White male
Applying to GWU School of Business
Rank:12/425
SAT: 1350, 640 Math, 710 Reading
5s on Euro, US, Psych and Lang & Comp
Captain swim team (States, district medalist, school records)
Captain Golf team
Captain Debate (Nat qualifier, State finalist, etc)
Captain Mock Trial
National Honor Society
League Sportsmanship/Character council member
Recs: 7/10 probably, nothing was amazing, but more than just rewriting my resume
Common App Essay: 8/10
GW essay: I wrote about how I like politics, GW is in DC, and has a major that combines what I love, public policy and business economics.
I visited in June, and loved it there. D.C. just has a vibe I really appreciated. Chances??
Thanks 
I’d say you have a pretty good shot
What’s your GPA?
As long as it’s in-line with the rest of your stats, I think you have a pretty-good shot, as well.
@NHuffer Omg sorry forgot my GPA lol, 97.1/100… we use a scale out of 100 but converts to like 3.95
My calculations show 3.88, but regardless, my original “prediction” stays the same. Not too much longer for you to receive word
can someone chance me?
ACT (breakdown): 31 super score (29 science, math 32, reading 34, english 28)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8+, weighted got 4.5 for the first semester of senior year. 4.02 for cum, but upwards trend
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 20% (school is competitive)
AP (place score in parenthesis):I’ve taken 6 (we can only take AP’s junior and senior year) 4 on stat 3 on chem (didn’t send these) Have A’s in all
Senior Year Course Load: 4 APs, Honors English, Chamber singers
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Music Scholar, best exemplar of my school acronym, nhs and mhs
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): math team, RAAFT, athletes responsible, Help to africa, secretary of one. section leader of my choir, varsity cheerleading 2 years, varsity cc two years,
Job/Work Experience: head instructor at my job I teach STEM classes to kids,
Volunteer/Community service: tutor kids after school at a middle school, backback drive, feed my starving children, and alot of other stuff but not as involved.
Summer Activities: working, tutoring, intern at a state senators campaign
Essays: my battle with OCD
Teacher Recommendation: I sent 2 id say 8/10
Counselor Rec: Yes we are really close and she’s nominated me for leadership awards
Additional Rec: my boss who is the president of the company
Other: I emailed my counselor a few times to show interest, I wasn’t able to visit though
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Biomedical engineering or math
State (if domestic applicant): CT
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: F
Income Bracket: 90k
Reflection
Strengths: ACT, GPA
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: my essay
Weaknesses: ECs
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Acpt: Umiami, UCONN, Clemson, Catholic Denied: Northeastern
This is a joke… your act grade is super scored and it is still that low. Your extra curriculurs aren’t even that good. Yes you have done cheerleading and choir and stuff like that but that is a group based. What is your individual outside accomplishments. Also if you are majoring in a math related field and you have a 32 on the act math, not to mention that the act math just tests stuff you learned in school. Come on. Where is your sat. Where is your sat 2 math. There are two levels why didn’t you take one of them? Where is your ap calc? Also where are your sat 2 bio. Sat chemistry. All of that. Ap scores don’t matter. They just show as one of the current gw student wrote on another forum they just show if you know the topic or not. In the end your relying on your gpa. But your gpa honestly looks inflated to me. Your teachers are either way too easy or you sweeter then because your gpa doesn’t match your test scores. A 4.5 gpa should be around my sat score since I got a little higher than your gpa which is around 1500 so that would be a 34 on the act. You can’t tell me your bad at taking tests also because how then would have a 4.5 gpa.
@justincheng considering the average ACT for GW is a 29, a 32 is great! It’s funny how you wasted so much time writing that paragraph. Pretty pathetic if you ask me. @neutopschool I think you have a great chance.
@offtocollege2021 He’s been posting hate comments (probably salty that he got denied somewhere), pay no mind to him.
@neutopschool @justincheng First of all, the stats for neutopschoom are fine and has a chance just like anyone. @justincheng, I don’t know who you think you are ripping on this person. My son got acccepted to American with an ACT 27. He got a guaranteed sophomore transfer to Boston University which isn’t a full acceptance, but pretty good considering they had 60,000 applicants. So I’m sure you would rip him apart had you seen his stats prior to those decisions coming out. For all students, when you are asking for peers to chance, it really means nothing because the essays do bear weight and no one can see those. Most all that apply would be well qualified but there are only so many spots. It’s a crap shoot. Oh, and @justincheng, my oldest got into Cornell with a 30 ACT so again I’m sure you would’ve ripped him apart as well. He graduated with a prestigious, coveted job too. So please, you have no idea. Everyone has a chance. By the way, my kids have no hooks either. For all students, you all have a chance. It’s a crapshoot. So many qualified and just a limited number of spots. Hang in there!!
@Cornellmom20 @offtocollege2021 @adlor21 thanks for the support everyone haha, I just got into lafayette college which was my top choice so I honestly do not care that someone is trying to rip my stats to shreds. @justincheng If you are applying to college this year, I really hope that everything works out for you. You obviously are upset about something and if it is about a rejection, it happens to the best of us, so I really do think you’ll end up where you need to be, even if it wasn’t your original plan. Best of luck.