Honestly, what are my chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Washington
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<p>Alright, I'm really worried because UW Seattle is pretty much the only college I actually want to go to (and pay for). Here are my stats, with all GPA's being unweighted:</p>

<p>White, in-state</p>

<p>GPA: 3.8 (or 3.67, I'm not sure -- my 9th grade was homeschooled so I just put all those grades as A's)
Class Rank: ~20%, like 60th out of 300 or something
Class Difficulty(AP/Honors): Our school offers 13 AP Classes and 7 Honors classes.</p>

<p>9th Grade: Homeschooled, N/A (though I did take/receive far more credits than most students -- I "took" 4 additional classes)
10th Grade: No honors/AP; my first year in High School - 3.525 GPA this year..
11th Grade: APUSH +AP English, regular everything else - 3.85 GPA this year
12th Grade: AP Gov + AP English, regular everything else - 3.85 GPA so far</p>

<p>I'm at a Spanish 3 level and at Pre-Calculus in math. </p>

<p>SAT Scores:
CR: 690
Math: 530
Writing: 530
Overall: 1750</p>

<p>EC's:
No sports to speak of
Active member of Inter-high (Organizes district-wide events, similar to ASB)/district school board rep (I sit in on our school district's board meetings and report back to the school).
Active Member of both Key and Leo Club (this year)
Went to Mt. Triumph Leadership Camp last year (really incredible experience)
Ran for ASB Junior year; lost.
Member of NHS since start of last year
Volunteering: Expected to be about 100 hours, almost all of them out of school, including ~60 hours at a organization where I have become a pseudo-leader; I can train others and generally help other volunteers with any question. Plus I might do grant writing for them.</p>

<p>Dad/Brother went to UW. </p>

<p>I would really like to include the fact that I am extremely friendly and helpful at school, but not sure how. I pride myself on my ability to go sit with people I don't know who are sitting alone, talk with them about the school, and befriend them and/or connect them with other people around the school. Is this appropriate to put somewhere in one of the essays/5 paragraphs?</p>

<p>I feel decent in my writing abilities, I would consider myself above average though not perfect. I can provide one of, in my opinion, finer essays that I wrote in AP English for an example to you all if needed. I was also wondering if you think that including the fact that I was homeschooled for every year besides 7th grade (of which I have tried to erase from my memory..) up until high school. In the diversity essay, would this be appropriate as something that I had to overcome/makes me different than everyone else? For the main essay, I was going to use the experience of losing my ASB election and that influence on me.</p>

<p>Thoughts? Thanks for reading!</p>

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<p>I think you’ve got a good chance. Right now, you have a plate of grades, test scores, and extra curriculars that you pretty much can’t change (unless you take the sat…soon).</p>

<p>Concentrate on your essays. Yes, you can use an anecdote in your essay to portray your friendliness. As long as your stories are not going off tangent (and just ‘lumped in the essay’) you should be fine writing about them!</p>

<p>One of my good friends was homeschooled K-12. If you can spin the essay to talk about how home schooled going into an actual school makes you different or gives you a different perspective of things than other students, go for it! :slight_smile: Diversity is broad … it’s not just about race and religion. It could be interests, intended major/career, homeschooled, etc. Be creative.</p>

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<p>I got in, for whoever looks at this next year. In some ways I don’t feel like I deserve it, but in other ways I know I put the work into my essays that was necessary to be accepted.</p>

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<p>Congrats =)</p>