Chance for UW Honors?

speedsolver
Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:53:40 +0000

Definitely strong applicants!

UW Honors looks more than just test grades and GPA though, many 2000+ and 4.0 students have been rejected or waitlisted. Concentrate on your essays. Your teacher recommendation should answer this question: “Why is this student a perfect fit for UW Honors?” <this meaning, don’t have some teacher who barely knows you write a general recommendation. Tell him/her to answer this question.

I also noticed that the Honors program concentrates on interdisciplinary ideas … that is, combining two fields of study and focusing on that (ie. computer science/medicine, english/technology) so you might want to take that into consideration while writing essays.