<p>what everyone else said.</p>
<p>Your grades/tests aren’t stellar…but far and beyond that is that uw looks at people holistically and try to get a feel for who you are as a person, not just the number. And essays are super important, not well written but the story. </p>
<p>I’m pretty sure the african americans you referenced deserve to get in, and not based on what you implied. There are several factors that the UW looks at when factoring who to choose…not one or two gpa or race etc</p>
<p>at the end of the day it’s about “what do you bring to the table?”</p>
<p>you’re lucky your parents want you to go to ucla, I also got accepted to UCLA, but my parents said I could only go there if I get rejected to UW, which didn’t happen. 
We should switch parents 
I’ll even let you have my acceptance to UW haha.</p>
<p>It’s super-disappointing, but the fact that you got into UCLA at least should reassure you that it wasn’t some huge awful reason that you didn’t get into the UW. It looks like your main selling point is in the area of business/leadership – maybe they just had a LOT of kids who had that same main selling point and UCLA didn’t. Or maybe UCLA is hurting for lacrosse players or something. Also, I’m sure the UW is being very strict about only letting in a certain number of in-state students – they need the out-of-staters who bring them more money (because of Washington state budget cuts). Bring your good “business brain” to the situation and think more about it terms of how they needed a wide variety of different “products” – if you have the budget to buy 1 coat and 1 pair of shoes, and you need both, you’d be silly to buy 2 pairs of shoes, even if the second pair of shoes is most excellent and more attractive than the coat. You just had the misfortune to be the second pair of shoes. But you’re UCLA’s first pair, so yay!</p>
<p>I’m awfully sorry you didn’t get into the UW, though. UCLA sounds exciting but $$$.</p>
<p>It was nice of you to apologize for the racial comment. That was pretty low.</p>
<p>Anyway, as others have said, be proud that you got into UCLA. That’s one of the best schools in the nation. Is it a bit expensive if you’re OOS? Definitely. But it’ll be worth every penny, I guarantee it =)</p>
<p>If UCLA or any other out-of-state school is too expensive then you may consider spending two years at your local community college and then transferring into UW. This will save you a great deal of money.</p>
<p>My understanding is that the UW has capped its in-state enrollment and is increasing its places for out-of-state students. Because of…$. You should realize that the University’s financial situation is very desperate, and out-of-state students bring more money to the table.</p>
<p>Some big state universities are under political pressure to avoid this game, but the situation in Washington state is so bad, they don’t care any more.</p>
<p>I’m surprised no one has mentioned this situation yet. </p>
<p>Bottom line: their loss, not yours.</p>
<p>UCLA is the better school in my opinion, though I totally understand how you feel. I know a lot of the posters don’t agree, but I think that AA is a legitimate issue and will give groups that are considered educational minorities an advantage. The problem, as i see it, with AA is that although it’s meant for disadvantaged minorities, it’s usually the middle or upper class of those same minorities that benefit most from it. I know one guy in my school district who is a nationally competative pianist, valedictorian, on the US national youth chess team, and a recipient of various other honors was rejected from Stanford while a female, African American applicant with lower stats and weaker EC’s and other activities from the same school was accepted. But that’s life, so all you can really do is get over it.</p>
<p>Refraining from AA debate…<em>checks out of thread</em></p>
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<p>Wow, I’m shocked that you got into UCLA with those stats, congrats. Don’t sweat not getting into UW, if I had a choice I would go to UCLA over UW in a heartbeat, all things (including money) considered.</p>
<p>you should definitely appeal (and possibly use your UCLA acceptance in your letter but I’m not sure how things work). I consider UCLA to be about equal to UW but it isn’t really worth the money. I would honestly consider your stats just borderline for UW, but your EC’s should have made up for them.</p>
<p>and also, just throwing it out there, AA is a form of reverse-discrimination. it also doesn’t do anything for the minorities it intends to help. ~41% of the black people at ivies are actually internationals from Africa and other places. There are too many logical fallacies of AA to count. It’s also a political tool and thus has no hope of being repealed.</p>
<p>What the hell? 41%? I never knew that…</p>
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<p>Do you have a link to this?</p>
<p>That’s true ^^
and, the group that benefits most from AA is white women. I say this all the time, but everyone ignores it (I wonder why.)</p>
<p>Listen, you can’t get accepted to EVERY school. Even if a school is ranked “lower” than the one you were accepted to. Stop complaining. You got IN somewhere. Many people don’t. UCLA chose you for a reason. Be grateful.</p>
<p>Not everyone is “fit” for a certain school. Keep that in mind.</p>
<p>I’m very sorry about your disappointment - the admissions process is such a mind game and it’s always difficult not to take it personally. UCLA sounds like a wonderful place too.</p>
<p>Out of curiousity, my D was denied out-of-state. Her letter said that of over 24,000 applications there were 5650 spaces. Did you receive the same statistics as an in-state student or are those out-of-state stats?</p>
<p>ahh, I was just looking at some stats, I think that the acceptance rate is higher, but the number “5650” is the “yield”.</p>
<p>Well that fact is a little misleading. True, there were roughly 24,000 applications and true, there are only about 6,000 spaces. BUT every college admits more than they have space for because obviously not every person they admit will choose to attend. Since the acceptance rate is around 55% I would assume around 13,000 got accepted.</p>
<p>Edit: my b, alisonrick said it before I did.</p>
<p>Re: the UCLA admission, I’ll bet UCLA is also looking for more out-of-state admits.</p>
<p>OP, I went to a nearly all-white high school way back in the day. Race wasn’t an issue–we just couldn’t believe who got accepted and who didn’t at UW and even Evergreen. If their GPAs are substantially lower, it may be part of the UW’s social goals… if not substantially, it might be a question of other talents they had.</p>
<p>You didn’t apply to any other state schools in Washington from which to transfer?</p>
<p>This has been on the upswing for a couple years now. 2 years ago a friend’s son was rejected at UW but accepted by some much higher ranked schools - he attends Carnegie Mellon computer science major- no small feat. This year UW actually admitted what was happening and at my son’s hs, counselors are telling waitlisted kids to make other plans…that’s never happened before.</p>