Do I have, like, any chance?

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<p>I never really bothered looking into Udub until a few days ago, and it’s actually amazing and moving up really high on my list. It sounds like OOS admissions are extremely selective, so I’m curious as to what you think my chances are.</p>

<p>Thanks in advanced.</p>

<p>White Male from Minot, North Dakota
HS Class of 2010 (junior)
1st Generation College Student
Highly Ranked Public High School
GPA (unweighted): 3.726
GPA (weighted): 3.893
ACT: 31
I never took the SAT, but I got 226 on the PSAT
Class Rank: 12/174
Major: Chemistry </p>

<p>CLASSES (HP=Honors Placement)
FRESHMAN: Spanish 1, HP Earth Science, HP US History, HP English 9, HP Geometry, Band
SOPHOMORE: HP Spanish 2, AP Biology, APUSH, HP English 10, HP Algebra 2, AP Gov, Band
JUNIOR: HP Spanish 3, AP Chemistry, AP Euro, AP English, HP Pre-Calc, Band, Music Lab
SENIOR: AP Spanish, AP Physics, AP Psychology, AP English, AP Calc AB, Band, AP Music Theory</p>

<p>AP Scores up to date:
APUSH: 4
AP Gov: 3
AP Bio: 1 (all we did was watch TV in class)</p>

<p>EC’s:</p>

<li>Band, Band, Band, more band… Band…</li>
<li>Percussionist</li>
<li>4 years of High School Band.</li>
<li>1st Chair since sophomore year</li>
<li>Made the most Elite Audition band in my school 10th-12th grade</li>
<li>3 Music Letters, all from various Band Activities
<strong>Marching Band</strong>
-5 years, 8th-12th grade.</li>
<li>Section Leader for upcoming season</li>
<li>Co-Section Leader last year
<strong>Drum Line</strong></li>
<li>Co-Captaining the Drum-Line</li>
<li>5 years</li>
<li>Our group won 2 state titles
<strong>Pep-Band</strong></li>
<li>Section Leader junior year</li>
<li>Winter and Spring</li>
<li>Composed a song that we performed
<strong>Jazz Ensemble</strong></li>
<li>1st Chair Pianist/ doubled up on bass when needed</li>
<li>3 years</li>
<li>Performed in DC
<strong>Solo & Ensemble</strong></li>
<li>Played a Sax Solo sophomore year and received a superior rating</li>
<li><p>Fresh-Junior Year: Played with group and got excellent/superior ratings
<strong>Traveled to Spain last summer with the band to perform in Madrid</strong>
<strong>Accepted into the North Dakota state High School Honor Band</strong></p></li>
<li><p>Track & Field (Indoor & Outdoor)</p></li>
<li><p>1 mile, 2 mile, 4X400 m. Relay</p></li>
<li><p>Captain Junior Year for Indoor</p></li>
<li><p>Freshman Year-Senior</p></li>
<li><p>National Honor Society</p></li>
<li><p>300 Community Service Hours to this point</p></li>
<li><p>Includes peer tutoring to disabled children in the elementary school</p></li>
</ol>

<p>Thanks lots.</p>

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<p>Honestly? Looks like you'll have no problem to me.</p>

<p>Good luck with the rest of your junior year!</p>

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<p>yeah- just keep your grades up and apply early!</p>

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<p>I wasn't too impressed with the AP scores, but the other scores look solid enough for me.
I can't say if you'll immediately get into your desired major, but you'll definitely get a premajor admission.</p>

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<p>Like what ahsie said, your AP scores are a bit iffy, but other than that, it looks like you'll probably get in!</p>

<p>If it reassures you in any way, my friend who's also OOS had similar scores/GPA to you and got into the UW as a Bioengineering major (extremely selective) so I'm sure you'll get in(:
Good luck!</p>

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<p>Things look great and you can choose which AP scores to send (meaning UW wouldn't have to see your Bio score!). But, like, the title of your thread undermines your intelligence.</p>

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<p>Did they change that this year or is it something I never knew? Last year, when I was finished with my last AP exam, I did bubble in which school you want to send the WHOLE report to and the collegeboard will do it for you, but from my knowledge, you weren't allowed to select which scores you wanted to. </p>

<p>Though..., now that you mention it, I do remember hearing something similar to that.</p>

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<p>To withhold AP scores from schools, you have to pay Collegeboard a certain amount of money per test per school. I can't remember how much it is.</p>

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<p>Last trimester my grades took a blast (It’s called taking too many AP’s) and my GPA plummeted to… 3.27 I think. I failed pre-calc (retaking it right now, had to drop AP Euro) and got mostly D’s and C’s in everything else. My trimster GPA was a shining 1.1.</p>

<p>My weighted is still 3.58 though. And my ACT is now 32.</p>

<p>Are my chances ruined?</p>

<p>And are they understanding about things like overchallenging yourself, if you address it in the essays?</p>

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<p>UW doesn’t care about your weighted gpa… At all.</p>

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<p>lol, I know. Unfortunately.</p>