Please Chance my Test Less application to UW Madison

[BL031976]

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@BL031976. Per UW-Madison common data set for 2019-20, Rigor of secondary record and application essay boxes are checked as very important.

• Assuming that you took 10 honors and 6 AP classes already, are you getting mostly A’s? You are expected to do well in these classes regardless as you are competing against many in-state and especially OOS students. Most of them are getting A’s in them honors and AP classes since Madison is one of the top 50 public institutions.

-extracurricular is marked “considered” under Madison data set point. Unless your are a recruited athlete, donor kid, come from a famous celebrity, recruited URM, it will probably not make it up for a low gpa.

Asian(Taiwanese)-Jews probably is not considered URM at Madison. It considered Africa American, Hispanic and Southeast Asian Students (Hmong, Laotian. and Vietnamese) as URM.

You can get a good idea of what UW-Madison is looking for in prospective students by googling “common data set uw madison”‘ and click on the latest academic year.

As an alumnus and many happy cousins/friends/siblings of UW-Madison, my suggestion is for you to apply EA since that’s your #1 school but have safeties. More than likely, you will get deferred to regular round but you may get accepted too. You won’t know if you don’t apply. Continue to do well your senior year, especially in those AP classes, and write a killer essay as UW Madison considered it very important. Best of luck to you and hopefully “Uw-Madison Class of 2025” from you.

P.s. you wrote uwm and that’s the wrong school when you are referring to Madison. We have a Public University in Milwaukee, WI and it goes by the name “UWM”. When referring to UW-Madison, most people will say “UW” or “Madison” but never uwm.

Oh I know I’m not a hook, I just think my life overseas gives me good material to work with for an essay.

I received far more A’s in my APs than B’s. I actually did worse in my Honors courses, which explains my low GPA, but a massive majority of my Bs came at the end of Freshman Year, when both my Aunt and Grandma (Both of whom I was extremely close with) were diagnosed with cancer. My Aunt thankfully was able to Get through it, but unfortunately my Grandpa’s health worsened exponentially during the first few months of sophomore year and passed away around that October. I actually I had a bunch of Cs in my first quarter of Sophomore year but was able to raise them to Bs.
I believe I had 7 Bs (All Honors) during that time, which really took a blow to my GPA.
I’m choosing to not include it in my essay as it doesn’t relate at all to my theme, and I’m guessing many people experience deaths during High School so idk if it really explains my poor academic performance during those two semesters.
Do you Think it would’ve worth it to try to explain in my Application, or have my Counselor talk about it in her Recommendation.

Also idk if this means anything but according to Naviance, there have been kids From my high school with similar (or worse) weighted GPAs than mine who have gotten accepted, and with SATs well below the 1400s (some even around the 1200s but that student was waitlisted/accepted). I honestly don’t know what this means for me but it gives me some hope.