Advice/Chance for a Junior

SeattleLove13
Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:08:54 +0000

Hello, I’m a current junior and GW is my absolute favorite school! I loved the campus as soon as I visited. From browsing this website, it seems like interest and essays and ECs are just as important and maybe more important than just GPA and test scores. I took the SAT earlier and get my scores thursday, but im estimating between a 1700-1800. I can always retake it in the fall since i know the average is around 1900. My gpa is a 3.6 so far. I come from a very competitive private school in Seattle and admissions counselors from many Pacific Northwest area schools are familiar with how difficult our school is. I am involved in a political organization, Junior State of America and have had several leadership positions on cabinet and I’m VP of my schools chapter, NHS member, JV and Varsity track 9th/10th grade, Psychology club member, and will have completed 100+service hours (its required at my school). I will be taking 2 AP exams this May and have signed up for AP Spanish, AP US History and AP English for senior year and have taken almost all the honors classes available (except im in regular chem and math this year, but have always taken honors english and honors math 9th/10th grade) I’m sure my recommendation letters will be fine and I plan to express tons of interest in my essay, especially how the school has a minor in LGBT/Sexuality studies, something I would be very interested in studying. I will probably have to apply RD since the school is so expensive. I have expressed tons of interest so far by touring the campus and attending an info session, meeting with a rep when he came to my school last fall and plan to do so again this fall. There is no junior info session at a hotel or anything in seattle this spring, but if there is, I would definitely attend. Any tips on how to boost my application/things you wish you had known? I know I’m probably way ahead of where I should be as far as thinking about colleges, but I love GW! Thanks! Sorry for such a long post!