<p>For someone who got accepted to these schools or similar schools, please chance me?</p>
<p>It's my junior year right now and I'm doing dual enrollment for some classes including physics, us history, and biology. I'm also taking honors algebra 2 in my normal high school and the rest are regular. I took AP government and AP microecon my sophomore year. Honors geography my freshman year. </p>
<p>EC's:
choir, theater, JV golf, 4H- freshman year
JV golf, 4H (treasurer)- sophomore year
JV golf, 4H- junior year
will definitely be continuing golf and 4h senior year</p>
<p>The only award I got was for my GPA of 3.8</p>
<p>I regularly volunteer at a farm every weekend, volunteered at an animal shelter freshman year and sophomore year, and i'm going to be volunteering at a hospital. </p>
<p>I just got a job at an animal hospital as well. </p>
<p>I know nothing is really consistent except 4h and golf but do you think that would be ok because the colleges see that I volunteer a lot at places mostly dealing with animals?</p>
<p>I would most likely major in chemistry or neuroscience and be pre-med. </p>
<p>I don’t know about Indiana, but you’ve got a great shot at UW. As long as your SAT/ACT is above 1650/22 (their average), you should be fine. Sounds like you’re pretty invested in 4H and volunteering with animals, so that would give you a great essay topic. I don’t know why you wouldn’t get in (:</p>
<p>I don’t know where nerdfighter’s statistics come from, but my son was waitlisted by UW last year with 2060/31 scores. He was not applying to one of UW’s competitive divisions, like Engineering or Computer Science, either. </p>
<p>youll get into IU no doubt</p>
<p>@woogzmama I was just looking at UW’s website for the scores. I meant 25 for the ACT (must’ve been looking at something else when I typed that), but yeah that’s their middle 50%. Were you out of state? Otherwise it must have been something else that got your son waitlisted because he’d have been at the top of their score range.</p>
<p>@nerdfighter23 - We were pretty surprised, considering the fact that he was accepted at more selective colleges. It could have been that they sensed a lack of serious interest, but that seems unlikely with a university that large. His unweighted GPA was nothing special, but he did the full-IB curriculum, with additional AP courses, and therefore had a strong enough weighted GPA to get into UCSD and Davis. We’re from the East Coast. He got into some pretty competitive private colleges on the West Coast, also, including Pitzer, Whitman, and Occidental. My son theorized that certain recent changes in Washington state laws led to a (pun intended) higher application rate. He heard anecdotal reports of similar increases in Colorado. I point out his wait-listing whenever I see people on this site indicating that UWashington-Seattle is an easy admit. Some of their STEM programs are very selective, furthermore.</p>
<p>@woogzmama Yeah I really have no idea why he was waitlisted. It’s certainly not easy to get into, but plenty of people do. I know since it is a state university that they go for mostly in-state first, so that’s the only thing I can see that would get him a spot on a the waitlist. I’m in Washington, and plenty of people with lower scores I know get in all the time, so I can’t really explain that one haha.</p>
<p>I think it’s perfectly fair and reasonable for public universities to give their own state residents preference in admissions. I certainly expected that it would be more difficult for my son to get into UW from out-of-state, but we were still a little surprised that UCSD accepted him and UW did not.</p>
<p>I know both of these schools well, having lived in Seattle for more than 10 years plus earning a masters degree from IU.</p>
<p>Definitely easier to get into IU than UW, and also IU is far more likely to award you some good out of state financial aid. The UW wants their out of state students to pay full tuition. So, merit scholarships are very rare. IU is not especially generous, but does give some aid.</p>
<p>Both campuses are very nice, but I might give the nod to IU (other than the fact that you will never see snow capped mountains in the distance). The city of Seattle has more to do than does Bloomington… on the other hand, the area immediately next to IU is nicer than the area immediately next to UW (which is not bad, however).</p>
<p>If you love animals, it seems to me that you will find more opportunities at IU. It is close to rural areas, and also happens to have something called the Center for Integrative Study of Animal Behavior. I don’t think UW has anything of that nature.</p>