Okay, I just actually read what you said, and if you know the answer to your question, why ask?
I had to check, because I was worried I was imagining things. You did say you got in, it was in the cal poly thread:
“however, UW was my first choice and I got in.”
Idk where you said the other stuff, but it wasn’t there.
You can look at the common data set and see that your stats are, in fact, average.
Your GPA is slightly below average, and your ACT is above (though still at the edge of the mid-50). But, UW doesn’t care as much about testing. They state this many times on their website, I suspect they could pull their mid 50 up further if they wanted to.
On the GPA- they will care about the upward trend.
However, they care far more about school culture. They value diversity, and experiences. You can put international schools you attended all the way back to first grade. They ask you questions about genuine experiences with diversity.
Mission trips aren’t that great in the eyes of colleges. You have a limit to the # of ecs you can put because they want commitment; deep connection to what you did. If you expressed that, you had a shot.
Also, rigor isn’t something you can be ‘above average’ at in context of the overall applicant pool. What is offered varies by school, and what a student finds challenging, or has the time in light of familial commitments, does as well. Rigor is evaluated on a person to person basis: in context of a school. It isn’t the end all be all. It is ‘did you challenge yourself enough that you had to work, but still learned and enjoyed it’. I’m
The surgeries and move aren’t a hook unless there’s something unusual about them, they could help if you wrote good essays.
Though I rarely say this: saying your grades were bad because you were adjusting after a move is likely to come off as whining, and suggest that you may be bad with change. Unless there’s some sort of triumph, and you’ll never have that problem again, it’s hard to spin.
The conclusion here is that many students who have scores above the 75th percentile are turned away, because UW carefully builds a class, and you have been given the ability to skip that step. UW, unlike schools UW Madison, cal poly, and many in Canada, is extreemly holistic. It isn’t about stats. You’ll get in because you know someone, so the answer ‘you probably have the stats, but no one really knows’ doesn’t even apply to you.
I know kids who have been wearing huskies stuff since they were infants: that doesn’t justify compromised ethics. I’m not saying you shouldn’t take the opportunity, but you certainly shouldn’t come on here and post about how you’ve skipped the line. That’s just kind of jerk-ish.
Literally, I don’t understand why you want to theorize about your chances ‘if’ you didn’t have the connection that you have, even through all anyone can say is that your stats are average, above, or below, AND you already know that anyways even in this theoretic situation.
And you also seem to not understand how the clearly published in and oos acceptances work. I’m questioning the morality of your dads friend. I know people give nods to help get kids into programs junior year, but to just let them in to begin with freshman year seems worse.
