<p>Hi I am starting my senior year. I am 17, male and in CA. I plan on applying to University of Washington as a CS major. I heard they admit very few people into their CS program as high school students. I have given my info below, please give me information about the basis of admission into the CS program and how I stand.
GPA(W): 4.14
GPA(UW): 3.82</p>
<p>SAT I:
Math: 760
Reading: 620
Writing: 760
Total: 2140
Retaking SAT one more time in October</p>
<p>SAT II:
Math: 770
Chemistry: 720
Planning on taking Physics or History once more</p>
<p>Senior Year Schedule:
AP Bio
AP Physics C
AP Gov/Econ
AP Stats
English 4
Photo (Necessary to graduate)</p>
<p>Extra Curriculars:
200+ community service hours, 2 years of varsity tennis, 1 year JV baseball, 1 year JV Tennis, Founder and President of Chess Club for 4 years, Exec member of CSF for 4 years (1 year of VP and 1 year of Awards Commissioner), and an internship with a software company in which I developed a mail merge application for the company to replace their outdated version.</p>
<p>Worth Noting: My only B's were in English Honors and Spanish.</p>
<p>Please let me know if, applying as a CS major, I stand a chance at getting in or not. Also, does anyone know if I get rejected by the CS department, do I still get into the school? Thank you!</p>
<p>I think you have a decent chance of getting directly admitted to CSE, but I wouldn’t say you’re in for sure. I have a few friends who did get in out of high school, both around 3.95 gpa, 1580 math/reading sat, and mostly IB or AP classes. I don’t know if these are the typical students that get in, or on the higher end or what, but you have an impressive resume regardless and probably have pretty good odds. </p>
<p>However, whether or not you get into CSE out of high school does not impact your admission to UW at all. Tons of people who listed CSE as their desired major get in as pre-engineering students, and then apply for the major after a couple years.</p>
<p>You might need to bump up your SAT to the 2200 range. In all other aspects, you’re probably a competitive applicant.</p>
<p>UW seems like an almost for sure for you. If you get in but not under the CSE major, just take CSE 143 (I’d advise 142 as well, but it’d be pretty much cake for you since you 5’d AP CS) and apply for the major. You can find out more on the UW CSE website.</p>
<p>You’ll definitely make it into the UW itself, and as a CSE direct admit, you look competitive. Don’t concern yourself too much with your test scores, they are fairly solid already (I was a CSE admit with 800/620/620), and they are only one of many measure used to admit you. </p>
<p>With your extracurriculars and GPA, I would take a look at honors as well!</p>