Waitlisted at UW - what are my chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Washington
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<p>I got waitlisted to the University of Washington about a week ago. My girlfriend was accepted and we're either going together or not going at all. We need to know if she should bother putting down the deposit or not based on my chances of getting accepted.</p>

<p>Here are my stats:
GPA (Unweighted): 3.59, but soon to send solid senior year grades (3.77).
GPA (Weighted): 3.85 or 3.9
SAT: 2050
Both parents are alums
In-state, Asian
Solid essay, and good EC's.</p>

<p>Please, do I have a shot... any advice?</p>

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<p>if your in-state you have a good chance</p>

<p>i don’t understand why you would get waitlisted especially when people with much lower stats than you have been accepted. your essay might suck</p>

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<p>do you know if they rank people on the waitlist or not?</p>

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<p>You might as well appeal soon if you both are willing to give up that easily</p>

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<p>The essay is definitely not the problem- I had 3 teachers read it and they all said it was the best they had seen that year.</p>

<p>And no, we’re not “willing to give up that easily”- my girlfriend is in an extremely tight financial situation and losing the $272 deposit plus $500 housing deposit is a really big deal to her family.</p>

<p>It’s a really difficult decision and I feel confident that there were no holes or weaknesses in my application.</p>

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<p>there’s no ranking on the waitlist…</p>

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<p>I think your girlfriend should go ahead and pay the deposit. Why? Think about this, what if she doesn’t and then loses her spot but you get in? </p>

<p>And aside from that I had a friend who last year had lower stats (actually 2 friends) and both were admitted.</p>

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<p>If you really feel confident that you did well then she should just pay it. Otherwise she should just decide whether or not she is willing to go with out you, if it happens to end up that way.</p>

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<p>Last year, many on the waitlisting were offered admission.
Good luck!</p>

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<p>You look pretty solid. There is no ranking on waitlists, so you may as well give it a try. But in all honesty, your girlfriend shouldn’t be basing her attendance to UDub on whether or not you are accepted. If you were a good boyfriend you would be pushing her to seize the opportunity of attending a great college, not hindering her future because you were waitlisted. Sorry if that offends you, but I’ve just seen so many people base their college decisions off of a relationship. Sometimes it works out, other times it doesn’t. The point is that college should be YOUR decision - not someone else’s. Good luck with your endeavors.</p>

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<p>^
harsh but true</p>

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<p>heyjudeimsam-</p>

<p>I hear what you’re saying, but believe me, if I actually wanted to, there would be nothing I could say to her that would make her go off to a college without me. She got accepted to altogether 6 universities and could care less about the ones that I didn’t apply to. It is an awful situation, and I do feel bad about it. </p>

<p>I understand your point, but sometimes things like this aren’t really a choice-- at this moment in our lives, the prestige of a school is meaningless in comparison to our relationship… I know that someday it’s very possible I could regret that-- but for the time being, it is impossible for either of us to go against it.</p>

<p>Thanks for the input though. </p>

<p>And fyi- I just received 2nd quarter grades and my GPA is actually higher than a 3.8 for senior year (including an A in chemistry)- so things are looking hopeful.</p>

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<p>soo if the wait list is not “ranked” then how do they pull from the pool of applicants? i know there was that senior year progress paper… what else do they look at? </p>

<p>I am wait listed, OOS and i am really hoping for UW. My problem is that I took 3 AP classes this year out of 5 classes so my GPA took a plummet first semester. I got all B’s which i guess comes out to be a 3.6 weighted GPA. Is this bad news for my wait listed hopes?</p>

<p>SAT I: 1750<br>
SAT II: 650 (Math 2) 600 (Chemistry) 590 (Bio-E)
4 years XC and Track
Great essays
Leadership + 3 years of working experience</p>

<p>Ohh, and since this thread seems to be dead… so I called the admissions office and asked them some questions about the wait list. They said that about 2,000 applicants were wait listed this year… which to me seems like around the same number as last year (1353) (i figure the other 647 didn’t ask to be placed on the wait list). Does anyone know why the stats from 2009 (1079/1353) were so much more promising than the stats from 2008 (25/832)? Economy? Anything?</p>

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<p>Hard to say how a state school does in a bad economy–do more people go to it instead of the private LAC? or do more people decide to go to Community College and get a lower cost AA before they go to UW? of just can’t afford to go at all?</p>

<p>From my experience, classmates seem to be applying to more and more schools, many 10-12 schools. I think that with this trend, schools will be needing to dip deeply into their wait lists (or hoping), but who knows?</p>

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<p>Coulomb, </p>

<p>no matter how high your SATIIs may be, UW disregards those and recs, if you had any.</p>

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<p>eek well thats not good considering my SAT I wasn’t high at all… ahh man this is killing me.</p>

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<p>Both parents are alums? Are you in-state? This proves that their admissions is kinda random</p>

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<p>uw doesn’t consider legacy though. i talked to an admissions guys and he said they have far to many alumni to consider it a factor</p>

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<p>Well if it helps, my friend says that state school waitlists are pretty easy to get off of compared to privates :)</p>

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<p>Thanks, there’s a lot of useful information on here.</p>