Hi Everyone, just wanted to come on and share my final college results now that I have heard back from everywhere.
Stats:
3.94/4.0 UW GPA
4.4 self-calculated weighted GPA (not sent to colleges)
4/19 UW Class Rank (would be 1/19 if weighted calculated)
33 ACT (school average is 16)
First Generation
From Washington State
Business major
Extracurriculars:
-Scouting: Eagle Scout, earned all 139 merit badges, lots of leadership
-Violin: Have played violin since age 3, performed as soloist in several concerts
-Intern: Intern for a local business education non-profit for 2 summers.
-Golf: 3 year member of my school golf team, varsity letter, most improved award, captain
-Service at my school: Led a $10,000 project to redesign the courtyard of my school. 40+ volunteers collective 600 service hours
-High School Leadership Team: Helped lead several events and stuff at my school.
-Volunteer at local foodbank+homeless shelter for about 2 hours each week since Freshmen year
-NHS: Member and several important leadership roles
-SAT/ACT improvement comitttee: Helped leaders at my school, over 8 months, to develop a plan to raise test scores to meet the bechmarks. Went for 20% meeting bechmarks to 85% this year.
-Scuba Diving: Member of the local scuba diving club in my area and dive 7-10 times each summer.
7/10 Essays
Results:
-Reach:
Georgia Tech (Waitlist)
Vanderbilt (Deny)
UT Austin (Deny)
UNC Chapel Hill (Accept, but not to business)
UVA (Deny)
-Target
Florida State University (Accept)
U Central Florida (Accept)
UGA (Accept)
U Miami (Accept)
U Florida (Accept + Enrolled)
-Safety (* indicates was accepted through Niche autoapply)
Arizona State University (Accept)
Kansas State (Accept)
University of Arizona (Accept)
Coe College* (Accept)
U North Florida (Accept)
U Kansas (Accept)
Bloomsburg University* (Accept)
Jacksonville University (Accept)
West Texas A&M* (Accept)
Northwest Nazarene University* (Accept)
U South Dakota* (Accept)
Portland State University* (Accept)
Western Washington University (Accept)
U Tennessee (Accept)
Orgeon Tech* (Accept)
U New Hampshire (Accept)
Gonzaga University (Accept)
Willamette University (Accept)
U Oregon (Accept)
Belmont University* (tennessee) (Accept)
Palm Beach Atlantic* (Accept)
Cleveland State University* (Accept)
U Nevada, Reno (Accept)
New Mexico Tech* (Accept)
Norwich University* (Accept)
Whittier College* (Accept)
U of the Pacific* (Accept)
U Puget Sound (Accept)
Northern Arizona University (Accept)
Florida Tech (Accept)
Purude (Accept)
Texas A&M (Accept)
Auburn (Accept)
U Tampa (Accept)
U South Carolina (Accept)
Baylor (Accept)
Texas Christian (Accept)
U Washington (Accept)
U South Florida (Accept)
Ohio State (Accept)
Southern Methodist University (Accept)
Virgnia Tech (Accept)
NC State (Accept)
Clemson (Accept)
Grand Canyon* (Accept)
I will be attending the University of Florida this Fall, and I could not be more excited! Please let me know if you have any questions or anything about my applications or anything like that, and I will be sure to answer them.
Thank you! The main reason was merit chasing. I was hoping I would be able to get tons of merit from the smaller, less selective schools. It did work, but none were enough money to persuade me to go them over my top choices. Another reason is all the autoapplys. Niche has a website where the schools basically apply to you, and I got a lot that way. They are marked with a * in the list above.
Another reason I applied to so many is because the budget for me is variable year to year. My parents are helping me out, but my dad is self employed so our income varies a lot. I applied to a wide variety because I was not sure where the budget would end up. But luckly, I don’t really need to worry anymore because my grandparents gave me the college savings they had saved for my dad (he didn’t go to college), and it’s enough to cover 3 years, so I just need to cover a year which is fine. Super thanful to my grandparents, best suprise of my life.
Yeah, I know. I just was uncomfortable going to a school like UNC where your major is not guarenteed and it is quite selective to get into business.
No merit, but OOS tuition is not that bad in comparison to others. I believe I will recieve a grant from them when need based comes out, but no matter what, I have the finanical stuff pretty much figured out.
Yeah, I went overboard with the applications, but i’m glad it all worked out in the end.
