Hi!
I’m a white, female senior. I’m applying to GW and wanted to know my chances. I’m applying for Political Communication and the Politics and Values program at SMPA. I’m also interested in a minor in linguistics. I listed out my basic stats and everything below. My school is a really competitive magnet school and I’m probably one of the people who’s average. Thanks!
Location: Raleigh, NC
Current GPA: W-4.087 UW-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 also really want to apply ED1 since GW is my dream school but my mom is worried about getting merit aid since we won’t qualify for financial aid.