Please chance me for UW Seattle?

<p>Female, Asian, lives in Seattle area of Washington, upper-middle class, high school is average and uncompetitive</p>

<p>GPA: 3.88 UW by application time (likely weakest point). </p>

<p>No weighted GPA calculated, but estimated weighted is around 4.3-4.4 (possibly lowered due to Orchestra and inability to take AP/honors classes before junior year)</p>

<p>SAT: 2280 first try
ACT: got 34 on practice test, have not yet taken
SAT II: Math 2 800, Physics 780, US History 800 (Would taking others help at all?)
Class rank: Top 10% (UW GPA), no definite class rank system</p>

<p>Senior Schedule (Most rigorous schedule in school):
Orchestra (0 period)
AP US Government
AP Calculus AB
AP Chemistry
AP Biology
AP Physics B (Online)
AP Computer Science A
AP English Literature</p>

<p>Junior Schedule:
Orchestra (0 period)
Pre-Calculus
AP Macroeconomics/AP Microeconomics (expecting 4-5, 4-5)
Chemistry
AP US History (expecting 4-5)
AP English Language (expecting 4-5)
French 5-6</p>

<p>Self-studied: AP Psychology (out of interest) (5), AP Comparative Gov. (annoying prerequisite) (5), AP Human Geography (5), AP Statistics (5)</p>

<p>Note: AP scores are projected based on how well I'm doing in the various classes and on practice tests</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
• 400+ miscellaneous volunteer hours with Key Club and NHS
• Summer research internship @ Seattle Biomedical Institute
• UW Material Sciences Camp (summer program)
• Washington Aerospace Scholars at Boeing Museum of Flight (summer program)
• Volunteer at UW Medical Center and Seattle Children's Hospital (approx. 100~120 hours)
• Volunteer at Habitat for Humanity – Seattle (approx. 50~60 hours)
• Varsity Swim (4 years), Swim Captain
• Varsity Tennis (2 years)
• Orchestra, violin player (10 years)
• Piano (self studied, 5-6 years), more or less a hobby.
• National Honors Society (3 years), Secretary
• Key Club, (3 years) Service Projects Committee Chair
Service Projects:
o UNICEF Eliminate Project (Key Club district project, to eliminate neonatal tetanus)
o Kiwanis Children's Cancer Program (Key Club district project)
o project: EDUCATE (Key Club district project, fundraising for building schools in Jamaica)
o Crestline Elementary School Book Drive (National Honors Society project) Collected and donated 326 out of a total of 564 books
o Co-chair of committee for a "special needs dance", allowing students with special needs to participate in a dance like Homecoming (National Honors Society)
Etc:
• Tutoring elementary school kids in violin and piano as part of volunteer program (5 years)</p>

<p>Awards:
• National AP Scholar
• Academic Achievement award for all years (school award for top 20%)
• WIAA Academic State Champion (Orchestra)
• Rotary Youth of the Month
• Member of the Month (Key Club & NHS)
• State & District level awards for swim, numerous Varsity Letters and Scholar Athlete awards
• National History Day – Regionals 1st Place (this was in middle school, so not sure if it counts)
• 1st State Alternate for Soundview Solo & Ensemble, several Superior ratings for Solo & Ensemble</p>

<p>Write good essays and you’re fine. Are you trying for any direct admit admissions?</p>

<p>You are a solid applicant for UW!</p>

<p>To your Q on SAT II’s: UW does not consider these, so taking more will have no impact on your UW app.</p>

<p>ur a shoe in</p>

<p>It’s difficult to imagine you not getting accepted, but I am only familiar with transfer admissions and not freshman.</p>

<p>The major concern I see is potentially trying to include all of your activities in your personal statement. It would be difficult to do this coherently, within the space allotted, and put them all in their proper context. I would choose to highlight some of them rather than include all of them. The transfer application, at least, did not include space for this. I could be misremembering - it’s been months since I filled it out and I only had a couple of activities.</p>

<p>you’re in, unless you don’t talk about yourself well enough in the writing portion. I read the In-State acceptance rate for 2013 was 61%.</p>

<p>A definite in, I am a freshman with a worse stat. but I got admitted smoothly at an early stage. My SAT is 1850. But i guess my ECA and essays were great.</p>