<p>My stats are definitely on the upper end of those admitted, but I know that there are a lot of students applying from my high school - many with higher stats/rank and awesome ECs. My councilor claims that on my own I'd be competitive, but there are just too many from my school. Does anyone know how heavily GW weights "geographic diversity" and if they have an aversion to too many students from the same school? Thanks!</p>
<p>What region are you from? Has your school historically sent many students (from one year) to GW? How do you compare to those who are applying? Are you going to apply ED II?</p>
<p>GC, I hope you don’t mind, but I looked and saw you had a few early deferrals. The best advice I can give you for GW is to act interested. Visit, get in touch w/ your local admissions person, write a "why GW " essay that shows that you like the school, not that you like DC.</p>
<p>They take a lot of kids from my Northeast HS every year, but most of them are ED 1 or 2. Their admissions are harder to predict during RD, but the kiss of death seems to be that they know when applicants are using them as a safety.</p>
<p>I’m from a pretty good midwestern magnet. We generally send two or three from my school, but I don’t know how many are accepted and choose not to attend. My GPA is a 3.93 UW, 4.36 W, and I’m an IB student with 30-31 ACT, depending on whether or not you superscore. I don’t think anyone else applying there from my school has considerably higher scores, but they have other things going for them like being class president, multilingual, or a nationally recognized figure skater. Plus, most of them are ranked higher than me; as is, I’m one person out of the top decile, although I think it’ll go up on my midyear report. I thought I had good ECs, but EA decisions have convinced me otherwise. I’ve decided not to do ED-II to anywhere in the small hope that one of my earlier deferrals turns into an acceptance in RD.</p>
<p>Here’s a question for anybody who might know the answer: on the supplement, GW asks what other schools you are applying to. Do they check? I’m throwing my applications everywhere in the hope that something will stick, and I’m afraid that having eleven schools listed will make it seem like GW is a safety, despite the fact that it’s not. I have a good “Why GW” essay, but will it matter when they see that I also have applications being cycled at Georgetown, UChicago, and Brown?</p>
<p>golden, I listed all of them and I was accepted either way. The other schools included Brandeis, Columbia. Georgetown and Northwestern as well as American and Maryland, so I am not quite sure if it matters or not. I guess at leat for GW it didn’t</p>
<p>People were really paranoid about this during last year’s decisions. People who figured they were in for sure were waitlisted and outright rejected, and they blamed it on the fact that they put down Ivies, etc. on their app. Who knows? If it were me, I might put one of those schools, and a few peer/safety schools. GW says they use this for their own info- to see where else their applicants apply. They won’t check.</p>