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04-08-2008, 01:48 PM
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#31 | | New Member
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| Age- 36
3.87 GPA at my local community college.
vice president of leadership - Phi Theta Kappa
I took the GSAE so I don't have any SAT/ACT scores. | 
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04-08-2008, 02:19 PM
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#32 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Threads: 11
Posts: 134
| In addition to stats; what type of work experience did those who applied have? | |
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04-08-2008, 02:28 PM
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#33 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Posts: 103
| i've been working pretty much full time since i was 17. i am only 21 now, but i had taken a gap year between high school and college (thus making my application to columbia eligible for GS only). i work full time and attend school full time. my mom is disabled so i am working to put myself through school. | |
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04-08-2008, 04:00 PM
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#34 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: San Francisco Gender: Male
Threads: 6
Posts: 112
| I have such an embarrassing employment history I can't bare to post it. Suffice it to say, whatever work experience you have, any of you, it's more impressive than mine. I'm looking at you, Denny's night shift managers. (I'm not kidding). | |
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04-08-2008, 06:44 PM
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#35 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
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| I have another question for everyone: How many credits have you completed/will you have completed by Fall 2008? | |
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04-08-2008, 10:01 PM
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#36 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: San Francisco Gender: Male
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| Around 70 units. I suppose it depends on how many they're willing to take. | |
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04-08-2008, 11:04 PM
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#37 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
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| Well, here are my stats since Aneece and Columbiagirl have been so nice to disclose theirs.
Age: 25
Major: Econ
GPA: 4.0 California Community College
HS GPA: 2.5 WEIGHTED. How embaressing
SAT -560 ENG + 640 MATH = 1200 (taken exactly eight years ago so they are still valid although not very good scores. I probably should have retaken).
EC,etc: Military/Iraqi Vet, College campus newspaper editor, Dean's list
Will have completed 70 semester units by the end of this spring & AA in General/Lib.Arts and Business. I finished these units in one year, taking 20 credits in Summer 07, 25 in Fall 07, and currently taking 25.
I also wrote an addendum to explain the h.s. transcript... | |
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04-09-2008, 03:26 AM
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#38 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Threads: 11
Posts: 134
| Yikes, I will be applying this spring with only 19 units completed at a California Community College. I understand these units may be different from other units, but 19 compared to 70 is very small. I hope that will not hurt my chances. | |
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04-09-2008, 11:50 AM
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#39 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
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| to those of you who got the acceptance call, have you gotten anything in the mail yet? | |
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04-09-2008, 02:51 PM
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#40 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
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| Nothing in the mail yet. I was told to expect a FedEx by the week's end. | |
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04-10-2008, 05:47 PM
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#41 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: San Francisco Gender: Male
Threads: 6
Posts: 112
| No one else, huh? It's getting lonely. To the newly admitted, current, and former students, is there any insight you can offer on financial aid at GS? Do they send an initial offer with one's admissions packet? I am dying to know if I can afford to attend. I've dug around on this site and elsewhere, but I'm still not clear on what to expect, (or perhaps I just don't like what I've read so far). | |
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04-10-2008, 09:18 PM
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#42 | | Junior Member
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| nothing yet, nothing yet. | |
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04-10-2008, 10:55 PM
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#43 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Threads: 5
Posts: 87
| Aneece,
I know it's not what you want to hear, but FinAid is really bad. Read my previous posts, they'll tell you how much you should expect. Actually, might get a little more now (about 1k per year) than the figures I provided back then.
I met with the head of financial aid at GS and he suggested I 'go to school part time for a few years and then take out private loans (30k+) during the last year if I wanted to finish in a timely manner with 'little' debt.' Yeah, like I have 7 years to burn getting a BA.
If you're banking on GS aid and are an out of state student (ie, without a job or cheap place to stay), you WILL have to take out private loans, in addition to federal ones, if you want to study full-time. | |
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04-14-2008, 03:07 PM
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#44 | | New Member
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| My FedEx arrived today! Anyone else? | |
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04-14-2008, 04:57 PM
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#45 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
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| THEY CALLED ME THIS AFTERNOON!!!!!! I'm in too! I feel such a high.... | |
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