<p>Kulakai - we’ve been discussing the Yellow Ribbon Program, a special addition to the new Post 9/11 GI Bill. Are you familiar with it?</p>
<p>The YRP is an agreement between the school and the military above and beyond the Post 9/11 GI bill. It allows a school to contribute up to half of the difference between the amount covered by the Post 9/11 bill and the total tuition. The military, in turn, will match what the school contributes, covering up to full tuition!</p>
<p>Some schools, like GWU, offer that maximum. GWU offers about 18k and the military matches that 18k. Combined with about 4k as the highest DC public tuition, that covers the approximately 40k of tuition. The only catch is its first come first serve, and the school reserves the right to limit the number of students that receive the benefit. GWU limits it at 240. It makes transfers, usually the last admitted, really nervous that all slots will be taken up by the time they are accepted. On the flip side, because you have to be off active duty to use the YRP, most military applicants will be applying as transfers…so that evens the playing field a little.</p>
<p>Have you worked with any vets taking advantage of the YRP? Was the process relatively seamless, or was it ridiculously bureaucratic? Thanks for the input!</p>
<p>It was relatively seamless for them but then again I have good connections with the VA here from working in politics so it was easy for me to get questions answered quickly when they arose. It is a newer program they are trying to promote and push hard. Most of the bureaucratic nonsense comes into play with VA Health from my experience of helping vets jump through hoops with VA issues.</p>
<p>It might also be worth noting the tuition at my current school is next to nothing compared to a private school like GWU so there were no issues with reaching a maximum amount of students who could apply for YRP.</p>
<p>It looks like you will receive an email informing you to check your application status on the Activity Center, according to the GWU admissions and the majority of CC users. However, a couple people last year claimed they received snail mail notification before anything online…</p>
<p>I would definitely be checking the mail versus relying on receiving an e-mail. Last year, I received my admissions offer for Elliot by snail mail a few days before the online system was showing me as admitted. </p>
<p>The thing is that I am done with school-as most of us- I am ready to start my summer and travel. However, I have to wait for GWU to make a decision. AU accepted me more than a month and a half ago…
Tired of this indecisiveness !! As much as I want to attend this school, waiting for this long is ALMOST a downer !!</p>
<p>Interesting story - it says the yield rate is higher, but 2014 class estimates are still smaller than last year’s. GWU was anticipating a 2014 class of about 2,350 after offers of admission were sent. They are still anticipating a class of 2,350-2,390, despite the higher than expected yield.</p>
<p>I think the fact is awesome kitnkat, we should really take this stats into consideration. Because most of admissions are based in a space basis, less freshman = more transfer :). It’s logic</p>
<p>I haven’t posted on here before but I’ve kept up with it and I just wanted to let you know what I heard. I’ve been emailing back and forth with one of the people in the admissions office fairly regularly throughout this process, and I emailed him today to find out what the deal was. This was his response:</p>
<p>We just finished our waitlist process, and are now moving to transfers.* No decision has been made about when the those decisions will be completed, but I suggest it should be within the next week or two.</p>
<p>Unfortunately this means a longer wait for us than I think anyone suspected, but at least we know what’s taking them so long.</p>
<p>Maybe they mean they’re starting to send decisions-not starting to review. It could mean they just finished notifying the waitlist and they are getting ready to notify transfers.</p>
<p>Did you guys applied to other schools in the DC Area ? Does somebody know why this year they are taking that long to provide answers ?? They are supposed to have received less freshman apps , so why are they taking that long to go over less applications on their desk ?
One of my best friend just got accepted to Hardvard, and he was noticed a month ago. Hardvard and other IVY league schools received twice as much transfer apps than GWU or GU, both taking an eternity to let us know.</p>
<p>At this point, an apology from the school would be appropriate… Dont you think ?</p>
<p>What if some of us have been waiting for almost a month and a half and turned down other schools admissions offers to be DENIED at our dream school…That would be soooooooooo wrong !!</p>