<p>Hey all,</p>
<p>Like in previous years, let's compile a thread of admissions decisions.</p>
<p>Please state:
1) Accepted, Waitlisted, Rejected
2) GPA
3) Test scores
4) Brief description of extra curricular activities
5) Brief description of essays</p>
<p>Son was accepted.</p>
<p>GPA - High school 3.9 uw
Running Start - 3.86 - 41 credits - heavy in math, lab science, & cse</p>
<p>Test Scores - 1780 (not great at standardized tests, very good at actual class tests)</p>
<p>Is taking Calculus 1 this quarter</p>
<p>Computer Science AP test - 3</p>
<p>Activities: Boy Scouts 9, 10, 11, 12; High School Soccer Team 10; Captain of YMCA Soccer Team 9, 10; Youth Group Leader 11, 12; Baseball Assistant Coach 10, 11; County Food Bank Volunteer 9, 10, 11, AP Computer Class Representative 10, 11,</p>
<p>Awards: President’s Academic Excellence Award, Vice-President’s List, Eagle Scout, Elected Order of Arrow, Most Employable Student at in High School Computer Science, Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society</p>
<p>He has worked 20-25 hours a week since he turned 16 and has been a crew trainer. He is now in training to be a crew leader at his current job.</p>
<p>Where was the running start at?</p>
<p>South Puget Sound Community College</p>
<p>Also, in the thread I think people should put In State or OOS because apparently OOS will be a lot more competative this year.</p>
<p>mom2squirts - did your son’s my uw id status change yet? Curious about mine since I’m all the way on the East coast.
congrats!!!</p>
<p>No slideaway it hasn’t. I suspect they sent the letters early to circumvent some of the online hysteria. I’ve been checking like crazy. 
But that is only a guess.</p>
<p>I can’t edit my post up there so I will add his essay topics:</p>
<p>Being bullied at scout camp and persevering and succeeding in leadership roles in scouts.</p>
<p>How hosting and befriending leg. pages from all over the state and all different nationalities and backgrounds made a difference in his life and views. Also, we have a foreign exchange student and he has changed our lives as well. </p>
<p>Eagle scout project - Built & supervised a $10,000 wheelchair ramp for a non-profit organization</p>
<p>Job - he has been working since he turned 16 and has been in supervisory roles nearly as long</p>
<p>AP Computer Science Class Legislative Representative - he would give tours and speak to politicians on why the cse programs and other tech classes should not be cut. He was selected by his teacher.</p>
<p>Youth group leader & mission trip to Poland</p>
<p>Youth 8-10 years old assist. baseball coach </p>
<p>He was homeschooled until 10th grade, then he took ap classes at public school. Then off to running start where he has excelled.</p>
<p>So you can see that your ECs don’t have to all be school focused.</p>
<p>Good luck to you all! I’m rooting for you!</p>
<p>Accepted!</p>
<p>Use this format to simplify things. Can’t wait to check my mail (hopefully it’s there). Anyway, can’t wait to hear everyone’s acceptances. Remember, remove the spaces for it to work. Oh yeah, just checked, Got Accepted…yay…</p>
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<p>Here is the template that will help you post your decisions:</p>
<p>Pick one:
[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]
[ size=+2][ color=orange][ b]Decision: Waitlisted[ /b][ /color][ /size]
[ size=+2][ color=red][ b]Decision: Rejected[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown):
[ *] ACT:
[ *] SAT II:
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load:
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:
[ *] Summer Activities:
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recommendation:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Additional Rec:
[ *] Interview:
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?:
[ *] Intended Major:
[ *] State (if domestic applicant):
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ *] Income Bracket:
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths:
[ *] Weaknesses:
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/denied:
[ /list][ b]General Comments:[ /b]</p>
<p>I got my acceptance letter today :-)</p>
<p>3.8 GPA, 1870 SAT. 5 APs/4 Honors classes total. I was a peer tutor my sophomore year and a Key Club member junior year. I am a member of National Honor Society and have been a part of our newspaper staff for three years (Head Features Editor/Managing Editor). I am also a executive mentor for our freshman transitioning into high school program (which I’ve done for two years).</p>
<p>My personal statement was about my having to change schools my freshman year and how it has affected me and has led me to becoming the person I am today. My short response was about the cultural differences between my parents and I (my parents having been non-English speaking immigrants, whereas I have lived in the U.S. my entire life).</p>
<p>I am also in-state. Good luck to everyone else!</p>
<p>Perhaps this thread can be the discussion thread and JUST decision stats can be posted in another using the format Raamzic posted. Just to keep things nice and organized. I know that’s what other school subforums have done and it always seems to be more useful for others if it’s like that.</p>
<p>Just came home to the big envelope! :)</p>
<p>3.926 gpa, 1800 SAT, six AP classes including this year, church worship leader for four years, wrote essay about my leadership in the worship band</p>
<p>1) Accepted, waiting on Foster admission
2) 3.75 GPA 4 AP’s, 4 Honors
3) 2010 SAT
4) In order of personal significance-
→ Church youth group involvement/leadership
→ JSA (debate club) Held school and regional fundraising position
→ ASB (school leadership) Fundraising coordinator
→ Key Club (community service) DIDN’T count hours from church towards this
→ Work over summer, 35 hr work weeks
5) Essays-
→ 1) How I chose to give a speech in front of my school for a talent competition. Why I chose to do an inspirational speech instead of some oddball talent
→ 2) Connecting a mission trip I took to Kenya with the homeless work I’ve done in DT Seattle and especially highlighted diversity (or lack thereof, because we’re all humans with the same needs)</p>
<p>Additional comments
-PSAT commended scholar
-Volunteer little league baseball coach</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Critical Reading: 640, Math: 650, Writing: 510
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: N/A
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98 at high school, 4.00 at Bellevue College (Running Start)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): I don’t know.
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Calculus IV, Engineering Physics, and Computer Science 210 and 211, but I took Calculus I-III in my junior year and got As in all three of those.
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): I didn’t put down any rewards I received in my UW application, except for this Polio award I got.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Rotaract(leadership), Youth board in which we decide which nonprofits to allocate grants towards(leadership), collaborated with two of my friends to compose an Invisible Children Book Drive at our high school(leadership), World Polio Day volunteer, and piano lessons.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Worked part time at a retail store since August 2011.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: World Polio Day volunteer, Northwest Harvest volunteer, I can’t think of may others.
[<em>] Summer Activities: N/A
[</em>] Essays: Talked about being gay in a traditional Chinese household and how that affected me personally. I also talked about being Chinese American in my cultural diversement essay.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: My calculus teacher wrote me a letter of recommendation for something else, but he stated that I had the highest average of the 97 students in my Calculus I class, and then I was in the top 10 percent of the class for Calculus II and Calculus III. (sigh) If only the CS department accepted letter of recommendations.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: N/A
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview: N/A
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Computer Science
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Washington
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): United States
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Chinese-American
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Around $50000
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Chinese-American? Rotaract. Running Start?
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Math, piano, hard worker, part time worker, and youth board.
[<em>] Weaknesses: Writing
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/denied: I think it was mainly because of my GPA, and they might’ve considered the courses I have taken.
[/ul]General Comments:
I did not get notified of whether I got Direct Admission into the Computer Science department yet.</p>
<p>Re-formatted mine…</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 1800 total - 690 M 600 W 510 R
[</em>] ACT: n/a
[<em>] SAT II: n/a
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.926
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/198
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Calc AB (4) AP English 11 AP Lit AP Chemistry AP Calc BC AP Chemistry AP American Government
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Stated in AP section
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None really
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Church Worship Team (Started and led team for past four years)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Babysat for past year
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Regular camp counselor for summer kids camp at church
[<em>] Summer Activities: ^
[</em>] Essays: Wrote about creating my church worship team and how it shaped the leader I am today
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: N/a
[</em>] Counselor Rec: N/a
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/a
[</em>] Interview: N/a
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Computer Science
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Washington
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Most diverse school in the nation, low-income community
[</em>] Ethnicity: Ethiopian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: $90,000
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Definitely essays and GPA
[<em>] Weaknesses: Probably test scores, my reading score was low
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/denied: My essays really portayed my character and my passion for serving in the church
[/ul]</p>
<p>Pick one:
[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 2130 (720 math, 720 writing, 690 cr)
[ *] ACT: 34
[ *] SAT II: N/A
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/169
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): Biology (5), European History (4), Psychology (5), English Language (4)
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics B, AP Calculus AB, AP English Literature, AP Spanish Language, US History, theology
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended Scholar
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Theatre department (vp of Drama Club, vp of International Thespian Society), Speech and Debate Team (captain), school ambassador, school recruiter
[ *] Job/Work Experience: paid zoo intern
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: volunteered at the zoo before interning, sing in church choir, work at food bank
[ *] Summer Activities: volunteered at camp fire camps, zoo
[ *] Essays: my first one was about how when I played a cat onstage it influenced my personality and my second one was about living in a multi religious family.
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: N/A
[ *] Counselor Rec: N/A
[ *] Additional Rec: N/A
[ *] Interview: N/A
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[ *] Intended Major: Chemical Engineering
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): Washington
[ *] Country (if international applicant): N/A
[ *] School Type: Catholic
[ *] Ethnicity: white
[ *] Gender: female
[ *] Income Bracket: $80,000
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): legacy to UW
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths: my extra curriculars
[ *] Weaknesses: my essays - I am self conscience about my writing
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/denied:good grades and being a legacy!
[ /list][ b]General Comments:[ /b]</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): Math/Critical Reading Score: 1410/1600—>only two scores that I honestly think matterX)
ACT: N/A
SAT II: N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.89
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/289
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP World History, AP Language and Composition, AP Biology, AP Calculus AB and AP Government
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Washington State Scholars Nomination (Top 1% of graduating students in the state of Washington)</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Relay for Life (Team Captain, 3 yrs); Green Team (Secretary and Treasurer, 3 yrs); National Honor Society (2yrs); Key Club (2 yrs); Varsity Football (2 yrs); Varsity Track and Field (2 yrs)</p>
<pre><code>Essays: I think I wrote one about a big decision I made in choosing high schools, which I thought was quite significant at the time (two very powerful and prestigious private schools vs. one lonely “ghetto” public school). Another essay I wrote was about a racial incident I overcame when I first begun attending the aforementioned public school. By the way, choosing the public school is the best choice I could have ever made; not that it matters to anyone else besides me.
Teacher Recommendation: N/A
Counselor Rec: N/A
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: N/A
</code></pre>
<p>Other</p>
<pre><code>Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Biochemistry
State (if domestic applicant): Washington
Country (if international applicant): United States
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Japanese-American
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Around $120,000 annually
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None that I know of; although, many of my relatives went to UW for their undergraduate education.
</code></pre>
<p>Reflection</p>
<pre><code>Strengths: Well-rounded applicant (GPA, test scores, activities, etc.), essay (diction, hooks and overall style)
Weaknesses: Essay topics could have been more heartfelt
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/denied: I think I was accepted because I had many qualifications that they looked for, and more importantly, I didn’t have many things that would have raised RED FLAGS on my application. In addition, my essays had a very urbane feeling to them; very suave I must say;)
</code></pre>
<p>General Comments:
The University of Washington was one of my fall back schools. Now, I must continue to wait for my tougher applications to be answered!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[li] SAT I (breakdown): 2050 M:670 R:640 W:740</p>[/li]
<p>[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98/4.0
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 30/433
[<em>] Junior Year Course Load: 5 APs (Lang, Physic BC, APUSH, Spanish, Biology)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 4 APs (Calc, Physic C, Art, Psych)</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): member of youth group (group leader for a year), peer tutor
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: , various small community service
[<em>] Summer Activities: Volunteer @ library, food bank, attended WA Business Week, internship at Taiwan FDA
[</em>] Essays: Wrote about trying new and unusual food in Taiwan</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?:Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Biology
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Washington
[</em>] School Type: Public, competitive
[<em>] Ethnicity: Taiwanese
[</em>] Gender: Male</p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: GPA! maybe essay
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT, leadership
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/denied: I think they liked the strong GPA and essays[/li][/ul]**General Comments:**I think the fact that they allowed more instate students to enroll this year helped.</p>
<p>why are you saying your SAT is a weakness? It is well above the average for UW. I’m not sure why you would go around saying that.</p>
<p>Pick one:
[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): CR 790, M 740, W 730
[ *] ACT: Didn’t take
[ *] SAT II: Chinese 800, Chemistry 750, Math II 740 (didn’t study lol)
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): HS 3.96, Running Start 3.98
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Really bad because of Running Start…
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): Statistics (5), World History (5), Chinese (5) (10th grade)
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: (all Running Start) Calc 4, Drama 101, Engish Lit, Poli Sci, US Hist, Calc 5, Physics (Calc-based), Medical Terminology
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, Community Service (>100 hrs)
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Dance (13 years), Music (10 years), Chinese Club (Secretary 11th grade; President 12th grade), Bible study
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Paid tutoring
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Food bank, Participation in a non-profit orchestra
[ *] Summer Activities: Mission trip (teaching English in Taiwan), Ballet summer intensives every year
[ *] Essays: Learning to become more hard-working and determined in order to overcome my challenge of being the shortest person in my dance class; Coming from a very homogenous high school and adjusting to interacting with people of diverse backgrounds when I started tutoring for my community college
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: N/A
[ *] Counselor Rec: N/A
[ *] Additional Rec:N/A
[ *] Interview: N/A
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes, but I don’t think I’m going to get any
[ *] Intended Major: Put down math and statistics, but I think I’m actually going to do math and biology
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): WA
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: Very competitive
[ *] Ethnicity: Chinese-American
[ *] Gender: F
[ *] Income Bracket: >100,000
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I think…everything about me is kind of anti-hook =P
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths: GPA, SAT, class rigor…?
[ *] Weaknesses: Extracurriculars could’ve been stronger =P
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/denied: I heard that they really like Running Start students. But anyway, I’m really glad I got in! =D
[ /list][ b]General Comments: Congrats to everyone else who got in! =)[ /b]</p>