<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT: 1820
[ *] SAT IIs: 710 in lit, 510 in US History (yikes! I know)
[ *] ACT: 27
[ *] GPA: 3.74
[ *] Rank: 17
[ *] Other stats: weight gpa of 4.3
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays: One on how I run my own website, and the other on why GW is awesome.
[ *] Teacher Recs: Two
[ *] Counselor Rec:One
[ *] Hook (if any): Line and sinker?
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: California
[ *] School Type: Small, 500 Kids, Honors Based
[ *] Ethnicity: Black
[ *] Gender: Female
[ *] major strength/weakness: Leader/Hotheaded
[ *] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I believe that I showed I would be a good fit to the campus and that I actually want to be there.
[ *] going to attend? More than likely.
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b] Editor In Chief of School Newspaper, I run my own music journalism website.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT:1930 (CR-650 W-650 M-630)
[</em>] SAT IIs:Lit-680 Math I-720 Math II-680
[<em>] ACT: n/a
[</em>] GPA: different system, predicted 40/45 in the IB
[<em>] Rank: top 5%
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Strong, talked about politics in the school and community service in Africa
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Haven’t read, both teachers love me so I hope/presume they were good
[</em>] Counselor Rec:Haven’t read, but a fair reflection I guess.
[<em>] Hook (if any): International (with a US passport though) all 4 years of high
school in London
[</em>] ECs: Theatre, Singing, Choir, Varsity Basketball, Journalist for school newspaper, a lot of community service
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State/Country: London, England
[</em>] School Type: Private IB
[<em>] Ethnicity: Sinagporean/Indian/English
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] major strength/weakness:Weakness are my SATs probably. Strengths- writing and grades
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: International student and accentuated that in my essays.
[li] going to attend? Will consider, depends on other schools as well. Love GW though.[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>IntRelations09 - “…snobby, narrow-minded nerds that apply to GW”</p>
<p>Funny thing is that your comment is the most “narrow-minded” of all. Maybe you will choose another school! </p>
<p>schmohawk- You’re so right!! What is it with people who have to put down a school that they spent money applying to!! Just makes you one look insecure and small. If you were waitlisted or rejected move on, ior try to do something about it instead of trying to find fault in the adm process. f you believe the school is made up of snobs, then you don’t belong at GW! Everyone finds their own “niche”.
Congrats to all who were accepted!!</p>
<p>ItRelations: agree with MsBC, first of all let me correct you since you don’t even know the name of the school: Elliott School of International Affairs
ont Int’l relations, which leads me to think you are not that informed.
Second, narrow-mindedness and GW don’t go together. I think you need to go somewhere else, and I’m sorry GW made a mistake with you in giving you a spot, please release it to someone who wants to go badly, and truly deserves GW.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 730 CR/640 M/700 WR
[</em>] SAT IIs: 760 USH, 690 Lit, 600 WH
[<em>] ACT: n/a
[</em>] GPA: 3.6/4.0 uw
[<em>] Rank: school doesn’t rank, only 73 students in the grade
[</em>] Other stats: APUSH 4, APBio 4
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: my common app essay was good, but I didn’t think my why GWU was spectacular
[</em>] Teacher Recs: school doesn’t let us read them
[<em>] Counselor Rec: ditto but probably good b/c she told me so
[</em>] Hook (if any): passionate about english
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Mass
[</em>] School Type: private catholic
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: female
[<em>] major strength/weakness: my SATs could have been higher. especially math, when i took it again i got a lower score!
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: my interview went well, and my interest in english came out in several parts of my transcript
[li] going to attend? with my trustee scholarship, I’m definitely conisdering it more![/li][/ul]Other Factors:</p>
Teacher Recs: one teacher let me read it and it was a bit disappointing and generic, other teacher’s great
Counselor Rec: great
Hook (if any):
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<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country: FL
School Type: public, magnet, in top 20 public HS according to Newsweek
Ethnicity: hispanic
Gender: female
major strength/weakness: leadership (capt of debate team, NHS secretary)
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: my interview went well, lots of shown interest, overall good grades and challenging classes throughout HS
going to attend? I will know soon once i crunch all the numbers for how I’m going to pay, if i can afford it ill be there! (declined BU’s admission already because its the same cost as GW and if i can put together the money I’m going to spend it at GW)
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<p>Other Factors:1st generation American from Cuba, 1st generation to go to college, lots of EC’s</p>
<p>Stats
SAT: 680 WR; 660 R; 590 M
SAT IIs: 590 in lit; 780 in US History
GPA: 3.5
Rank: School does not rank</p>
<p>Essays: On experience living and working in a homeless shelter for the weekend
Teacher Recs: Two
Counselor Rec: One</p>
<p>State or Country: California
School Type: Catholic, 1200 students
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male</p>
<p>why you think you were accepted: Flew from California to D.C. for an interview, which showed interest. Also, did not apply for financial aid.
going to attend? Not sure. Deciding between GW and SMU. It depends on whether I receive a scholarship.</p>
<p>There was a question in the GW Common App supplement “What other universities are you applying to?” and I decided to be honest and listed all colleges I applied to, which are about 21-3(I don’t remember the exact number).</p>
<p>My stats: SAT 2070, top 10%, great recs, many & various EC’s, community service, work experience, brilliant essays (those who read them the said so; these were my favorite essays) 2150 SAT II…</p>
<p>My question is do you think that the enourmous list of universities I wrote in the supplement could be the reason for my being “wastelisted”?</p>
<p>Could be. GW wants students that want them. With the large number of schools you applied to (I’m reading the above at 21-3 - meaning 21-30?) which they may have figured that they had a very low chance of getting you to enroll. The good news is that you were waitlisted which means they would like you to come if space opens. The ball is now in your court…if GW is your first choice, I would make that very clear in the next month! Good luck.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2100 total 740R 720M 640W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 760 MII 740Lit 690USHis
[<em>] ACT: NA
[</em>] GPA: 4.015W 3.92UnW
[<em>] Rank: 22/772
[</em>] Other stats: AP Lang 4, AP Human Geo 5, AP Stats 5, ACP Calc-A, this year- AP Gov, AP Econ Macro and Micro, AP Bio, AP Psy, AP Lit
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: My general one for all common Apps was pretty Stellar, imo. I focused on my unique background (Iranian/Irish) and how that has given me a unique outlook on the world and so on. This was Pre-obama, tho he sort of stole my thunder. My other essays were fine.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Flattering, tho I dont have anything to compare them too
[<em>] Counselor Rec: General (said a lot of stuff already on my app such as what I am involved in) by it was pretty praiseful and I saw what boxes she checked and they were “One of the besT” for nearly all.
[</em>] Hook (if any): My background and Travels.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: IN
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White (Tho Irish and Iranian)
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] major strength/weakness: Reading/English
[</em>] why you think you were accepted: I’m unique. <em>shrug</em>
[li] going to attend? My state school made me an offer I can’t refuse. IU here I come![/li][/ul]Other Factors:
Tons of activities and leadership (i.e. Captain of Debate, EASB, Model UN, Mock Trial) and also in things like NHS. National Merit Scholar and other awards.</p>
<p>Tho- I never really showed any interest above and beyond applying. I never did an interview or a formal college tour (I went there on my own and sort of hung out). I never really called them or anything or even applied to the honor’s college (the essays were too much work), tho looking at other ppl’s apps I def see a case of Tufts Syndrome.</p>
<p>SAT: 1990
SAT IIs: World History: 750
Biology E: 700
GPA: 3.88 UW
Rank: 20/298</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: Showed interest, talked about my campus. I think it was this to be honest because my statistic are average
Teacher Recs: I think good
Counselor Rec: good</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: BOULDER, COLORADO!
School Type: IB public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: male
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: honestly, not my stats. Must have been recs and essays[/li]going to attend?: YES i think so</p>
<p>SAT: 2290
Sat II: World History 700, Spanish 730, Math Level 2 720
GPA 4.0 UW
Rank: 24/672</p>
<p>Essays: Used small town angle and desire to break out
Teacher Recs: Good, they knew I was passionate re: politics
Counselor Rec: Probably not that good, they’re inexperienced and morons</p>
<p>Location: Lancaster PA
School Type: Large public regional
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Why accepted: Stats pretty good, ECs all involve politics since 8th grade, capt. of tennis team and a lot of travel for some well rounded stuff</p>