Please chance me for Udub-Seattle!

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Hi guys, I am entering my senior year and I am excited to be a huskie! I am a washington resident. I am looking to get direct admission for the Electrical engineering/mechanical engineering program.

Rank: 13/227 Rank 1/227 if freshmen year didn’t count. STEM-Based school, however it is only competitive among top 20 students.

Disadvantage: I am a chinese male.

GPA: UC GPA:4.17 Regular: 3.875 unweighted 4.1 weighted (really GOOD upward bound, 3.6-3.7 freshmen year then 4.0 soph and junior yr)

Courses:Not many ap classes offered at my school, but I am definite that I have an extremely rigorous course load compared to my peers. AP Comp Sci(4), Ap Calc AB(5) and AP enviro sci(4). Dual enrollment senior year: english 101, calculus based physics 1-2, calc 3 and linear algebra. Basically 90% of the pre reqs for engineering at Univ of Washington.

SAT:1690 (1st) (640 m 510 w 530 cr) 1980(2nd) (800 m 620 w 560 cr) Retaking it october hoping for 2000+

ACT: Not taking

Planning to take SAT II’s (Math 2, physics and chinese(native speaker))in June

ECs:
President of compost team
National Honor Society
National Math Honor Society
200+ hours of community service
Worked a job for 2+ year to support my family(I heard this was huge from my counselor)
I have been working since the moment I turned 16.
Computer science club
University of Washington Mathematics Academy(competitive summer program for aspiring engineering students)
University of Washington math and science upward bound
Key club
Jv and Varsity tennis
Varsity golf
Robotics team
University of Washington Math euler’s award
Start up weekend 2nd place (HackTheCD)
Internship at a local software company for 2 week
Family:30k income
For my essays I can talk about how my dad was reported with cancer during my 8th grade year which affected my whole life and particularly my transition into high school. With the addition of my childhood as a underprivileged kid with big aspirations and responsibilties such ad fiancially supporting my family an such.
Hook:first generation college student

Thanks everyone!

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Provided your statement was good, I would say you are a lock and here is why:

  1. Diversity candidate.
  2. First Gen.
  3. Good Unweighted GPA

You did not mention if English is a second language for you. There is specific literature about what the UW expects in the event that you are a non-native English speaker.

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Diversity? :open_mouth: Last time I visited UW, I realized that the student body is almost 70% Asian. Thank you for the chance! English is a second language for me, however I went to an American High School thus I don’t feel like I would need to be considered ESL.

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You are basically a lock first and foremost because of your unweighted GPA. That is what UW values most in admissions (at least that’s what I’ve observed over the years).
Your SAT score is above average too, and along with a decent complement of ECs, you should be fine.

I’m not sure about your DFA chances, but definitely think you’ll get into UW easily.

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@cheeseusrice Your visit is very unlikely to have spanned the entire student body. If you are a US Citizen you do not need to provide proof of English proficiency above and beyond normal work.

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tbh as long as you don’t screw up your essay you will be perfectly fine. The essay can still kill you even if you do really good not going to lie.

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Thanks for the chances everyone! Quick question, is the essay that thorough to your life that it can outshine 4 years of work/accomplishments?

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@Cheesusrice ,

The student body is not 70% asian. Not sure where you heard that from. It’s more than half caucasian. It’s around 20% asian american and 10% international.

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@Cheesusrice The essay is weighted heavily. There are students that have over 15 years of work experience, and a few more years of Academic experience that also must submit an essay.

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I would posit that the student body is ~37-40% Asian. It is 27.6% Asian and 14.7% international (a large chunk of them are Asian).

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Hey everyone, I recently got back my scores from the May SAT. It comes down to be a 2060. (640 CR, 800M, 620W). Do I have a chance at direct admissions for Electrical Engineering at Univ of Washington?