<p>Oh well.
):</p>
<p>Attention campers, a 3.2 UW GPA, a 1930 SAT, a great mix of EC's, diversity, a rigorous AP/honors course load, and a good essay will NOT get you into UW.</p>
<p>It was just barely a target school for me- borderline reach, because of my dismal GPA.</p>
<p>But regardless, I'm posting this as a warning for anyone with similar stats, because I'm a meanie/realist like that.</p>
<p>Now, let the pity party commence!</p>
<p>Kidding. :)</p>
<p>You can be a cougar.</p>
<p>Oh! Also, I’d juuuust checked myUW two days before I received my letter, and it still said the “we have received all the materials necessary to review your application blah blah blah” thing, and no unofficial transcript had been loaded sooo…it’s likely that if your status has changed to “we HAVE reviewed your application and will notify you by postal mail when a decision has been made” and your unofficial transcript has loaded, you are in! Congrats!</p>
<p>Also, to all future applicants, um, you probably shouldn’t write your honors essay about how stoked you are on socialism. Just a tip. :P</p>
<p>Haha I could be a cougar…
but I’m more the gooey duck kind of girl.
(That’s the Evergreen mascot, fyi)
:D</p>
<p>Aww, <em>internet hug</em> I do have a question though. Are you IS or OOS?</p>
<p>yeah i want to know the answerto what Bubbleteachibi asked too…</p>
<p>cause i have almost identical stats to holdencaulfield1 haha…</p>
<p>My stats are very similar to yours, which makes me weary (I haven’t heard back yet). Oh well! Sorry about your rejection,.</p>
<p>I have little better GPA and little worse Sat than you. It makes me nervous</p>
<p>What was your major?</p>
<p>How many AP and Honors classes did you take? I’m probably going to have similar stats to yours. I guess there’s no way I’m getting in. I’ll try to transfer in then. :(</p>
<p>I’m instate, go to a private college prep school, have taken 5 AP classes and have chosen honors whenever it was available with the exception of math. Ummm I’m also multiracial and had pretty good EC’s… even my college counsellor was surprised! She said I should contest it but I don’t want to wait all the way until the end of May to hear. </p>
<p>But there’s also the whole honors essay about socialism thing, and while both my English teacher and counsellors loved my essay, I think it was a little too “creative”- I wrote about collectivism, the Sasquatch music festival, a laser show, and Beatles’ lyrics, specifically from Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. I want to be a writer and I guess I get a little tangled up in my idealistic, pseudohippie self sometimes!</p>
<p>Oh, and my major was Psych. :)</p>
<p>And thanks for the internet hug, aww! <em>internet hug back!</em></p>
<p>HoldenCaulfield, sorry to hear that. Hope your other choices have worked out for you.</p>
<p>Btw, is there a way to appeal a decision from UW? I thought the only way to do that was for a school counselor to work their contacts and informally ask them to reconsider. Is that what your counselor had in mind?</p>
<p>Nope, I just typed in “uw appeal” on google and one of the first hits took me to a page on the website. it involves a like, 3 page long, formally faxed letter, recommendations, updated grades, and a whole lot of other stuff.</p>
<p>I really think you should appeal the decision, perhaps as soon as possible, just to try. =) Would you try to transfer after a year?</p>
<p>I don’t think the honors essay would play a part in your UW admission, to honors maybe but not to regular. There could be something else in your application that tilted it towards a no - could be your GPA. Your GPA is really low but if your counselors think that you should be accepted then they can start doing the paperwork. You are right that you might hear back in May though but I think UW is worth the wait. I do know a friend of mine who got rejected with a 3.3 UW + 1900 SAT last year and went to a good private college prep school. UW compared him with the other kids coming from the same school and decided that his stats were mediocre compare to his peers.</p>
<p>i’m shocked, those stats + instate should have gotten you in.</p>
<p>@carusok the comparison with close peers does make sense. but im going to be a senior next year and i am verrrrrrry nervous now. i have a 3.2 GPA also. but im shooting for 2100+ on SAT in attempt to fill that hole</p>
<p>ilikeuw- if uw is your first choice, really work toward scoring a 2100+. according to my school’s statistics going all the way back to 06’, nobody who’s gotten more than a 2000 SAT has been rejected.</p>
<p>And I might appeal it, I kind of want to wait two weeks and see if I hear back from my number one, UBC, if not then I’ll definitely appeal. It just seems like such an arduous process!! I did, however, get a much better GPA this time around… 3.67! Still honors and AP as well. That’s alllmost straight A’s; an A- in Religion and a C in Pre-Calc killed that 4.0 dream though.</p>
<p>While I can see the whole comparison thing, that doesn’t make much sense with course rigor and SAT scores factored in, because although about 30 kids from my class of 250 have gotten in already, I only know of two who have better SAT scores than I do, and one who has exactly the same. Also, few of those people take majority honors and AP classes. I have a feeling that inconsistency was a major part in my rejection, because I’d had a 3.47 until second semester junior year when my GPA fell kinda sorta a lot below 3.0, and although there is a good explanation, it’s one that I reeeeally couldn’t tell the school so I just had to deal. I’ve also got a horrendous discipline record, so that could’ve played a role as WELL as the GPA thing, the inconsistency thing, and I say the honors thing as well because I feel like they looked at it, as I got an e-mail that said they didn’t have my recommendation letters when they really did.</p>
<p>All I know is that this whole UW rejection thing wasn’t the end of the world for me but was definitely a shocker, and it’s totally tripped me out about this whole college thing! I wasn’t nervous or anxious at all before, and now here I am, working on an Evergreen app because I neeeed to know forsure that I can go someplace and have choices. Ahhh!</p>
<p>one of my friends got in with a 3.2 the other day. so it does happen.</p>
<p>@wootuw, did your friend have a really high SAT/ACT score or something?</p>
<p>“It’s not about the number’s” is BS. My friend had great extracurriculars, including being president of the whole student body, but unfortunately he had a fairly average 3.2 and a 14xx SAT. He got rejected. I am the total opposite of him, with the GPA being the exception to the difference. No outstanding curriculars, but I happen to be a good test taker and got a relatively above average SAT score. Meh, Could have been the essay because compared to the other suburban white-picket fence housed kids at my school, my essay showed the most cultural and historical awareness, resulting from the experiences from the war ravaged Vietnam my parents have been through. My gpa is 3.54 UW (probably 3.4 now).</p>