California student
White male
SAT: 1740 (Writing: 530, Reading: 620, Math: 590)
ACT: 24 Composite
GPA: 9-12 Unweighted: 3.86, 9-12 Weighted: 4.18
Class Rigor: AP European History (Sophomore), Honors Chemistry (Sophomore), Ap English (Junior), Honors Physics (Junior), Spanish 3 Honors (Junior), AP Literature (Senior), AP Psychology (Senior)
3 years of foreign language, 4 years of math, 3 years of lab science
Achievements: ASB officer all 4 years, President of my community blood bank school blood drives during my Junior and Senior year, President of CHiPs for Kids toy drive also during my Junior and Senior year (Worked directly with the California Highway Patrol to advertise and encourage my peers and community members to donate new toys to less fortunate children during the holidays), worked as a server for my town’s local ice cream parlor since the beginning of my Junior year, and was elected Homecoming King during my Senior year by my peers.
Major: Business Administration
Personal Statement A (Event that defines character): Wrote about my passion for my school and my leadership position on ASB the past 3 years and how I wanted to make a difference within my school and community and how I led myself to believe that the only way I could make a difference at my school was by becoming ASB President. I wanted to win my election more than anything and it meant the world to me at the time, but unfortunately I lost. I then wrote about how I realized I did not need that position to leave my footprint on my school and that leadership was all about accepting loss without letting it define you nor defeat you, rather by allowing loss to humble you. I came to grips with the fact that the title of ASB President was just that, a title.
Short Response (Cultural difference): Wrote about how my community blandly consists of mostly caucasion and hispanic ethnical backgrounds and how I am passionate to expand my knowledge of the world and how I want to branch out and experience other cultural normalities and how I am prepared to approach these different cultural ideals with an open heart and an open mind.
University of Washington Seattle is my absolute number one school and I will be devastated if I do not get accepted, I know my SAT and ACT cores are on the lower end of the acceptance spectrum but I am hoping admissions will look well beyond that and see my dedication to leadership at my school and in my community as well as my dedication to wanting to academically challenge myself. If a rejection does come to pass, my next step is going to be through the appeals process. If any of you are anything like me, you are waiting anxiously for that purple and gold letter to arrive in the mail mid-March. Can anyone with UW freshman admission experience or insight give me their opinion on my chances? Good luck to all who also applied!