<p>to get in? because their percentage of minority students is so low, will they give more leeway to minority students for admission?</p>
<p>WSU</a> successful, UW less so in creating diverse campus | Local News | The Seattle Times</p>
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<p>I hope not The impression I get whenever I visit the campus is that it is very diverse as-is.</p>
<p>They don’t take affirmative action into account as Washington law prohibits them from doing so, so I don’t think this will change anything.</p>
<p>No, I don’t think so… WSU is just promoting itself heavily among Latinos… WSU is in the agricultural part of the state where many Latinos live, so I would guess that they have a relatively higher percentage of Latinos applying. If you are a minority, just keep doing your best and you will get in. Don’t expect any special treatment.</p>
<p>@masterkuni
While the UW does not take points away for people of different ethnic groups, their entire personal statement is geared to be more easily written by people of diverse ethnic origin.
While this may not be seen as inherently discriminating, because anyone from any race can write a killer personal statement, it is easier for students from a diverse background to write a good one.</p>
<p>We can argue about achievement gaps, differing avg SAT scores by race, ect. but when it comes down to it, UW-S does not give these areas much weight on applications and focuses more on the personal statement.</p>
<p>My own story is a little extreme but here it is.
I had a friend from south Seattle. He did very poorly in highschool and was not supposed to graduate. He got the remainder of his pre-reqs waived for highschool and was admitted to UWS.</p>
<p>Once his transcripts were sent to UW-S his reported GPA of 3.5 was found to be 1.7, and technically did not have the UW’s minimum highschool education requirements.
UW retracted their offer of admission thereafter. </p>
<p>He reapplied / appealed the decision and was granted entrance into UW. </p>
<p>He probably had one of the lowest highschool GPA’s for that freshmen class.</p>
<p>Now in my case, I applied the same quarter as him.
My highschool GPA was around 3.8 with all AP/honors.
I almost had enough credits from AP to be a sophomore, and a long list of extra curriculars including a national invite. </p>
<p>I was rejected from UW.</p>
<p>The difference between my friend and I were our personal statements.
I wrote about taking care of someone dieing, and my friend wrote about growing up without a dad and racial pressures in society. </p>
<p>For the longest time I felt UW racially discriminated against me, but ive grown to understand their values.</p>
<p>I re-applied for transfer for next quarter and find out in a couple of weeks. we will see.</p>
<p>i’m so sorry vevenaneathna. i would feel angry to if i was in your position. where do you go now?</p>
<p>for the people saying that I shouldn’t expect any special treatment, i’m not…i only asked HOW the stats in the article would AFFECT my chances of admission. but thank you for the help</p>
<p>i go to uwb lol.
I will be out of classes to take in a couple quarters as I finish up the ochem series here. we will see. might have to transfer to wsu :o</p>