problem getting in. I also believe being Indian will absolutely help you, and it's the white MALE who has the LEAST chance of being admitted! BTW - asians represent about 33% (not 15%) of the student body. Keep up the hard work and look for community service opportunities.</p>
<p>Dk5ver, are you sure you're not confusing University of Washington with Washington University in St. Louis?</p>
<p>Yes, I just realized that I am an idiot!!</p>
<p>well i won't disagree with that ----vinniedafoo-- here's some food for thought on the admissions process for asians (at pretigious schools)----
"Many colleges also use affirmative action to increase the racial and geographical diversity of the student body. Whites and Asians, especially from coastal states, are perceived to suffer a disadvantage by this policy, and therefore it is highly controversial. According to the study done at Princeton University in 2005, if racial preferences were eliminated, black and Hispanic acceptance rates would dramatically fall and four out of five admissions spots that would have been offered to those students would instead be turned over to Asian students."for a link to this study:<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S11/80/77I23/index.xml%5B/url%5D">http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S11/80/77I23/index.xml</a>
for study stats:<a href="http://opr.princeton.edu/faculty/tje/espenshadessqptii.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://opr.princeton.edu/faculty/tje/espenshadessqptii.pdf</a></p>
<p>haha-AA dosen't help like i said the asian demo as a whole (esp. south asian) is most definitely not disadvantaged----you must be a disadvantaged, UNDERERESENTED minority- to benefit from being a US demo. minority</p>
<p>so which elite colleges do not use affirmative action?</p>