<p>Hey guys, I'm applying to GWU in January (ED II) and I wanted to get an idea of how good my chances are.</p>
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<li>I go to a small public high school that has a good reputation in my state. I transfered from a poor city school with a rather notorious reputation at the very beginning of my freshman year.</li>
<li>I am ranked 37/163 in my class, putting me in the top 25%.</li>
<li>I have a 3.7/4.0 GPA; I've taken at least three honors classes each year, but no APs because my school only has two and neither would fit into my schedule.</li>
<li>I've taken two college courses (US II and English 101) and got 93s in both of them.</li>
<li>I'm taking the English AP test and have been preparing for it with the AP English teacher during my study period.</li>
<li>I took the ACTs for the first time in September and my composite score was a 25. I'm taking them again in December. I would have taken them in October, but I had swine flu... which I talked to an admissions rep. about and while they said that a 25 composite score was fine, I want to take the ACT again and make my application stronger.</li>
<li>I went to the Colonial Connection in October. For those of you that don't know what that is, it is a program GW put together that allows students to stay overnight with a current student. </li>
<li>I have an interview scheduled for this Friday.</li>
<li>My recommendation letters are very strong (I'm sending three).</li>
<li>I haven't been terribly active in my school community because I live a fair distance from it, but I've been involved in a lot of volunteer services closer to my home: I'm a Big Sister in the Big Brother/Big Sister program; I'm a Girl Scout leader, and was previously an Assistant Leader for two years; I also devote some of my time to the local senior center, the homeless shelter, and I privately tutor several children (ages 8-13) and have been since my freshman year. I've also shadowed a kindergarten teacher (I help her plan lessons, put together activities, etc.) for three years, am currently interning at a hospital, and will be doing a job shadow with a dentist in a month (I'm not quite sure what I want to do after college, heh).</li>
<li>I'm the first person in my family to attend college and I'm... what I guess most people call biracial? I'm Hispanic/White.</li>
<li>My first term grades were:
a) Honors Anatomy and Physiology: 93
b) Honors Greek: 92
c) Honors Latin III: 93
d) Physics: 85
e) Pre-Calculus: 87
f) Basic Women's Defense: 85</li>
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<p>For the second half of the year, I'm going to be taking Comparative Religions and Statistics I also.</p>
<p>I've been looking at some of the other posts from students that are also applying to GWU and I'm a little worried, honestly. I'd like to think that I've taken full advantage of what is in front of me, but it seems like everyone else has much stronger applications.</p>