<p>What are my chances for getting into UW??
I went to a high school in CA for two years, but I spent my junior year @ Newport HS in Bellevue, WA, where I'll be graduating.
GPA: 3.63
SAT: 1360/1600 (Math & Verbal)
Activities log: MUN (4 yrs), Key Club (4 yrs), piano (12 years), mission trip to China, animal shelter volunteer (2 yrs)
AP Classes taken/taking: US History, Biology, Language, Lit & Comp, Cal AB, Statistics, Comparative Gov & American Gov</p>
<p>I sent in my app 11/25, and it was entered into their system 11/28.
It's been pending since 12/09.
I'm getting a little nervous --</p>
<p>you'll almost certainly get in. Your GPA is respectable and your SATs good. You have some fairly good extracurriculars, so you would have to royally screw up your essay in order to be rejected. Good luck! I'm also applying there, Class of 2011 hopefully.</p>
<p>We have nearly identical stats (3.69; 1340 on M + V; fair share of EC; in-state), and people have said I stand a good chance also, so you should be good! </p>
<p>Collegeboard.com lists last year's UW admitted students' SATs (mid 50 %) as V 520-640 and M as 550-670. The ACTs were 23-28. I am kind of wondering why you are not saying an applicant with a 1360/1600 SAT with a 3.69 and lots of APs, good ecs, in-state etc. is not in for sure. Like, you are a dawg. Go enjoy your senior year. I am OOS with a 29 ACT and slightly lesser GPA from a killer mean hard-grading private school 3.55, 9 APs and 2 Honors courses and equal ecs. 4 years of math, 5 years of foreign lang, both Eng APs, etc. If we scored over last year's 75 percentile test scores and have very strong "strength of curriculum" with a good GPA, do we have to kill ourselves with worry? I applied priority but not for honors. The collegeboard stats seem to show that UW last yr took lots of people with 590 v/m or 26 ACT. Is this year's applicant pool so much better?</p>
<p>Don't worry. I think getting rejected from UW would probably be the worst thing that can ever happen to a Newport student. Really. You'll get in.</p>
<p>thank you, arista. finally someone with a little sense. yeah, i agree with you. though i think that this year's pool mighttt be a little bit more competitive, i dont think that significantly. people on this site are pretty much just insanely worried about not getting in even if their stats are way above the school's average. (hey, i should include myself in that i guess lol) but still, you make a good point. there are many people on here who shouldn't be worrying so much. so maybe i should take some of my own advice.... :)</p>
<p>I think it also has to do with the fact that UW started stressing their 'holistic review' this year... the 'holistic review' has been a part of the admission process for a couple years now but only now are they 'promoting' it, so to speak.</p>
<p>UW admissions IS pretty chaotic, though. I've seen 3.6 gpa's get rejected, so you never know.</p>
<p>not only that, i've seen people everywhere (in real life, on this forum, etc. etc.) who have been applying to UW with near-IVY quality apps (2100, 4.5+, loads of EC + AP, etc.)...</p>
<p>Are the people with near-Ivy apps planning to attend UW? Only if they get into Honors? Is it a safety for tons of people who really want Ivies, LACs or Berkeley and they have no intention of going there? Do you expect good non-Ivy applicants to wait until Feb.,Mar, or, gasp, April???? Or May after these Ivy people turn them down? Agony.</p>
<p>some into honor, yes, but not all...many of them feel that it's a good, solid school to attend (i.e: business), and yes..they hope to attend this school (though not their first choice..but with Ivy colleges as their first, chances are...they're gonna end up in UW...). </p>
<p>And of course, not many can deny that UW's admission is just a tad...well, as nhs stated, "chaotic".</p>
<p>Washington receives about 16,000 applications each year. They admit over 10,000 and 4,800 enroll according to the latest Common Data Set. I cant comment on out of state applicants, so I will keep my comments on instate applicants. First I want to ease the minds of Newport High in Bellevue students. They like you. You have more students from your high school than any other school in the state over 400. Your grade fade is less than the average. Down the road from me is Washougal High School. The average high school GPA of enrolled students is higher than Newport but their UW GPA is .68 less. If you look at small number of rejected students with good grades and good SAT scores you could project those high grades wont necessarily get you in if you just barely met the academic requirements. This would be even truer if your high school had grade fade over .80.</p>
<p>OK, which is the more warped view? Cute, concientious CC students with high GPAs (3.6, 3.7, 3.8) and high scores (1300+/1600 SATs or 29 or 30 ACTs) and lots of APs/Honors courses well above the list UW suggests worrying about admission because this year everyone who wants to go there seems to have even better Ivy-type stats OR the collegeboard website that sez last yr they took people with 600 m/v SATs or 23-28 ACTs????If they get 16,000 apps, take 10,000, who are the 6,000 they reject? Thanks for the reassurance on hardgrading high schools. My cousin in Cali applied to SDSU as a safety and got a letter that they have 52,000 apps for 8,400 spots. They are bowing down to her 27 ACT but she wants UC Santa Barbara. Won't hear from them till March and might not get in. But back to demystifying the "chaotic" UW . . . . . . . .. .</p>
<p>parentofbear, you confirm what I think exactly.</p>
<p>A disappropriate number of students from Newport end up attending the University of Washington. I would say at least 25% percent. There is a culture at Newport of kids aiming really high (Ivy league) or settling for UW. There is almost no in-between.</p>
<p>UW has always received lots of applications from Ivy-league types...</p>
<p>Grade fade is the difference between your high school GPA and GPA in college. Washington publishes results by high school. Example Newport High School- Bellevue, HS GPA 3.64, UW GPA 3.24, Delta -.40, Number of students 417. If this data is historically accurate then you can predict that an applicant from Newport is less risk. And where a decision needs to be made the Newport student will probably get any benefit of the doubt.</p>