[ b]Objective:**
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[ *] SAT I:
[ *] ACT:
[ *] SAT II:
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[ *] AP scores:
[ *] IB scores:
[ ] Senior Year Course Load:
[ ] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):[/list]
[ b]Subjective:
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[ *] Extracurriculars:
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recommendations:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ ] Additional Rec:
[ ] Interview:[/list]
[ b]Other
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[ *] State (if domestic applicant):
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ ] Income Bracket:
[ ] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/list]
[ b]Reflection
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[ *] Strengths:
[ *] Weaknesses:
[ ] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[ ] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/list]
[ b]General Comments:
Regular Decision
Major: (Milken Institute School of Public Health)
GPA: 3.75 UW/ 4.62 W GPA
SAT: Didn’t submit
ECs:
President of Art Honor Society
Member of: National Honor Society, National Science Honor Society, National Art Honor Society, National English Honor Society, National Spanish Honor Society, National Social Sciences Honor Society
-Candidate for Silver Knight (community service based award in Florida)
-Tutor for kids at local church
-Have a non profit community service project that I funded. It is based on Malala and her messaging of women’s rights for education. I live in Miami so since there are so many immigrants coming here from Venezuela and Cuba they don’t really know about the SAT and ACT and the whole college process here. So I offer them free SAT/ACT Workshops (paid for and arranged by me) and do seminars and presentations for college tips and tricks/ motivation.
-Sport: used to play club volleyball freshman and sophomore year of HS. It got expensive so I left.
-I have 1300+ community service hours
-Have received awards for my community service from the former president of UM (Dr. Shalala) and from others (POTUS Presidential Service Award).
Classes:
7 APs: AP English lit and lang, AP Spanish lit and lang, AP Studio Art, AP us history, AP microeconomics. The rest of my classes have been mostly Honors (with 1 or 2 regular classes due to unavailability for Honors level)
My teachers didn’t really know me that well so I feel like their recommendations were fine but nothing out of the ordinary. My counselor’s recs were pretty good i think because they both have a good relationship with me and know me better.
Hooks/ ABOUT ME: Female, Hispanic, parents are immigrants (from south america). My dad lost his job last year but got a new one in another town so he doesn’t live with us anymore. My mom lost her job this year. My dad is a mechanical engineer and my mom is a journalist for a Colombian newspaper. I am lower middle class as a result of these unfortunate events.
I applied to: Northeastern, Boston College, Boston Uni, UVA, Tulane, U of Miami and Harvard and got rejected from all 4 of them. I was hoping I would get at least into BU and BC. I am still waiting on Dartmouth and Brown.
How many people actually get off the waitlist?
Last year they accepted 100 ish out of 700 who accepted their spot on the waitlist
Does anyone know if merit aid is available when coming in from the wait list?
I think the numbers last year weren’t as good as emmyers73 suggests. According to GW’s Common Data Set, 62 out of 1354 people on the wait list were admitted last year. Here’s the link: https://www.gwu.edu/~ire/fa.htm (see section C2).
I think a lot of us got waitlisted because of financial aid…
GW, I’m just learning, has become need-aware in recent years. It may be your target school, but if you have more financial need than another student in your school, you may be waitlisted.
@GWdreamteam1998 yeah thats what I heard.
I researched it and I found some weird stuff.
http://www.gwhatchet.com/2013/10/21/gw-misrepresented-admissions-and-financial-aid-policy-for-years/
Quick question: Will they notify you once all the spots that can be filled by waitlisted applicants are filled and there is no longer any chance to be admitted?