***OFFICIAL UW FRESHMAN '24 THREAD*** ADMISSIONS/PREPARATION

STATS:
Rank, percentile rank, or percentile range (if available):
Comments about course load (including senior year):
SAT (total and sections):
ACT (total and sections):
SAT Subject Tests (if any):
AP exams (scores in parentheses):
IB exams (score in parentheses):
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:

For the following, indicate level of recognition or award (e.g. local, state, national, international) and/or leadership roles:
Extracurriculars:
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service:
Summer Activities:

Essays (topics, details):

Demographics

State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant):
High school type:

Gender:
Race/ethnicity:

Applied for need-based financial aid?:
Pell grant eligible?:
Maximum Pell grant (FAFSA EFC = $0)?:

Highest level of parent education:
Living with both, one, or no parents?:
Relation to alumni of college:

Reflection

Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:

General Comments:

Hi, has anyone received the login information for UW portal? Based on the website “Freshman applicants will be sent instructions to set up their NetID in December”.

Yes, I have received mine yesterday! Check your inbox to make sure.

Hi, please let me know my chances!

Gender: Female
Age: 17
Ethnicity: Black/African American
In-State
From low-income family

Status: Running start student / High school Senior (I’ve been taking classes full time at Highline College since my junior year)

Highschool GPA: 3.78
College GPA: 3.71

SAT SCORES: 1290 (690Math/600WRI/REA) - I’m planning to retake during March. Can I still send that score afterwards?

ACT SCORE: 21

CLASSES:

FALL 2018: Vice-president Honor Roll - GPA: 3.90

*BIO 160
*BUSN 135 (elective)
*General CHEM I / LAB

Winter 2019: Vice-president Honor Roll - GPA: 3.83

*BIO211
*General CHEM II / LAB
*Calculus I

Spring 2019: Vice-president Honor Roll - GPA: 3.63

*BIO212
*General CHEM III / LAB
*Calculus II

Summer 2019: Vice-president Honor Roll - GPA: 3.75

*BIO213
*ENG101

Fall 2019: GPA-3.47 (tough quarter)

*ART171
*Organic CHEM I / LAB
*Physics I / Lab

ESSAY: okay (7/10)

Volunteer (30+hrs): Tutored at my local library

Work Experience (3 months - present): Tutored for a program at my college

Class Rank: 18/211

STATS:
Out-of-state (Idaho)
Asian Male
High-Income
Electrical Engineering

GPA: 3.98 UW/4.34 W
Rank: 5/412
Course load: Heavy AP/Advanced STEM Emphasis
ACT: 31 (E: 35 M: 28 R: 30 S: 31)

AP exams:

Taken:
Calculus BC (5) [AB Subscore: 5]
Statistics (5)
Chinese (5)
US History (5)
English Lang (4)
Seminar (4)
Computer Science A (4)
Computer Science Principles (4)
Physics 1 (3)

Planned:
Physics C E & M
English Lit
Research
Music Theory
Microeconomics

Major Awards:
AP National Scholar (National)
President’s Award for Education (National)
All-State Musician Choir
2017 Gene Harris Jazz Festival Outstanding Soloist (Regional)

Extracurriculars:
Choir: Section Leader in Chamber Choir, Made All-State, Soloist Award
Cross Country: Team Senior, Varsity Letter
Track and Field: Varsity Letter
Computer Science Club: Vice-President and founder
Boise Modern Chinese School: Studied Chinese Language and Culture to prepare for the AP Chinese exam
AP Capstone Program: Currently working on research in the field of Computer Science

Job/Work Experience: Foodservice (not on application)

Volunteer/Community service:
NJHS: 30 hours (9th grade)
NHS: 20 hours (12th grade)
Misc. Volunteering: 100+ hours (not on application)

Summer Activities:
Tutoring (part of Misc. Volunteering, not on application)

Essays (topics, details):
Personal Statement: Running the mile and how it relates to my desire to continue pursuing
Short Answer: My desire to have a full-plate of extracurriculars in a limited window of time
Honors 1: My openness to risk-taking exploring interdisciplinary topics
Honors 2: Comparing 2 unrelated subjects and bringing them together to solve a world issue: Choir and Government and solving Political Polarization

Highest level of parent education: Doctorate
Living with both, one, or no parents?: Both
Relation to alumni of college: Father worked as Post-Doc, Cousin Masters

Sumaya15 - The deadline to submit test scores is 12/31/19. Sending scores in March, will be too late. In fact, decisions will be released between March 1 and March 15.

Anyone know what day decisions were released last year?

For the most part, in looking at last years acceptance thread, students were admitted starting Dec 7. A handful of students, Presidential Scholars, heard sooner, but very few. Rejects and waitlist received emails starting then, everyone else had to go into their portal to see acceptances.

I meant March 7, not Dec 7.

Female
Asian-American (Japanese but have US citizenship)
high-income

my stats are ok compared to my peers at school, but i hope that i get in.

STATS:
no rank or percentile stuff available
GPA* 3.97
Comments about course load (including senior year):
SAT (total and sections): 1430 (680 R&W, 750 math)
SAT Subject Tests (if any): 630 us history and 680 math level 2 but didnt send these
AP exams (scores in parentheses): APUSH (5); now taking AP Calc AB, AB Chinese, AP Economics

Subjective:
Extracurriculars:
Job/Work Experience: working at mom’s restaurant for the past few years.
Volunteer/Community service: RAC (380 hours max), manager and participated for volunteer activity (60 hours), Japanese tutor (300 hours max), track and field manager, etc.
Summer Activities: same part-time job as above and summer school

Essays (topics, details):
Personal statement- wrote about my challenge on how I had to be the translator for my schools president and teachers from Japanese exchange school for the first time and how I overcame the cultural preconceptions of Japanese= graceful, dont disappoint anyone, etc. and learned to persevere despite my introverted nature.

Short answer: How my job experience to broaden my perspective as I travel abroad as I interacted with co-workers and customers back home in Japan.

Demographics

State (if domestic applicant): CA
High school type: private boarding school

didnt apply for financial aid.

Highest level of parent education: Lawyer Doctorate
Living with both, one, or no parents?: Living with both
Relation to alumni of college: none

Anyone have a feeling decisions will be released on March 13th? Oh and do you hear by mail or email first?

@furniture In the past, portal updates occurred for those accepted, those not accepted or waitlisted received an email. March 13 seems a bit late. But I guess we wait and see

Does UW send merit award $ with acceptance notifications? Or is it sent later?

We just visited UW and they said you get everything in your acceptance letter–acceptance, merit/aid $, and direct admit info if applicable.

Thank you!

Should we assume this will be the thread to post admission decisions when they come out between Mar 1-15?

I think so

Ok so I’m an idiot and didn’t know that official scores were required to be submitted online. Will my application still be considered at this point? I never received any emails about missing materials and I’ve been getting the recent emails regarding the upcoming decision.

by the way here are my stats:

GPA (w): 4.17, no unweighted but id guess around a 3.8 or so
SAT (total and sections): 1400 (690, 710 regret not studying more)
SAT Subject Tests (if any): 700 biology e didn’t submit
AP exams (scores in parentheses): AP Biology (4)

  • high honor roll all 4 years, national chinese honors society for 2

Extracurriculars:

  • study abroad in shanghai for chinese language/culture summer after sophomore year
  • president of asian culture club
  • 3 years varsity tennis (coaches award/ marathon player award, doesnt really matter)
  • 3 years basketball (1 year jv (sharpshooter award, again doesnt really matter), 2 years varsity)
  • senior class secretary
  • chinese speech contest (didnt win anything)
  • chess club vp

Volunteering:

  • science camp volunteering
  • beach cleanups
  • weak aspect of my application

Essays (topics, details):

  • Submitted a short story I wrote for english about driving as a metaphor for missing youth (really abstract and weird)

Demographics

State (if domestic applicant): California
High school type: private (250 kids, allows me to get a lot of ecs but the academics are tough)

Gender:
Race/ethnicity: mixed white and asian

Applied for need-based financial aid?: yes

Highest level of parent education: doctorate
Living with both, one, or no parents?: both but alternating, middle of divorce
Relation to alumni of college: none

got rejected from both middlebury (ED1, applied bc i wanted to pursue chinese and their language program is really strong) and tufts (ED2) for early decision admission

@alexlin02 Do the emails from UW you received about decisions indicate a date they will start coming out? Or just the standard March 1-15. My D hasn’t mentioned any emails, so as a parent, I’m in the dark.