PLEASE chance me for my dream school!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I have wanted to go to University of Washington for years now. I have fallen in love with their zoology and ASL programs and I absolutely love Seattle. UW is the place that I want to be. I am posting this because my GPA is lower than their usual admittance, but they are holistic and so I’m hoping some of my other stats will balance it out. Any suggestions on bolstering my application would be greatly appreciated!

OOS, competitive high school
I am a rising white female senior. I have a projected GPA of 3.5 (I had a 2.0 freshman year, big problems at home, but nevertheless…) and will have completed 5 APs by the end of senior year.
I had all honors classes junior year except for one AP (Psychology) and am taking 4 AP classes senior year (English Lit and Comp, European History, Latin V, Environmental Science).

I got a 5 on the AP Psych test.

=>SAT: 2120 second try
SAT II:
World History- 740
Latin- 780
Biology- 720

=>Work Experience:
~Animal shelter volunteer, logged 300+ hours
~Assistant manager at town pool summer 2014
~Employee at local animal hospital since beginning of 2016
~Intern for 2 separate candidates of state assembly. Did campaigning, canvassing, and phone calls.
~Intern for candidate for congress this year (spring 2016-fall 2016)
~to-be Intern for senator in Ireland summer of 2016
~Will be working with Carnegie Mellon professor on biophysical research taking notes and possibly analyzing data August 2016

=>Clubs
~President of our chapter of HSDA (high school dems of america- nationally recognized)
~Latin Academic Team (nationally recognized) all four years.
~Vice President of Latin Club 2015-2016 (have participated since freshman year)
~one international club involved fundraising $30,000 for this year’s conference

=>Sports:
~Freshman Crew(rowing)
–>placed/medaled three times in the season

=>My website (thepromethean.co)
~gets about 3,000 unique visitors per month and growing
~focuses on giving teens a voice in creative writing and provides a platform to publish their work
~I do all social media work and taught myself graphic design and coding

=>Other:
~took a class on marine biology at Pittsburgh Zoo in 2014
~National Latin Exam Cum Laude 2012
~National Latin Exam Cum Laude 2013
~National Latin Exam Maxima Cum Laude 2014
~National Latin Exam Summa Cum Laude 2015
~Hopefully National Latin Exam Summa Cum Laude March 2016
~Gold Medal Etymology Exam 2016
~Gold Medal Roman History Exam 2016

=>Part of National Juniors Classics League
~Latin Academic Team distinguished in Certamen 2016

=>Writing Awards:
Finalist in ARI Essay Contest 2015
Silver Medal Scholastic Poetry Art and Writing Awards 2014

=>Teacher Recs:
University of Washington does not accept recs.

I have the finances to fund myself for OOS tuition so that is not a problem.

Thank you in advance!!

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also, if it helps, my gpa has an upward trend.
Freshman: 2.0
Sophomore: 3.3 (still going through family stuff first semester)
Junior: 4.0

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You are very competitive for the University of Washington (or do you mean Washington University in St Louis? These are two different schools). I would even say you could aim a bit higher. The only thing I could recommend would be to explain in the additional information section of the Common App any family problems that might provide some context for a low freshman GPA. The upward trend is great! Best of luck!

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@thetsaria yes, i do mean university of washington in seattle! And thank you!!

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anyone else?

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you are in buddy.

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I think that you’ll definitely get in. If you would like to, I think that it would be worth it to explain your family circumstances in the Extenuating Circumstances or Additional Information section of the application.

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You’re in.

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@charhunt17 I believe that you will be admitted; depending on the University of Washington’s merit aid programs, you may even be awarded some scholarship funds—however, I am no expert on UW’s scholarship funding, especially for out-of-state applicants, so bear that in mind.

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You definitely stand a good chance, if not a great one;
and I don’t think your GPA will weigh you down very much.
Your EC’s are definitely fantastic, and it’s great you have many awards in some of them.

Chance me? http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/19340090#Comment_19340090

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@satprep3067 @pineapplepizza98 @Komz1304 @aBitOfLuck @dkcub17 thank you for all the input!