<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1470/1600, 2110/2400
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math II: 640, Bio M: 700, Chem: 700
[<em>] ACT:
[</em>] GPA: 3.91
[<em>] Rank: top 10%? IDK My school might not rank.
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Common App- very personal. Other people liked it a lot. I guess it was good/great.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: One great one, one ehh one
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Amazing.
[</em>] Hook (if any): Tex-mex, single mother
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: NY
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Mexican/Irish/Spanish-American
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] major strength/weakness: Community service/sports? Summer prgrams...all strengths
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: All the above. >.<
[li] going to attend?: BETTER GIVE ME SOME DAMN MONEY!!!![/li][/ul]Other Factors: I like chicken.</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT:CR 580 W 570 M 660
[ *] SAT IIs: Math I-700, Physics-720
[ *] ACT:-
[ *] GPA:36/42 (IB)
[ *] Rank: Top 20%
[ *] Other stats: Toefl iBT: 107/120
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays: Very good
[ *] Teacher Recs: Excellent
[ *] Counselor Rec: Excellent
[ *] Hook (if any): no
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: Greece
[ *] School Type: private, very demanding (IB program)
[ *] Ethnicity: Greek
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strength/weakness: Strengts: Creative, really good recs, 8th national downhill snowboard champion. Weaknesses: Mediocre Sat's (except for SAT II's )
[ *] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Maybe 'cause their engineering school is not that competitive...
[ *] going to attend? Not sure yet
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2280 (770 M, 760 V, 750 W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 710 Math 1, 720 Latin, 740 USH
[<em>] ACT: didn't take
[</em>] GPA: low A- (school doesn't use 4.0 scale)
[<em>] Rank: school doesn't rank
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I think mine represented me well
[</em>] Teacher Recs: the one I read was awesome and the other teachers knows me really well
[<em>] Counselor Rec: she knows and likes me
[</em>] Hook (if any): none really
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: CT
[</em>] School Type: private
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: female
[<em>] major strength/weakness: i don't know, really
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I really love GW and tried to show them that in my application
[li] going to attend? waiting to hear about FA, UHP and 6 year BA/JD. I also have 7 more decisions to get, so we'll see.[/li][/ul]Other Factors: none, really.</p>
<pre><code>* SAT: 1400/2030 (760 CR, 640 M, 630 W)
* SAT IIs:
* ACT: 30
* GPA: 3.37uw/ 3.57w
* Rank: 140/645
* Other stats:
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: good but subjective (was on my experiences with bigotry)
* Teacher Recs: solid
* Counselor Rec: probably generic
* Hook (if any): Location maybe, solid EC with couple of internships and President and Founder of a club
</code></pre>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country: Nebraska
* School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: Indian
* Gender: Male
* major strength/weakness:
* why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered:
* going to attend? almost certainly
</code></pre>
<p>Denied.... oh well, it happens. I did get into Macalester early, so I just need to hear about their finaid. I'm disappointed, as GW was my top choice, but I didn't have my heart so set on it as to be utterly crushed right now.</p>
<pre><code>* SAT: 550 R / 660 M / 640 W...I suck at the SATs
* SAT IIs: 710 US Hist / 730 French / 750 Spanish
* ACT: 31
* GPA: 4.1 W
* Rank: Top 15%
* Other stats:
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: Showed a lot of interest in my opinion, talked about being born in DC, moving away and never really getting to experience it.
* Teacher Recs: One probably average, the other should've been superb.
* Counselor Rec: Good
* Hook (if any): Exchange student
</code></pre>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country: Ohio
* School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: Caucasian
* Gender: Male
* major strength/weakness: Language skills: ranked 7th nationally National French Exam, 15th Spanish Exam. Weak: SATs
* why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered:Showed a lot of interest, hope my essays talking about how being there felt right helped too.
* going to attend? I pray so, Need that $. Deferring no matter what, spending next year in the Netherlands for gap year on exchange.
</code></pre>
<p>Other Factors: Great ECs I think. Did a lot in high school although not entirely athletically oriented.</p>
<p>"I'm biased, and don't want to sound cocky... but usually I write excellent essays, and I thought my GW ones were no exception. I won a national award from NCTE for writing, and am getting recognized for writing at the Texas state capital this weekend. My honors essay was a little off-beat, but A) was still good, I believe and B) shouldn't really have effected my overall admission if my other essays were strong."</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1980 (650CR 630M 700W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 670 Biology 570 US History 570 German
[<em>] ACT:
[</em>] GPA: 3.81 UW
[<em>] Rank: 1st Decile
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: My "Why GW?" essay definitely showed that I did my homework on the school. My common app essay was about my job.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Er, I never sent them in.<br>
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Didn't read it.
[</em>] Hook (if any): None.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: PA
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] major strength/weakness: I wish I could tell you. So far I'm 5/6 (still waiting on the sixth school), and I've been getting into my reaches O.O I wish I knew what I did right.
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Again, I wish I could tell you.
[li] going to attend? I'll definitely consider it...but they're not my first choice.[/li][/ul]Other Factors: I think I had a good mix of EC's.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT:V570 WR660 M520
[</em>] SAT IIs:US570 MI550
[<em>] ACT:
[</em>] GPA:3.0
[<em>] Rank:
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul][ b]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I am not going to hold it back. They were excellent.
[</em>] Teacher Recs:Very Good.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: shes loves me.
[</em>] Hook (if any):My uncle was an honor student there? mentioned him in my essay
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Egypt
[</em>] School Type: Private International (most competitve in the middle east)
[<em>] Ethnicity: Middle-Easterner
[</em>] Gender: M
[<em>] major strength/weakness: Leadership skills/ the Cs on my transcript killed me.
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I really dunno. Could be anything.
[li] going to attend?[/li][/ul][ b]Other Factors:
Congrats to those who were accpeted. To those who were denied, its not you, its them. good luck to everyone.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 710 M 700 CR 770 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 760 Chem 730 US History 690 Math IIC
[<em>] ACT: 32
[</em>] GPA: 4.0 UW 4.7 W
[<em>] Rank: top 10%
[</em>] Other stats: 10 APs (5,5,5,4,3,3 so far)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Great!
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Don't know
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Don't know
[</em>] Hook (if any):
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: FL
[</em>] School Type: public gifted
[<em>] Ethnicity: whitebread
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] major strength/weakness: Strength: I'm well rounded.
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: See above.
[li] going to attend? Probably not.[/li][/ul]*Other Factors: I also had a ton of ECs. But anyway, hopefully one of you guys on the waitlist can get my spot. *</p>
<p>GPA: 4.3 weighted
ACT 34
Class treasurer 2 yrs running
started my own dj business
drum line captain
many many ecs
essays corrected over and over again by english teachers and such</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: CR: 760 WR: 750 MA: 670
[</em>] SAT IIs: Literature: 700 Latin: 710 Math 2: 540 Spanish: 650
[<em>] ACT:
[</em>] GPA: 3.6
[<em>] Rank: Not ranked
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Great
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Excellent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Probably good
[</em>] Hook (if any):
[/ul][ b]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: MA
[</em>] School Type: Small Private
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] major strength/weakness:
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I told them that I really wanted to come
[li] going to attend? I think I'm going to McGill unless I get the scholarships I applied for[/li][/ul]Other Factors:**</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED - Elliot School of International Affairs</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: N/A
[</em>] SAT IIs: 760 Spanish, 710 Chem, 690 Italian, 690 US Hist, 690 Math2
[<em>] ACT:34
[</em>] GPA:4.0 W, guessing 3.6UW
[<em>] Rank: approximately top 15%
[</em>] Other stats:</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays:Awesome
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Awesome
[li] Counselor Rec:3 counselors to a graduating class of 130, so probably crappy [never saw][/li][li] Hook (if any):1st gen college student</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country:MA
[</em>] School Type:Public
[<em>] Ethnicity:White
[</em>] Gender:Have a phallus
[<em>] major strength/weakness:Languages, test scores, EC's
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/deferred:I'm fabulous
[li] going to attend?: Possibly</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:[list]
[*] Didn't apply for financial aid?</p>
<pre><code>* SAT: 1950 (640/660/650)
* SAT IIs: Bio - 620, Math Ic - 630, Lit - 600
* ACT:
* GPA: 3.3 uw/3.6 w
* Rank: 44/280
* Other stats:
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: I procrastinated alot >.>. My "Why GWU" essay was good thou.
* Teacher Recs: meh. nothing special
* Counselor Rec: good
* Hook (if any):
</code></pre>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country: Massachusetts
* School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: Asian
* Gender: Male
* major strength/weakness: My power level was over 9000!
* why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered:
* going to attend? I think so.
</code></pre>
<p>Decision: Accepted! (ccas political science) </p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1960 (M-680 CR- 640 W- 640)
[</em>] SAT IIs: Bio: 710, US Hist: 620 Math2: 670
[<em>] ACT:
[</em>] GPA: about 95 UW, over 100 W
[<em>] Rank: probably top 10
[</em>] Other stats: 5 AP classes
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Good, I guess. My common app one was kind of risky, but i guess it paid off
[</em>] Teacher Recs: didn't see, but probably good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: same^
[</em>] Hook (if any): Ummm.. where I live? Maybe my interest in politics
[/ul]Location/Person: **[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Maine
[</em>] School Type: Private
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender:Female
[<em>] major strength/weakness: My gpa? weaknesses- my test scores
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: not really sure. I don't really have any hooks other than my location
[li] going to attend? Only if I get amazing financial aid. I need lots of it.[/li][/ul]Other Factors:** I'm kinda surprised after looking at these stats. Mine are lower than most of yours. Maybe my reccomendations helped a lot. I don't have many EC's.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1770 (CR 480 WR 490 MA 800)
[</em>] SAT IIs: Biology M 720 Math II 800 Japanese 770
[<em>] ACT: N/A
[</em>] GPA: 3.6 UW 4.4 W
[<em>] Rank: N/A
[</em>] Other stats: -Volunteered at an orphanage in China.
-Created a short film about current environmental issues on YouTube, and it was played at San Diego Film Festival
-Like some other Asians, I like to play the piano and love to draw&paint.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Unique one: I wrote something like "if I were vegetable, I would be lettuce."
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Really flattering actually. She marked top 1% for most of the categories.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: I have no idea, but it was fair I guess.
[</em>] Hook (if any): None
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: MA
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] major strength/weakness: My strength is that I don't have any weaknesses, and my weakness is that I don't have any strengths. JK
[</em>] why you think you were accepted?: I think my background is somewhat unique since I have lived in three different countries...?
[li] going to attend? Highly Possible[/li][/ul]Other Factors: I took TOEFL which eventually helped my hopeless CR and WR scores.</p>
<p>I noticed that as well, but I had already edited the post several times and it wouldn't allow me to go back in and correct my error. It's ironic, I'm aware. Needless to say, my college essays (like all my essays) go through a bit more revision than my posts on CC.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: CR:770 M:780 W:800 [1550/2350]
[li] SAT IIs: USHistory:730 MathII:730 Lit:780 BioM:760 and Latin:730 (but I don't think Latin was part of the scorereport I sent GW since I took it fairly late)[/li][</em>] ACT:
[<em>] GPA: We don't do the 4.0 scale. But my weighted average is something like a 97 or 98
[</em>] Rank: 3/258
[li] Other stats: National Merit Scholar Finalist. AP Scholar w/ Distinction. Presidential Scholar Candidate.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Well, I wasn't so sure my essays were very good. But that happens a lot where things that I write are judged to be better than I think they are? So I'm not sure to what extent they helped me.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: I didn't see them, but I would think they were pretty good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Didn't see it either, but I'm even more confident that this one was really great. she loves me
[</em>] Hook (if any): ?</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: RI
[</em>] School Type: Public Exam School
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] major strength/weakness: I'm not completely sure. My SATs and Rank/grades are obviously a plus. I also take a relatively "challenging" courseload
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Who ever realllly knows?
[li] going to attend? It's a definite possibility. But I applied to 15 schools total and still have 7 more to hear from.[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Other Factors:[ul]
[*] ECs: 2yrs of Science Olympiad [Last year we came in 1st at States], 2 yrs of Academic Decathlon, 3 yrs of Math Team, 3 yrs of being on the Yearbook staff, 3 years of Club/JV Lacrosse, Volunteer work through Church, and a couple other random things I'm forgetting [/ul]</p>