What happened is a fairly well-known socio economic bias: lower income or first gen kids, as well as kids from rural areas, underestimate themselves academically. Tjey know their school wasn’t as competitive as that of top achievers admitted to their college. They may not think in terms of capability and not realized sustained, hard work will serve them well. They may have imposter syndrome and don’t think their capabilities are as good as other, more privileged peers (who may take some things, like college, for granted).
You proved them wrong. At AU, a 4.0 probably places you at the very top of your class (a 3.8 places you at the top of your class).
At this point, with such a GPA, you’d be able to transfer to Georgetown and, if admittted, pay less, because they meet need.
Btw Im serious about transferring to G’Town if push comes to shove bc the school is well known in many fields and it may be less expensive for you.
Plus, if you bring that sad fact up (sad bc you don’t want to transfer, bc you like AU and wouldn’t even think of transferring if FA had kept up), it may make sense for AU to try and keep you.
Are you in SIS?
Meet with the Dean and email professors in case your Dept has funds for top students-they tend to go to juniors and seniors but sometimes rising sophomores can be eligible