<p>I would not cross UW off yet. I mean I don’t go to what would be considered a competitive school by any means and I got accepted. I never took any honors or AP classes. My GPA is a 3.2 and I think I BARELY got a 1700 on the SAT’s and my EC’s are OK. I hope that not that many people get mad that I got accepted, but I’m just saying… it’s not impossible.</p>
<p>@itsmellyyy, im not mad at you, in fact im happy. because my stats are going to look VERY similar to yours. I get very happy every time i see people with low GPAs that get into UW.</p>
<p>I assume you’re in-state?
what was the topic of your essays?</p>
<p>oh yeah question.
do your chances of getting accepted into UW increase if you send in your application early? like super super early, like first day early.</p>
<p>I want to say pretty darn good, but the overachievers send their applications very early. There’s a higher chance that your app is compared to someone with a near 4.0. Then again, University of Washington is on rolling admissions and there’s more space for you.</p>
<p>I sent in my application on January 14th. So, I was reallyyyy pushing it. I discussed my sister’s death resulting from a few chronic heart diseases & basically how that motivated me to want to become a nurse and take the steps towards that goal. Yes, I’m in-state.
I just remember students who found out I got in, with the stats I have, and they were so stingy about it. Eek, don’t want to go through that again!
I really hope you get in!</p>
<p>itsmellyyy- well, congrats on getting in, but you have to understand where us bitter rejectees are coming from! haha, i’m not at all saying that you didn’t deserve to get accepted, i mean, your essay sounds like it was really touching and awesome, but i’m just going to use a little inductive reasoning here and assume that like me, most people with higher or “better” scores than yours feel that they worked harder and therefore deserve admittance more than someone who hasn’t taken a very rigorous course-load or gotten stellar SAT’s or done more than 200 hours of community service or whatever. (i’m also not saying that we’re correct in thinking like this but well, we just kinda do it anyway)</p>
<p>Also, because I take almost all honors/ap, of everyone in my classes who’s applied to uw, everyone who’s heard back thus far has gotten in. unless my class is full of liars, that means that so far, i’m the only one on the honors track who’s been rejected and that, thaaaat is embarrassing.</p>
<p>Anyway, thanks everyone for all the advice and suggestions on like appealing and transferring and whatnot, but I don’t plan on doing either. I think I’m gonna lay this whole UW thing to rest and submit my Evergreen application. (And I don’t mean that sarcastically- Evergreen is kinda awesome when you really think about it.) :D</p>
<p>buddleteachibi – What do I mean? I mean what I meant! I’ve been educating… myself. That makes me self educated. (Like Benjamin Franklin.) I suppose another way to say it would be that I ‘homeschooled myself’, but that wouldn’t be very accurate because I wasn’t really at home most of the time. Not to mention that my parents or a tutor weren’t teaching me. Instead I went to lectures, audited University classes, worked as a field laborer in Turkey, volunteered for a city councilman, studied German in Switzerland, and read, well, a helluva lot.</p>
<p>holdencaulfield – Hey! I’m applying to Evergreen too. (Working on the application as I write this actually!) I think it’s more likely to sympathize with people with unorthodox backgrounds. I wonder how easy it is to transfer from Evergreen to the UW… One of the downsides for me about Evergreen though is that it’s chock full of slackers who still manage to graduate. That irks me.</p>
<p>@RRoseRRed - oh wow! Sorry, I must have missed the notice that you weren’t a ‘typical’ home school high school student =) Sounds like you did a lot, and I’m actually pretty jealous…you’ve gotten those experiences and just… Wow! 
That sounds amazing. Keep us updated on how UW handles your application, since your application should be pretty unique!</p>
<p>Well, I think that “those” greeners are just kind of lost like, they don’t really know what they want to do. From what I’ve heard, the only way to make something of Evergreen is to go there knowing exactly what you want to do and working towards that. The slackers probably have no clue what they want to do, but I think that because it’s so self-directed and individualized that lazy people or unfocused people won’t hold anyone else back. :)</p>
<p>@Igi: what’s “rolling admission”</p>
<p>“Rolling admission is a policy used by many colleges to admit freshmen to undergraduate programs. Under rolling admission, a candidate is invited to submit his application to the university anytime within a large window. The window is usually over six months long, and some schools do not have a previously specified end date (the window simply closes when all spots are filled). The university will then review the application and notify the applicant of their decision within a few weeks from submission.”</p>
<p>Straight from Wikipedia. :D</p>
<p>@mooper - haha my friend showed me this, hilarious! but kind of sad at the same time haha</p>
<p>Haha, that’s horrible.
[Now lets just hope I’m not one of the poor rejected souls 
I’m just so impatient. I applied Nov. 30 but still no decision yet D:]</p>
<p>mooper, how do you know what school i’ll end up at is going to be inferior to uw? funny funny funny joke, but whatever dude, hope you’re having fun at whatever overcrowded diploma mill you attend.</p>
<p>and i sincerely hope you’re having extra, extra fun if said “school” is uw. i’m sure that someday, you’ll be a great addition to whatever mail room or burger king accepts you.</p>
<p>haha ;)</p>
<p>Wow. Congratulations on being immature…both of you.</p>
<p>Just having a college degree already makes you stand out from most other people. Think about this: 51% of all Seattle residents hold a bachelors degree or higher in their field. That makes this city the most educated big city in America. Once you graduate, you would be part of that 50% that actually has a 4-year degree from a university, and that number is even lower in most places around America. Whether you go to UW or WSU, or for that matter any other school, will not determine whether you “fail at life”.</p>
<p>^^ Wow really? That makes Seattle the fittest AND most educated city in America. (btw, do you mind posting where you got those stats about the bachelors degrees? Thanks)</p>
<p>haha, um, i think we were joking? or at least i know i was? thus the haha and strange little emoticon thing?</p>
<p>if i really took offense from someone on an online message board predicting my future failure at life, then i probably would’ve gotten legitly mad and whipped out some actual insults rather than semi stupid semi clever commentary on about the same level as mooper’s.</p>
<p>i call it playful defensiveness. people are allowed to joke around on collegeconfidential, right???</p>
<p>Alright, never mind. Haha.</p>
<p>As for the stats, here they are. </p>
<p>[The</a> Seattle Times: Local News: Seattle ranks as nation’s best-educated big city](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002923946_cities11m.html]The”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002923946_cities11m.html)</p>
<p>“Of the city’s population over the age of 25, 53.8 percent (vs. a national average of 27.4 percent) hold a bachelor’s degree or higher; 91.9 percent (vs. 84.5 percent nationally) have a high school diploma or equivalent.[1] In fact, the United States Census Bureau surveys indicate that Seattle has one of the highest rates of college graduates among major U.S. cities.[2] In addition to the obvious institutions of education, there are significant adult literacy programs and considerable homeschooling. Seattle is also the most literate city in the United States based on a study done by Central Connecticut State University.[3]”</p>
<p>That’s from Wikipedia.</p>
<p>LOL @ holdencaulfield1, nice damage control. You don’t have to make excuses for your rejection, in fact I wouldn’t even worry about it, your rejection is probably good for you in the long run. UW is filled with exceptionally bright students and quite frankly people with a 3.2 GPA would have trouble keeping up.</p>
<p>Haha yeah, you’re totally right. Because a 3.2 student at a private college prep school who’s taken 90% honors and AP classes, got a 1930 on the SAT and is a national achievement commended scholar is just obviously straight up dumb.</p>
<p>okay, seriously though, what’s your agenda man? i don’t go hopping into boards and start being a dick to people, what’s the point? does it make you feel better about yourself or something? so much for joking around, you need to chill.</p>
<p>i originally made this board as a warning of sorts like a, “here are my stats, i was rejected, if yours are similar, be careful” kind of thing. not a “i was rejected, please come and hate on me” kind of thing.</p>
<p>so i think you should just leave, as you’re not welcome here. :)</p>