WOW! GW received 3,100 University Honors Program applications and choose 125 students! So proud of my daughter!
@HappyFace2018, congrats to your daughter! Just a note on those numbers: there are indeed approximately 125 students in each incoming class of the University Honors Program. That likely means that they admit perhaps 3X that number, since most will attend other universities. (GWU’s [2015 yield](Institutional Research | The George Washington University) was a little under 30%.) Still quite an achievement!
@yotommy Thank you so much 
Wow, that’s interesting since the Director of the program said they only chose 125. Maybe she is expecting 250 students to commit to other schools or choose not to participate in the program (my daughter had to “accept the spot” through her GW Activity Center. At any rate it was an awesome day!! Thanks again!!
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@efinand @tooscared I read your posts earlier in this thread about appealing GW financial aid. Have you done so and heard back from them yet? I appealed and got an email today. They upped my daughter’s grant award but not by as much as I had been suggesting to them (I also sent documentation as to why). Would love to hear what has happened with others who appealed.
We appealed and were awarded an extra $5000. Very pleased. Really thought they’d just give us more loans.
@Biggdan $5,000 is a nice chunk of change. For some reason, GWU removed a dependent from my FAFSA (grandparent). I’m still waiting for them to tell me why and if it changes my daughters Stafford loan eligibility. I just happen to receive a notice from FAFSA and called GWU student aid to question it.
@bmcmom, @tooscared @Biggdan, we did hear back from our appeal and got only additional loans. I was disappointed because another school we appealed (who has a similar price tag to GW) came back with an additional scholarship and grant aid for a total of $13,800 more.
How many dorms will you guys/your children be putting down? I’ve heard not to list the Vern if you don’t want to live there. Will 10 preferences be enough?
@gonewiththeair My daughter hasn’t been able to get in yet.
@HappyFace2018 hm, that’s weird. I was able to get in and register just fine!
@gonewiththeair She’s been able to get in. Thank you. So excited for all of you!!
For students/families traveling in, I was able to find a really nice hotel in Falls Church, VA (25 minutes from GW) for a fraction of the cost of staying in DC. The hotel has free onsite parking. We’ve booked our August and October (family weekend) trips. August $72 a night and October $99 a night at the Falls Church Marriott Fairview Park, Falls Church
@HappyFace2018, thanks for the hotel tip. Any idea how close that is to train?
@efinand I don’t believe it’s close to mass transit but it is “centrally located near major highways”. When we attended “Inside GW Day” we stays at a hotel in Fort Belvoir (Alexandria, VA) which was about 20 minutes away. Traffic was fine and the hotel was $99 a night. The hotel I provided it close to Tysons Corner I and II which are very high end malls (we used to window shop in them when we lived in Alexandria,VA).
@HappyFace2018, I just booked at the Quality Inn Tyson’s Corner for $71/night via Expedia. We won’t have a car and they provide a free shuttle to the metro. It won’t be luxurious, but it will do and since we’re staying 5 nights for CI (and going broke for college :)) we figured this worked.
@efinand :)) the downside to driving one small SUV is having to rent a mini van to load it up with the world for our travel to GW in August :D. We are flying into Reagan National in October for the GW family weekend (got RT tickets for $270!).
I here you on the hotel. When we took her to Connecticut for her foreign affairs program at Yale we drove and both hotels (to and from) were not the best but after paying $6,000 for the program we were good to go
The hotel thing sounds so stressful! For CI and for the beginning of the school year, my parents and I will be staying with friends who live in Bethesda!
@gonewiththeair, you are so lucky! I do have a good friend in Reston and a cousin in Arlington, but we’re holding off on staying with them just yet. I figure we have 4 more years to avail them of their hospitality!
We’ve just decided that for move-in, we’re going to ship his stuff and fly in rather than drive. We’re from Kansas and it’s a loooong drive.
@gonewiththeair I’m a government employee and we’ve moved six time. Between traveling both here and abroad for business and leisure it’s all good. Because we’ve traveled extensively my daughter can pick up and go and can very easily acclimate as evidenced by her Thurston 6 :))