<p>I'm sorry.... I know how it feels to be rejected from your top choice. Life is ironic isn't it? I'd happily hand you my acceptance to UW in a heartbeat.</p>
<p>just start you appeal letter with something like: </p>
<p>I am appealing you admissions decision in the light of my accomplishments in spite of personal hardships. Then straight up copy your first post after that.</p>
<p>Oh man, I'm sorry. U of Washington is a great school and you had the scores to get in. I know what you mean about luck, or fate just crapping on you. It seems that colleges this year have been so unfair. I know one girl in my class got into both UCLA and Cal because of her hearing disability. I pretty sure that's why she was a shoo in because she asked me if the USSR was still intact during AP Comparative Gov class...oh well. Colleges have different reasonings for admission, and maybe the class was just filled up? Life sucks, but where have you decided to go? Maybe this was fate telling you that UDub wasn't right for you?</p>
<p>Apeeal because you have nothing to lose.</p>
<p>I am sorry and I do think you should appeal, and that if you do, you would get in. You're in state and your stats are good for UW. It's kind of ridiculous for them to deny you even though you sent them the required information. I also hope you beat your brother up</p>
<p>You could go to a community college for a year then transfer...UW holds places for such students.</p>
<p>If that is unappealing go to the UW website and findout how to appeal. They will re-examine your application. Just know that they will not meet until late April at the earliest.</p>
<p>If you appeal, make sure you focus on your strengths, not what you posted. It sounds slightly negative. Stay positive. Also, I would talk to your HS college counselor. He/she might have mentioned the absences and project thing. Findout what kind of rec it was...sometimes they have to include everything.</p>
<p>Also, if you can get another very good to excellent rec from the counselor or a teacher do it as well. Let them know of any other positives that have happened since January.</p>
<p>Good luck. I'm in-state too, and I wish I could give you my space. I'm declining UDubs offer of admission.</p>
<p>IB</p>
<p>i had a sister that pulled that sleepy act every morning and made me tardy a few times. she was a terrible driver too. i have two parents that have to go to work early in the morning. so what were my options? i took the bus a couple of times, got a ride from a few friends. then, i got a job and bought a car. now, i don't have to deal with my sisters frequent bad driving and tardiness. the idea is, you take control of your life and be empowered enough to do something so you don't fail the class. you had built up tardies before that and didn't do anything about that. you needed to get yourself together after the first tardy. </p>
<p>as for the UW rejecting you, all i can say is that they have been using a holistic approach and looking at personal statements and the like. so even if your stats weren't as good, your ability to write was more important this year. plus, there was also an extra box for you to explain anything that needed explaining so doing it there would have been better than here where it really won't change anything.</p>
<p>There's No Freaking God!!</p>
<p>this such a ****ing tragedy</p>
<p>How did the appeal go for you?</p>
<p>i've been looking through your previous posts, and i really do not think you have a case for an appeal. you seem to think that you have a divine right to an education at the UW or something - you don't. your gpa may be relatively high, but you have taken no ap courses (at a questionable Christian school in... (the ghettos of) Tacoma (most likely) which probably isn't at all rigorous to boot). not sure about your essays, but you definitely seem to have an affinity for writing 'drama queen' posts which place blame on others, something admission officers aren't fond of.</p>
<p>most of the people with lower stats who got in are students at a major UW feeder school on the east side (such as Bellevue High School, Newport, etc.) which are well known for their academic excellence. there was a kid with a 3.0 who got in (on these boards). one of my friends got in with a 2.9, for instance. of course, they took a much more challenging courseload than you.</p>
<p>as for UW 'losing your family information' in January.... i sent in my application after the Priority deadline and got in. My friend sent her application within minutes of the January deadline and got in (before me, to boot). so UW 'losing your family information' wouldn't have affected your decision, anyhow. besides, if your application was considered 'good', you would've moved to the front of the accept list anyhow.</p>
<p>before casting me as a basher, i would like to point out that i supported you and offered advice on one of your previous postings (before you got rejected) using a different CC username. i really did think you would make it, but this is life.</p>
<p>good luck at a community college. community college -> poor -> death, right?</p>
<p>All out of your control?</p>
<p>You let the tardies accumulate. It's your responsibility to keep track, and your fault for cutting it so close to the line. And about the makeup work/project? It's also your responsibility to get the details. You said you tried, but apparently you gave up too soon. Especially in a situation where it may mean failing a class. As for them "loosing" your family information? You could have and should have followed up with them to make sure. Sure, it's their mistake, but you could have prevented it.</p>
<p>Learn to show some initiative and take charge. Your mistake was relying too much on others to spoon feed you and rectify your problems.</p>
<p>Come on people, cut this person a break. He/she is venting over getting rejected from his/her first choice college. I don't think any of us are in the place to lecture him/her about how he/she should have done something about what he/she maybe kinda sorta had some minor control over. Let's face it. Crap happens sometimes no matter how smart/responsible we like to cast ourselves as being. Do you think this person will suddenly try to take control of everything that she might kinda be able to maybe in a way just because somebody dissed him/her on some college message board? Probably not. All this crapola will just make this person feel worse when he/she's already feeling lousy. Have a heart, people.To the OP, this really really sucks, but everything has a way of working out in the end. Like a few people said, you can always transfer if that's what you think you wanna do.</p>
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1 - Junior year - I fail a class because my stupid brother never woke up on time and got me enough tardies to get me to do a reinstatement project
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Was it too much to simply set an alarm?</p>
<p>You guys...</p>
<p>seriously. I'm not *<strong><em>in about the rejection or anything, don't take it the wrong way. The only reason community college is a bit..irksome..for me is NOT because I think people who go there will be poor and die *ahem, eltarego</em>. My parents are just against it, simple enough? My dad's a doc, so imagine how humiliating it is for him to say that his first son is headin to a CC first year among all of those lexus-driving sons of a *</strong>*es who brag about their ivy league kids. I'm actually fine with going there, since more of my friends are going to the same community college that I'm planning on heading over to. Also, it's a 2 minute drive there, + I get to hang out with my family. Definitely cool with me. </p>
<p>To the people lecturing me on holding myself responsible and such: You guys have good points here and there, but for the most part, you can't go lashing out on me over something you only know some of the details of. There was plenty more behind everything that happened that no CC ers should have no business knowing. I'm not a <strong><em>ing retard, I know that these aren't reasons that have 0% fault on my part. I know better. It was just a shock that I got rejected, that's all. Every single person that knew me IRL expected that I get accepted to UW. It was a given for everyone, and I was the only one just a bit hesitant about it. And look whats happened. It's been *</em></strong>ing me off when people that I'm not even friends with try to console me saying *** like "oh, I wish I could give you my acceptance letter there" and blah blah blah. **** em. It's not the fact that I got rejected from the place, it's really the hysteria and **** that the rejection's been bringing for me, not just from friends, but from parents and such as well.</p>
<p>I could honestly not care what people are suggesting on whether to appeal or not. Nothing to lose on my part. If they don't even read it and reject, I'm cool with that. I have plans with community for a year and then transferring. It's just a matter of having my family accepting it, which they are having a hard time with. If I do get accepted, which is very unlikely, then I STILL might not go. I had backup ideas in case such an unusual case of me getting rejected from UW would happen. </p>
<p>And to top it off...yougotjohn, alarms dont do **** for my siblings. k thx, all I had to say people.</p>
<p>where did you get into?</p>
<p>Can't see why people would think you're bitter.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, I'm sympathetic to your situation, but you are accountable for your own actions, don't blame your brother. He probably SHOULD have woken you up, but you cannot truly rely on anyone but yourself. The sooner you learn that, the better.</p>
<p>that sucks dude.
i've heard some stories before, but urs by far, is the most ridiculous one.
i can already picture how "Mrs. Smith" looked like, and her attitude towards ur complaint. being a korean myself, i know how hard it is to get white-authorities to understand situations such as urs (SORRY! IM NOT A RACIST). Anyway, don't go shoot urself in the mouth cuz it is definately not worth it. I woudnt normally stir up anyone to commit violations against the law, but if it will help u not commit suicide, try egging whoever's car it is that led to ur ultimate rejection. (namely ur brother. I i were u i would make him eat lightbulbs.)
I WISH U LUCK-
DONT KILL URSELF FELLOW ASIAN</p>
<p>Well, sorry to say, but you really do have to take on some responsibility. I got rejected in places, but I gotten over it and didn't blame anybody. Its your job to keep up with your attendence, no matter what. (ask for a printout, don't just ask the teacher!!)</p>
<p>And it might be partially due to your stats. Whole bunch of people applied to 10,000 colleges and both your SATs (oh 2nd one's better though, didn't notice that.. I thought that was SATII for a sec) and GPA's kind of weak... People got rejected from safeties everywhere. Just goto whereever you were accepted to or if you really want to go, send an appeal or something. Good luck</p>
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being a korean myself, i know how hard it is to get white-authorities to understand situations such as urs
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<p>WHA??? I'm korean and I never had that problem (and i live in rich preppy white people suburbs) Well, that might be also because I get really ****ed off if something like that happened to me and i show them piece of my mind... Its not because we are asian he had this problem. Its because nobody told him about the stupid phone call in the first place. Gah.</p>
<p>"He probably SHOULD have woken you up, but you cannot truly rely on anyone but yourself."</p>
<p>Huh? I thought it was the brother that overslept, not the OP?</p>