<p>I just got accepted to University of Delaware today, and American University over the weekend. I really wanna hear from GW though, it’s my top choice <3</p>
<p>U. Maryland College Park
SUNY Binghamton
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<p>I’ve been accepted to St. Edward’s, University of Texas - Austin, Texas A&M, and Elon University. Still holding out for a few northeastern schools, but GW is looking pretty good from where I’m standing.</p>
<p>I was accepted to American University with a Presidential Scholarship. I have yet to hear back from anywhere else to which I applied RD. I applied ED to Duke and was deferred, but a very small percentage of the deferrals are accepted, so we’ll see what happens there I suppose hahah. AU is my last-choice school, so I’m hoping to get in to some other places! GWU is sort of a safety for me, but as the school also tends to reject students whom they consider to be overqualified, so it’s hard to tell. Damn Tufts syndrome…</p>
<p>I don’t agree with your analysis. Look at last year’s thread from March 25th. GW accepted many highly qualified students, and also rejected many with similar stats. It’s not a safety for you or anybody else RD- they are very hard to predict. They don’t reject the “overqualified” (very smug, I must say)- they reject people who they think are not very interested in GW.</p>
<p>Allow me to amend what I stated before, as it certainly came out a bit pretentious and that was not my intention (I strive for honesty via CC because I think threads are useless when students pretend to be more or less intelligent than they are).</p>
<p>According to my college counselor’s office, students at my school with GPAs above a 3.6 unweighted and SAT scores above a 2200 are usually waitlisted or rejected by GWU because the school does not believe the students actually plan on attending. To put things in perspective, the average accepted GPA for GWU from my high school is a 3.4 and the SAT score is a 2019. Schmohawk, it is actually somewhat common knowledge that GWU behaves that way with its acceptances, at least with applicants from the Northeast and parts of the Mid-Atlantic. My grades and test scores are higher than those I previously mentioned, and while it is more difficult to get in to the Elliott School than it is to get in to the school of arts and sciences, I still do not know what to expect.</p>
<p>Yes, isn’t that exactly what I said? I agree with you. They frequently reject applicants with very good stats in the RD round. Have you visited or interviewed? Was your essay very GW-centric as opposed to DC -centric?</p>
<p>they didn’t call me to interview… is that a bad sign?</p>
<p>You have to call them to set up an on-campus interview with an admissions staffer. There are no local alumni interviews. Did you visit?</p>
<p>no I didn’t get around to it</p>
<p>…I’m going to punch someone when I get waitlisted because I have a 4.0 unweighted and a 33 act…</p>
<p>Do you know if that yield thing also applies if students apply to accelerated programs or honors programs?</p>
<p>I visited and wrote a nice essay, but didn’t interview. I am very interested though. Also I don’t have the overachiever grades but rather borderline decent (3.3 GPA with a big upward trend, and 1930 SAT). What’s my chances?</p>
<p>I just wanna know</p>
<p>My son visited AND interviewed. What GW seemed to stress above all was the interest in the student wanting to go to GW above any other school. Those are the students, I believe, that are accepted, and why some seemingly “over-qualified” students are turned down. I don’t know how they would view a student who had not even visited.</p>
<p>Especially if the applicant lives in Maryland. That sows some serious indifference.</p>
<p>So living in MD will hurt you in admissions?</p>
<p>Living in MD, but not visiting and/or interviewing, will show indifference to the admissions office.</p>
<p>From what I remember about last year’s discussion, the people who had figured that GW was a safety and then were waitlisted or rejected had a few things in common:
- They didn’t show interest during the admissions process by visiting and /or interviewing
- They wrote lackluster essays, or essays about how great it would be to study in DC
3 In addition to # 1 and/or #2, they answered the “where else did you apply” question with
Ivies and Stanford and MIT.</p>
<p>@schmohawk: referring to your #2 reason you are saying applicants who wrote about how great it would be to study in DC got waitlisted/rejected?</p>
<p>Yes that did come out on last year’s thread. GW doesn’t want to hear why you’d like to be in DC, they want to hear why you’d like to go to GW.</p>