University of Washington/UCLA/UC-Berkeley

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi guys, I am entering my senior year and I wonder where I stand for these Universities. I am a washington resident. I plan to apply to Univ of washington - seattle, UC Berkeley and UCLA

Rank: 13/227 Rank 1/227 if freshmen year didn’t count.

Disadvantage: I am a chinese male. :frowning:

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
For University of Washington, I am mainly aiming for a direct admit into their electrical engineering program.
I am well aware of the cost of going out of state, please do not worry.
Thanks everyone!

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Assuming you have a strong senior year as well, you will get in to UW, no problem. Direct entry to Electrical Engineering will be tough. I would reach out to the program directly to learn more about admission statistics and how to stand out in the process. The out of state UC schools will be tough and, obviously, you know they will give close to ZERO financial aid. If you get in to UW it would be crazy to choose an out of state public school like the UCs and put yourself in huge debt.

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@Advising123 Thanks! Yeah, unless I get into Berkeley with gates scholarship then I will be most likely attending UW. A couple of my senior friends(We are a STEM school) got direct admitted to the electrical engineering program with around 1800-1900 SAT and perfect UW GPA. They told me that a big hook would be by taking the initiative on pre req’s senior year by doing running start which can compensate for our sub-par SAT scores.

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Did you end up getting into EE at UW?