UW-SEATTLE - Computer Science/Engineering - Help

<p>Im currently in my last quarter of community college.
I plan to transfer to the UW-Seattle by Sept 2014 if I get in.</p>

<p>My cum gpa is 2.95.
I am a transfer student planning to go into UW-Seattle computer engineering, or computer science program.</p>

<p>I have no job experience.
I have no extra curric.
I have nothing outside of school.
All i have is my transfer from community college and the 2.95 cumm gpa.</p>

<p>Only thing I have done is create 1 moderately successful website that has helped over 100k people do stuff online so far, current rate is helping 30k people per month do stuff from my website. I was thinking of talking about that. Would that maybe make up for the other stuff im lacking?
I am thinking I would include that in my stuff because it would be something different. </p>

<p>I have attended transfer thur, spoke with counselor, all those things I have gotten the full help that i could from.</p>

<p>Has anyone gotten into the UW-Seattle computer science or engineering program and got low GPA?
I would appreciate tips and suggestion. I really want to get in, but at the same time I don't want to get too excited and get my hopes up. I don't really know what else to do.</p>

<p>Thank you for your time.
- your neighbor</p>

<p>You can use this database portal to see the historical stats for those admitted to various engineering majors: <a href=“http://data.engr.washington.edu/pls/portal30/STUDENT_APPL.RPT_APPLICANT_STATISTICS_YEAR.show[/url]”>http://data.engr.washington.edu/pls/portal30/STUDENT_APPL.RPT_APPLICANT_STATISTICS_YEAR.show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The major-specific academic planning worksheet also shows admin stats for last year: <a href=“http://admit.washington.edu/apw/CMPEAPW-2013.pdf[/url]”>http://admit.washington.edu/apw/CMPEAPW-2013.pdf&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Note that the prereq GPA maters more than the cummulative GPA for admission to competitive STEM majors.</p>

<p>The average transfer prereq GPA of those admitted to CompE was 3.76, but as you can see from the stats sub-3.0-GPA applicants are occasionally admitted to CompE, so factors other than GPA are obviously considered. </p>

<p>The average transfer prereq GPA for CS was 3.85 and the minimum last year was 3.5, so I wouldn’t get my hopes up for that major…</p>

<p>Sorry to hijack, but I was wondering - if I’m an international transfer applying for general admission first to finish CSE142/143 before applying for CompE (i’ve finished the other pre-req), will the department take into account that my other credits are from a less recognized international college, and possibly deny me admission no matter how high my gpa there was?</p>

<p>thanks triserdad the link is helpful!</p>

<p>KB2014 tell me how things go cause I am doing the same thing!</p>

<p>Will do keep the post saved. If I happen to get in and remember this post I will post update for you.</p>

<p>The Computer Science department at UW-Seattle is very strong and rigorous. For undergraduate students at UW, they require a 3.5 cumulated GPA or higher to even apply for an accelerated admission. </p>

<p>For transferring, the department may ask you to retake CSE142/143 depending on your situation, but is mostly unlikely. </p>

<p>The average GPA for UW CSE students is around 3.9</p>

<p>If you have a lacking GPA, I would say that it would be difficult to get into the department unless your website seemed to be extremely interesting for the administration.</p>

<p>Yeah, unfortunately your chances of getting into UW Seattle at all, let alone the Comp Sci major, are pretty low. </p>

<p>UW Bothell has some Comp Sci programs as well. Have you considered going there?</p>

<p>@meerskateer
Hi, and yes. I looked at the stats, chances don’t look that great for me. I will try applying anyways. I did okay in CSE classes, But I did pretty horrible in physics and calc but I passed, that and 1 class that I took that I did not need pretty much dropped my gpa down so low to what it is now.</p>

<p>My site has helped a lot of people and I guess maybe I can try to find a creative way to show that to them? Maybe that would make me stick out a bit?</p>

<p>But thanks for your suggestion.</p>

<p>@Candela2</p>

<p>Hi, and yeah it is sort of disheartening but life goes on, I have considered Bothell.
Thanks for your suggestion though.</p>