<p>How has it turned out for you, both academically and socially?</p>
<p>I’m not in college yet but I had to turn down one of my dream schools to enroll to UW solely due to my financial status. I got into UC Irvine but the cost will turn out to be around 50k for the first year because all Freshmen must live in dorms their first year and that’s not cheap…along with it’s 36k tuition for OOS. However, I know that I will enjoy going to UW regardless.</p>
<p>@swishbig stats?</p>
<p>1680 SAT
3.7 UW gpa
3.94 W gpa
APUSH, AP Euro, AP Eng 4, and tons of honors
Tennis all 4 years, Tutoring, Worked in Taiwan over the summer, Violin, NHS, Key Club
Essays were well written (I think this played a huge factor in all of my college acceptances)
OOS (This most likely played a role as well)</p>
<p>To be frank, UW is what I imagined it would be. Don’t get me wrong; it’s a great public university. It has a very well-rounded academic environment, student life (clubs, events, sports, etc), and a mild climate (not too rainy nor too sunny). At the same time, it’s still the state university I imagined it to be. There are MANY commuters, so much as to say that, besides myself, the only students really living in the dorms are OOS and International. I could say a bunch of other stuff, but the first thing you should know is that it’s a huge commuter university. That speaks a lot about the mentality of the average UW student. If you want to know more specifics, just message me. The dream university I turned down was UCLA. And man, did that hurt. In fact, I still think about it once in a while. Who doesn’t want to go to UCLA? Anyway, my stats at the time were: 3.89 uw gpa; 2080 SAT I; 5 APs and a few honors courses; varsity football and track (each 2 years); Senior Team Captain of Relay for Life/Treasurer and Secretary for Green Team/Co-Editor In Chief and Body-Copy Editor for Yearbook/NHS and Key Club/ Washington Scholar (1 of 147 students in Washington state selected as the top 1% of the graduating high school class of 2012 based on academic and extracurricular achievements by Washington’s Education Board), and all that other crap.</p>