<p>Any insight into this program ? Does it consist of students from the various schools at GW ( e.g. business, Eliot,etc.. ) ?? Thanks.</p>
<p>i second this question... all i know is that it is a very new program (instituted within the last year or two)</p>
<p>Students from any of the schools can be in the Honors program. The first two years they take 8-12 credits per semester of the set Honors curriculum. It is an interdisciplinary program and fulfills most of their general university requirements. There are also opportunities to take Honors versions of some other classes. My D is taking Honors Comparative Poli Sci this semester, in addition to "Origins" and "Scientific Reasoning" - the two required classes. There are ten students in the Poli Sci class and she has a fabulous professor that she has a lot of close contact with, as opposed to being in a large lecture hall section of an introductory level class. So far she seems very happy with her decision to be in the Honors program and I beleive she would recoomend it to prospective students.</p>
<p>I'm thinking about doing it if I get accepted to it.
What are the typical stats for it?</p>
<p>from what I've read, they only accept 10% of all Honors program applicants. So I imagine, a 32+ ACT or 2100+ SAT at least, rank/GPA in top 5-10% at least, and one great essay/booklist. Don't know for sure, though.</p>
<p>I was accepted as an honors student last year with the Presidential scholarship. I didn't accept the position, but the letter they send was very nice. By the way I did have one issue with GWU. You don't get your full financial aid award without copies of you and your parents tax returns. </p>
<p>They never let me know that i needed to send tax returns this until April. So after I sent the information in they said it would take two weeks. After two weeks still no answer. I called three times and finally wrote the out-going GWU President, but I never did get a full financial aid award. Jus a run around for over a month.</p>
<p>I lost a lot of respect for the institution because of that. </p>
<p>I planned to study business and my final choices were:</p>
<p>NYU (Stern)
Washington University (Olin)
Emory (Goizueta)
Canegie-Mellon (Tepper)
GWU</p>
<p>I chose NYU and am really happy in NYC.</p>
<p>My D also received a merit Presidential Scholarship from GWU. She accepted it and is very happily attending the university. It's strange that GW asked for your tax returns, hsseniorlooking. We did not give GW any tax returns and they told us this was totally unnecessary for a merit scholarship. The only time tax returns are required is when one is requesting financial aid based upon need. Merit scholarships at GW are totally unrelated to need and there should be no reason a tax return was required.</p>
<p>The tax returns were not for the merit scholarship. I was waiting for the full financial letter. I figured I'd just get the Presidential award and the unsubsidized stafford. But no letter, no mention of stafford or other information. Did you get a financial aid letter from GWU. I didn't and when I called, I was told no tax returns no letter. They never notified me of this at any time. I had to call and find outthen I got the run-around, even after over-nighting the tax returns.</p>
<p>Luckily GWU wasn't my first choice, but the whole process and their lousy attitude completely turned me off. I was a student they were interested in, but they treated me with disdain and indifference. There was no attempt to even get me the information before I had to make a final decision.</p>
<p>The financial aid office at GWU is truly the weak link in their admission process.</p>
<p>Not sure why they sent it to me, but GW Admissions sent me a booklet today regarding Honors, Accelerated, and Special Programs...anyone else get one?</p>