Chance Me! GW, American

Hi!

I’m a white, female senior. I’m applying to GW and American as my top schools and wanted to know my chances. I’m applying for Political Communication and the Politics and Values program for GW and journalism and honors for AU. I listed out my basic stats and everything below. I’m not applying for financial aid because we’re one of those families that has a high efc but will have 3 kids in college, looking for merit aid. My school is a really competitive magnet school and I’m probably one of the people who’s average. There’s a ton of kids who take all APs or IBs so I was just wondering how I match up compared to others. Thanks!

Location: Raleigh, NC
Current GPA: Weighted-4.087 Unweighted-3.5652
Rank-169 of 582
SAT (Attempted 2 times): First: Math- 540 Reading-670, Second: Math-730 Reading-670
AP Scores: AP Seminar-3, WHAP-3, AP Lang-3, APES-4, APUSH-4 (taking AP Lit and AP Psych this year)
Significant Classes: all the APs above plus IB TCT, IB Global Politics, video production for all 4 years, no science or math senior year (didn’t fit in with schedule), french all 4 years

Extracurriculars:
-Model UN all 4 years. Held leadership for sophomore through senior year. President senior year.
-Political Club for sophomore through senior year. Treasurer junior year, president senior year.
-Intern for mayoral campaign during sophomore year.
-Volunteer for Autism Society of NC during Junior year.
-Volunteer for Southeast Raleigh Promise during Senior year.
-Volunteer for student-led organization that raises money to buy supplies for teachers at my school
-Costume shop technician for my school’s spring musical all 4 years, videographer for junior and senior year musicals
-Emerson College summer pre-college for digital film
-UNC School of the Arts summer pre-college for film
-Cashier at a fast food restaurant for second half of junior year and all of senior year.

Awards:
-4 conference specific awards for model un (as of the beginning of senior year)
-AP Capstone diploma
-AP Scholar with distinction
-NATAS nomination for a short documentary

Recommendations:
-My French teacher who I’m really close with. I eat lunch in her room a lot and we talk about politics a lot.
-My history teacher who went to GW. I’m really involved in his class and I think he likes me.
-My AP Research teacher. I’m was really involved in that class and I help her with her busy work a lot. I was definitely a teacher’s pet.
-My counselor. The counselors at my school don’t get to know anyone until senior year unless you have some special circumstance. They do interviews to get to know you and I think I did well in mine.

Current Courses:
My school lets us take IB classes without being in the IB program.
-AP Lit
-AP Psych
-IB Global Politics SL
-Holocaust and Genocide in World Studies (honors elective)
-IB Twentieth Century Topics SL
-French 4 (honors)
-Video Production 3 (double period honors)

I’m no expert, but I like your odds at both schools. Your SAT score is very competitive for these schools, your GPA is good, and your ECs are fine.

My son and I toured both (twice) in the last few months. The student body seemed very different at both, but both campuses had an electric vibe that he liked. We’re from RTP too, btw.

Both schools will be a little pricey without any aid, so make sure you parents can afford it without you taking out too much in loans.

Good luck, and let us know if you get in to either/both.

@EconPop I got into American! Waiting on GW and some others to come out today.

Congratulations!