<p>I am contemplating whether or not I should apply for it. It says that only twenty people get in a year and you live in the special house … does that mean there are ONLY 20 people in the house!!! what are the perks, if any, and are there many cons to living in Shaw Leadership House. In addition, is it connected to main campus?</p>
<p>Has anyone had any first hand experience?!?</p>
<p>Shaw House is located right on Upper Campus along with the freshman, if you're worried.</p>
<p>I'm currently living in Shaw House (Garage Room). </p>
<p>Pros:
- You'll get really close to your housemates (20 students, 1 RA, 1 RD, so 22 total).
-You'll get a kitchen to cook food (the envy of upper-campus).
-You'll meet amazingly talented student leaders.
-You'll meet top professors, adminstrators and speakers during weekly meeting; it's great way to build network. (The President of BC dropped by the house last month for a visit)
-Automatic head start on your application toward any other programs at BC (due to the respectability of the Shaw Program). Shaw house members are known to get RA position their sophomore year (very rare for sophomore) and entrance into other leadership programs.</p>
<p>Cons:
- Only one double in the house (for two girls). 2 triples, and 3 quad. So you will have alot of roomates (noise control).
- The Shaw Bubble. People believed that Shaw House is secluded because we're so close as a house and not interact with other. Well that's just a rumor. Shaw members had become mover and shaker of BC.</p>
<p>reddune, thanks a lot for all that info! is there any way i can get your aim or email to talk some more about it? </p>
<p>=)</p>
<p>thanks again.</p>
<p>me too, i'm also applying!!!</p>
<p>~Alexi</p>
<p>how competitive is it to get in??</p>
<p>when is the shaw application due? 5/1 or can it be sent in later?</p>
<p>i think it's july first</p>
<p>if you end up getting in, can you party like everyone else, or are you supposed to be a good role model? ;)</p>
<p>I currently live on upper campus and I gotta tell you guys, Shaw kids are totally ostracized. Everyone thinks they're weird, and NO ONE outside of Shaw knows anyone inside. Apologies to any Shaw kids, but that's totally the way it is. Both sides are to blame because no one makes an effort to interact. I'd reccomend against it, unless you really want the leadership program thing on your resume. Otherwise, you'll have a far superior freshman year in a regular dorm.</p>
<p>Completely Ostracized?!?</p>
<p>You got to be kidding me! When was the last time you "make" an effort to know us? Reveilleforet never actually make friend with any of us in Shaw House, so I doubt he/she know what we look like to recognize us in clubs meeting. What this individual say is completely baseless. </p>
<p>Accomplishment (within the current classes from 2005-2009)
Let just take a look at what Shaw House Members did on Campus:
- Shaw House Members has been Presidents of UGBC or Leading Candidate. Also Chief of Staff and Various other important posts.
- Several has been Fullbright Scholars.
- Several have been Presidents of Students Organizations (i.e AHANA Leadership Council)
- UGBC and AHANA are full of Shaw House Members, just ask those in the leadership positions about who are the Shaw House Members and they'll point them out to you if they themselves aren't one.
- Severals are the currrent Editors of "The Height" the student's newspaper.
- They're PhD candidates at several prestigious schools (i.e. Northwestern)
- They CREATED hit show "the BC" (two seniors).
- They racked in Advance Study Grants (one is student is going to Bulgaria to Film Documentary while another is going to Washington D.C.)
- A great deal of the RA in Upper Campus and Newton (where freshman are) is Shaw Members.
- They created students organizations and host events left and right (i.e. founder Students for Informed for Democracy is Shaw Member. The "24 Hours Theater Experiment" is founded by a current member.)
- Shaw Members get more OL (Oreintation Leader) more than any other group. </p>
<p>So please fact check your info on people making such a unbelievable stereotype. Perhaps you don't know what Shaw people do because you're stuck in your room while we doing what we do best, trying to make a different.</p>
<p>No ONE outside knows anyone inside? I still can't believe that person actually wrote that! There are 80 of us total in BC (20 per class). But let just talk about the class of 2009 (because that the class me and Reve are from). By saying No one know us, do you mean no one "you know" who know us? Because I don't believe that we are socially inept to be so isolated from the Community. We applied to this Leadership program to get to know BC and to make a different, not hide in our house. Through our close knit house, we get to know each other really well and became close friends, but that doens't mean we sit back and relax. The students who apply to Shaw aren't slacker. Furthermore, there are 20 of us but there are 8000 undergraduate students at BC, are we suppose to know them all to qualify for your definition as "knowing anyone outside"? We don't advertize so blantantly that we're Shaw members wherever we go, because that would be call prideful and annoying. Then you would probably come here and condemned us as "a bunch of hubris idiots who wouldn't shup up about themselves."</p>
<p>P.S. "you'll have a far superior freshman year in a regular dorm."
What make you qualify to judge what sort of experience we had our freshman year? If you had a great freshman year then congratulation, but how can you judge that your experience was better than our? We as a house had done many activities together, but we all have our own interest and pursuits. I had met some amazingly talented and motivated students from Shaw House. Some are dancers (Irish river dance and hip-hop) some are actors, a few are rugby players, fencer, writer, musicians, tv hosts, hunter, etc...If you guys believe that meeting, interacting and living with this kind of people as a waste of your freshman year then by all mean don't apply. But if you're motivated and wants to make a different, please send in your application.</p>
<p>If you guys think I'm too passionate about this, then you guys are right. Shaw changed my outlook and approach to leadership. I'm angry at people who have absolutely no idea what we're about and recommending to you guys a point of view that this person obviously never experience. If they were a former Shaw House member who went through it and hate it completely then I'm wrong in my attack. But please don't put two cents into what other telling you when they themselves have no idea what it is about.</p>
<p>question... if you apply and get in, is that binding? Do you have to join if accepted?</p>
<p>You do not have to join if you're accepted, but if you choose not to you must reply immediately. Because the RA of Shaw will put you as a residence of Shaw once you're in which pull you out of the other residence slot. If you drop out of Shaw you will be place back into the common housing pool, and with being so late in the housing process, you might get Newton housing if you decline acceptance (if you've prefer living in Upper). So think clearly before you make your decision.</p>
<p>Reddune, I greatly appreciate the passion that you have put into your posts. You clearly show a profound love for Shaw House and portray the house as an excellent opportunity for all. You have made me want to get into Shaw even more now and I am geuninely thrilled and can't wait to see what happens when the housing decisions come out. =)</p>
<p>Thank you very much.</p>
<p>Hey Reddune
Is the room above what used to be the garage a double? How about the room across the hall at top of stairs?</p>
<p>The room above the garage is the RA room, the second of two single (both occupy by RA and RD), the second one you mentioned is the RD's room. The Garage is actually the room Garage (hence the name).</p>
<p>i applied for Shaw and was wondering when we get the replies? i sent mine a month ago so they probably have it by now. </p>
<p>should i send an update page on new stuff i have won/accomplished etc...? or should i leave it as is.</p>