<p>I am mostly interested in going to school in Seattle and would like to know my chances at the University of Washington and Seattle University. (don't worry, I have many other safeties and matches I am less thrilled about)</p>
<p>GPA: 3.3 UW
SAT: (550M/700W/690CR) Old school - 1240, new - 1940
plan on taking again in October and raising, hopefully breaking 2000.
Extracurricular's: Weak to the max. Swimming, orchestra, knowledge bowl. That's it! Mostly I just read, does that count as an extracurricular? It damn well should, but I have a feeling it doesn't. </p>
<p>I will probably try to explain my low GPA in one of my essays. It will basically describe the desintegration of my family through alcoholism, intellectual apathy and unemployment, and how that affected me negatively and made me a pessimist who didn't care about school (or life really) my freshmen and sophomore years. Then how I suddenly and bounced back my junior year. (I have the grade trend to back this up, obviously).</p>
<p>My senior year I am in the running start program, which basically means I attend community college full time and receive dual credit. By the time I graduate from high school I should have over 50 college credits through running start and AP's. Not to mention a 3.7-4.0 college GPA.</p>
<p>So, what do you think? I know the University of Washington has some very nutty admission decisions, but some hint on how I will do will be nice. I have a feeling that if I can muster up some amazing essays Seattle University will let me in, but I don't know if I can afford it.</p>
<p>Any help would be appreciated, and for those of you on here solely interested in ivies, I hope that my pathetic stats will do much to make you feel better about yourselves.</p>
<p>You didn't mention if you're from Washington or not. If you're instate then I would say you're a bit better than 73-27. If there is a good reason for the GPA then you would stand a better chance. The running start and especially the GPA in those classes help a ton. What I think is if you're instate you'll get in and if you're out of state you'll likely end up at one of you're safeties. I don't know much about Seattle University though.</p>
<p>I've lived in Washington for a year so far, and plan on living here at least another year. I'm pretty sure that qualifies me as instate. I probably should have mentioned that.</p>
<p>Maybe I'm just an idiot but I don't understand what "73-27" means, can you elaborate?</p>
<p>I really don't have a great reason for the low GPA, other than previously mentioned family problems. I'm just hoping the rising grade trend will do something to unbalance the general crapyness of it.</p>
<p>There is also something else I didn't mention and probably should have. This senior year I am doing Running Start, but I am basically taking straight humanities. I don't plan on taking a real math class (it has never been my forte) and as far as science goes I will only be taking a beggining antrhopology class. Will that effect me negatively? It probably shouldn't, because I plan on majoring in Comparative Literature if I do get into the University of Washington, but on the other hand it probably looks lazy to just be taking literature and history for a full year. Any thoughts?</p>