<p>Hey does anyone know if its true that the SIS has the same admissions process as any other major in the school(instead of applying to a specific school in American your applying to the general AU) So basically, the stats for admission is the same for any major.</p>
<p>Did anyones Son/Daughter get into AU with a gpa between 2.95-3.1 Unweighted with high SAT scores and good Extra Curr. Activites?</p>
<p>Did you all see this study?
I can’t believe that the adminsitrators at AU don’t do something about the fact that our students have to walk from dorm to class to lunch to class to dinner to dorm. We pay a lot in tuition ans should expect better! Am I right?</p>
<p>Last year, researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, published a study titled “Shod Versus Unshod: The Emergence of Forefoot Pathology in Modern Humans?” in the podiatry journal The Foot. The study examined 180 modern humans from three different population groups (Sotho, Zulu, and European), comparing their feet to one another’s, as well as to the feet of 2,000-year-old skeletons. The researchers concluded that, prior to the invention of shoes, people had healthier feet. Among the modern subjects, the Zulu population, which often goes barefoot, had the healthiest feet while the Europeans—i.e., the habitual shoe-wearers—had the unhealthiest. One of the lead researchers, Dr. Bernhard Zipfel, when commenting on his findings, lamented that the American Podiatric Medical Association does not “actively encourage outdoor barefoot walking for healthy individuals. This flies in the face of the increasing scientific evidence, including our study, that most of the commercially available footwear is not good for the feet.”</p>
<p>Kingsta,</p>
<p>I can assure you that at AU you apply to the school as a whole, not to the individual colleges within, even though the application form asks for you to select a college/major. I think that it is more for AUs planning purposes for required classes of new freshmen than anything else.</p>
<p>Actually, this is an excellent question for you to discuss with your regional admissions person from AU–why don’t you check the admissions website to see who that is, and email him/her. If you feel that your application is a bit marginal because of your grades, it could only help to establish a personal relationship. Definitely interview if you get the chance…my son set up a private interview for when the admissions rep was working at a college fair in our area; he met him in the lobby of the hotel and they talked for an hour or so.</p>
<p>As far as your chances, I really don’t know. My S had between a 3.4-3.5 unweighted (weak first year) but strong scores and 8 APs. I checked our high school’s Naviance for you but there were no entries with data points that reflected your situation at all. Sorry.</p>
<p>Thank you so much boysx3!</p>
<p>i guess ill just ask them that in the Interview i’m taking in 2 weeks. and i got more stats then those that i put up but i just wanted to sum up the basics. </p>
<p>Can anybody please help and chance me? i’m applying in a month for ED and i am REALLY nervous! i had a very strong upward curve in my GPA.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/american-university/787658-how-competitive-sis-can-my-stats-get-me.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/american-university/787658-how-competitive-sis-can-my-stats-get-me.html</a></p>
<p>Spktruth, and others—If you have been following this thread for awhile, (if you haven’t been, then you should), then you’ll soon come to realize that the posts from CadiumR are so ridiculously absurd that there is a substantial reason to question that she is even who she proposes herself to be. Most of us try our best to ignore her ridiculous and/or inflammatory posts in the attempt to discourage her from inciting responses and hijacking this thread to meet her own self-centered, self-absorbed, helicopter neediness.</p>
<p>Spktruth-- also wondering-- Are you an AU parent?</p>
<p>Does anyone know if the the bill for going from a triple to a double is pro-rated? In other words, are we just charged for a triple up until the time the student is changed to a double?
Happy Sukkot to those that it applies.</p>
<p>My son sometimes checks this thread just because it makes him laugh…he finds most things his parental units do or think laughable. Anyway, today he forwarded to me something all AU students probably recieved today in their university email.</p>
<p>For those parents who are worried about such things, there will be heat in the dormitories this winter. No information on what temperature the thermostat will be set to and I am sure that my son will not care–he likes to sleep next to an open window year round, and this is an item for him and his roomie to work out.</p>
<p>In addition, any AU student who so desires can move out of the dorms at the end of the semester without incurring a cancellation penalty. So, for all those who are unhappy living in the dorms and / or don’t have good roommates, it’s your choice. </p>
<p>Unfortunately the major issue of carcinogens from street maintenance was not addressed. Nor was the issue of providing extra-safe magic carpets for our students to use for transport between dorm, meals, classes and library addressed. Does anyone want to assume the responsibility of calling President Kerwin on his failure to address these major issues impacting our students health, welfare, and education?</p>
<p>Hi parents,</p>
<p>I was wondering if you could offer me some advice based on your own experience or others’ you know. Basically, I have taken over 4 years of French (I began in 7th grade and am currently taking AP French), I always take honors, and have received at least an A, B, or B+ in the class since freshmen year. As I mentioned before, I am taking AP French, and unfortunately my grade is not as high as it should be. There is a chance it may drop down to a C or C+ when AU receives my mid-term grades/progress report since I am applying ED. Since, I have met AU’s foreign language requirements, would a possible drop in my French grade affect my chances for admissions, especially if there have been circumstances in my life and I know that I can get it up to at least a B- before the term is over? I’m worried that if I don’t have a good grade in AP French, it will totally affect my chances for AU. How important are mid-term grades (my school is on a trimester schedule, so it would be 1st trimester progress reports) in the eyes of AU?</p>
<p>I believe, (and someone will correct me if I’m wrong), that AU will primarily consider your grades up to the end of the junior year when making an ED admission decision. Many applicants don’t have additional grades available in 12th grade until mid-year. I would apply now, before your trimester grades are available and let them make their decision on your grades up to the end of 11th grade.
I’m sure that a C or C+ in one AP course wouldn’t effect their decision if your other grade are good.</p>
<p>@hello 5 - Thanks for your response! I appreciate it. 
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<p>I hope so! I improved the most in my junior year and took the hardest classes last year. Surprisingly, I was able to survive them and did pretty well. My other grades for this trimester so far are very good (I am taking two other honors courses, right now), so I’m not too worried about those, but I am a little worried about French.</p>
<p>Sushi,
Hello5 has given you good advice…get that application in now and your quarter-grade in French won’t matter. The decision on your ED application will be made before semester grades are available. If I remember correctly, my son did not have to send AU another transcript until graduation (he also was admitted ED).</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Cadmiumred,
Are you aware that AU is permitting students to move out of the dorms at the end of the semester without penalty for cancelling their housing contracts?</p>
<p>Just wondering if any veterans of Parents Weekend can offer an opinion about the schedule of events. They all sound fine on paper, but I suspect some may be less than meets the eye. The Friday night welcome reception and the President’s Welcome on Saturday sound pretty snoozy, for example. Also wondering if the food at the family picnic on Saturday and Sparkling Cider Sunday brunch ($25 pp!) will be decent, or if we should just decamp to DC’s many other offerings. Right now, the AU Neighborhood Bus Tour, Historical Walking Tour of Campus and the production of The Wild Party seem the most appealing offerings. Anything that’s not-to-be-missed or avoided-at-all-costs?</p>
<p>@ boysx3,</p>
<p>will they get to know your course selection?
i am taking REALLY competitive courses for my senior year now. </p>
<p>IB 20th Century Europe HL
IB Psychology HL
IB English HL
IB Spanish 12 HL
IB Chem SL
Probability and Statistics- St. Johns College Advantage Program
Religion through Art and Film</p>
<p>If anyone know IB, you would know that the usual requirement is 3 HL’s and 3 SL’s but im taking 4 HL’s, 1 SL and one college class that can be considered as a HL course.</p>
<p>On your application, Common and otherwise, there is a listing for the courses you are currently taking.</p>
<p>Kingsta,</p>
<p>You might also have your GC address the impressive difficulty of your senior year courseload in her letter that is included in your application packet. She can also comment on how you have kicked into a higher academic gear since the beginning of high school, and how since junior year you have really taken your academics seriously.</p>
<p>hello,</p>
<p>I have followed trial and tribulation of this thread. quite entertaining ;)</p>
<p>S2 is a junior in HS. He is a die hard ROTC hopeful. The Army RTOC battalion serving GWU and AU is the ROTC version of Harvard. Combine that with his ambition for a public sector career down the road (after some years in the military), you can imagine why GWU and AU are his top two choices. (GT is another good one, served by the same battalion, but I believe it is out of reach for him).</p>
<p>Since he knows what he wants, it’s never too early to start preparing so that he has maximum odds of making it to either GWU or AU, right? :)</p>
<p>He wants to study either poli sci or IR. </p>
<p>A question for wise parents here. </p>
<p>How important is it for him to have four years of language. He has been taking German in HS since the 9th grade (currently 11th). Not enough kids are taking German, and next year, they may just combine it with the jr class: which means, though it may look on the transcript like he took four years of language, in reality it will be a waste of time. Instead, he would rather take another AP. </p>
<p>Your kids went through all this. How important is it for him to have 4 years of language on his transcript for admission consideration? I see on their web site: languages 3 years required, 4 years recommended, etc. I have learned to interpret the “recommended” as the “required” for selective colleges.</p>
<p>Given how similar/comparable these two schools are in terms of the students they draw, if you have experience with/input on GWU in addition to AU, I would very much appreciate you sharing that with me also.</p>
<p>I thank you in advance for sharing and input with this clueless parent!!!</p>
<p>I don’t think the fourth year of language would be make-or-break on an application to either school, especially if there is some other class he would rather take–the GC could address this matter in her letter to obviate any problems. Or would he want to take the fourth year for an easy A? and more time to spend on other subjects?</p>
<p>I think that most students at AU still have a foreign language requirement once they are on campus and I am not informed as to whether they can test out of the requirement as they can in other curricular areas. My S did 6 years of Latin (best teacher in the high school) and is now taking Spanish.</p>
<p>As far as differences between the two schools, I think that academically they are on par with one another but that the “feel” of the two schools are very different. My son wanted a more "traditional " college experience…studying and throwing a frisbee on the quad, watching Sunday football in the floor lounge in the dorm, living and learning in a “bubble”. AU offered this atmosphere, and GW didn’t. (I understand that GW now houses a lot of freshman on the second campus…perhaps a little bit more of the traditional bubble feel, but S talks to friends there who complain about having to go back and forth between the two campuses for classes and activities. The second campus also hurts the old claim the GW had “better” access to internships because of its location.) As far as opportunities are concerned, I think they are equal for students at all of the DC schools. The Metro makes it very easy to get around town.</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about ROTC on any of the campuses but maybe your son could speak to ROTC participants on each of the campuses he is interested in to get their opinions on the attributes that are most important to him.</p>
<p>Well over half of GW’s student body majors in the liberal arts, and there is also an undergraduate engineering program. There is much more in the way of sciences. About 2/3rd of AU’s student body majors in International Service, Business, Communications, and Public Affairs. Liberal arts majors (including those in the sciences) are a distinct minority.These are not really very similar schools, and if they weren’t both in the same city, not many folks would compare them. </p>
<p>(My personal opinion is that the advising at AU is much, much stronger.)</p>