GW c/o 2015 Applicants (2011-2012 cycle) Forum

[luxxe]

Sorry to everyone who got dinged today. Sheesh, at this point I'm just praying for a WL.
It certainly seems like they are trying to reduce their class size this year, and that probably isn't a bad thing for GW to do--aren't they notorious for having extremely large classes? If they go from 500 to 300 matriculants, cutting out the bottom 200, they may have the potentintial to increase their medians significantly. But it does suck for those of us that thought having numbers around last years 75th percentile, would give us a good shot at getting in. 75th percentile looks like a crapshoot this year.

It is still super early in the cycle - and there is no way any school could afford to cut 2/5 of their incoming class.

[gdh]

Got the little letter via snail mail today. I didn't know what to think when I saw the size; it felt like a lottery. Thrilled about the acceptance.

[crumpledq]

Applied 10/25, complete 11/4, and haven't heard a peep, despite the vast majority of others with my timeline receiving a response by now. I'm a huge splitter with very strong softs. I guess they are just waiting to see how their applicant pool develops before getting back to me because my numbers are so weird, but I should share my status in case there are others like me out there waiting on GW.

Anyone else complete around 11/4 and still waiting?

[stingray]

Sorry to everyone who got dinged today. Sheesh, at this point I'm just praying for a WL.
It certainly seems like they are trying to reduce their class size this year, and that probably isn't a bad thing for GW to do--aren't they notorious for having extremely large classes? If they go from 500 to 300 matriculants, cutting out the bottom 200, they may have the potentintial to increase their medians significantly. But it does suck for those of us that thought having numbers around last years 75th percentile, would give us a good shot at getting in. 75th percentile looks like a crapshoot this year.

It is still super early in the cycle - and there is no way any school could afford to cut 2/5 of their incoming class.

You're right about it being early in the cycle. And beyond that, we probably can't tell much from LSN and TLS. We are just a small slice of the 9000 applications they receive every year. Still, it is disheartening to see some of these rejections.

[ThreeRivers]

Welll... my mood just turned around (I was the 167/3.5 wondering if I'll just under perform everywhere after GW wouldn't even give me a WL). Just got in Minn today!

Best of luck to all acceptances / still waiting in GW, definitely a great school (even though I was bitter lol)

[fltanglab]

Welll... my mood just turned around (I was the 167/3.5 wondering if I'll just under perform everywhere after GW wouldn't even give me a WL). Just got in Minn today!

Best of luck to all acceptances / still waiting in GW, definitely a great school (even though I was bitter lol)

Congrats!

[unitedfrutopia]

Sucks that we're getting dinged, but I give them credit for reducing class size ITE, if that's what they're doing.

[fltanglab]

Being rejected sucks. I've had that happen 3 times already. But you could easily get accepted somewhere else, so don't lose hope!

Lol thanks and I'm trying

I've been accepted into Washington and Lee / rejected from Texas and now GW

The Texas one really didn't bother me at all because I really expected it / was over it by the time I was done reading the e-mail

The GW really surprised me, and its not the actual rejection that has me upset but fear that something is wrong with my app that I'm not seeing and I'll underperform this cycle lol

I have a 3.44 gpa, but sadly that's with a 0.00 gpa in my freshman year (have gotten all 4.0's since). I obviously wrote an addendum and I was kind of hoping this would be a "good" soft in that my gpa was a 3.9+ if you take away one semester. Maybe schools are instead viewing it as a "this kid has the potential to have that 0.00 again" (even if that was 5 years ago lol)

Yeah I felt the same way about Texas. I have lower GPA than you do, but for very different reasons (pre-med courses) and I'm WLed. But yeah I haven't heard anything from UMN in about two months lol.

[msblaw89]

Not sure if this was already addressed earlier in the thread...but does anyone have any idea when GW sends out merit scholarship info? Is it next year? Or soonish after your acceptance?

[jcdjgd]

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[eemi]

Not sure if this was already addressed earlier in the thread...but does anyone have any idea when GW sends out merit scholarship info? Is it next year? Or soonish after your acceptance?

I was wondering this as well... I got my original letter a couple of weeks ago (snail mail) but haven't heard about scholarships yet. Hoping it's soon!

[msblaw89]

Not sure if this was already addressed earlier in the thread...but does anyone have any idea when GW sends out merit scholarship info? Is it next year? Or soonish after your acceptance?

I was wondering this as well... I got my original letter a couple of weeks ago (snail mail) but haven't heard about scholarships yet. Hoping it's soon!

I got a Christmas card about 2 weeks after my first acceptance letter, which was nice, but I want my scholarship offer!

[Zelda]

Not sure if this was already addressed earlier in the thread...but does anyone have any idea when GW sends out merit scholarship info? Is it next year? Or soonish after your acceptance?

I was wondering this as well... I got my original letter a couple of weeks ago (snail mail) but haven't heard about scholarships yet. Hoping it's soon!

I got a Christmas card about 2 weeks after my first acceptance letter, which was nice, but I want my scholarship offer!

+1

[ucbkenn]

Apparently GW isn't giving much love to splitters this year. I really hope my December LSAT increases by at least a point, or else my anticipated W/L -> Acceptance becomes an auto-ding.

Don't give up hope. I got accepted awhile back with a 3.27 and a 172.

[emkay625]

In via snail mail 12/7/11. 173/3.23.

[Futuristic]

In via snail mail on 12/09. App sent early November.
URM below medians

[AmandaPB]

I hate you GW, I’m considering withdrawing before you can ruin my cycle’s momentum with a WL or reject. HA!

[msblaw89]

I hate you GW, I’m considering withdrawing before you can ruin my cycle’s momentum with a WL or reject. HA!

laughed out loud

[luxxe]

I hate you GW, I’m considering withdrawing before you can ruin my cycle’s momentum with a WL or reject. HA!

I'm feeling the same wayyy. People that have applied later than me with much lower numbers have been accepted already (which I am SUPER SUPER happy about for y'all, just feeling neglected).

[AmandaPB]

I hate you GW, I’m considering withdrawing before you can ruin my cycle’s momentum with a WL or reject. HA!

laughed out loud

Thank you for typing that instead of saying “lol.” I’m serious, I hate those three letters.

[AmandaPB]

I hate you GW, I’m considering withdrawing before you can ruin my cycle’s momentum with a WL or reject. HA!

I'm feeling the same wayyy. People that have applied later than me with much lower numbers have been accepted already (which I am SUPER SUPER happy about for y'all, just feeling neglected).

Haha, same. I am definitely happy for the people getting! But GW, why haven’t you accepted us?!

[Samara]

I hate you GW, I’m considering withdrawing before you can ruin my cycle’s momentum with a WL or reject. HA!

Uhhhh, you're already in at Berkeley. Might as well withdraw.

[tennisking88]

I hate you GW, I’m considering withdrawing before you can ruin my cycle’s momentum with a WL or reject. HA!

Uhhhh, you're already in at Berkeley. Might as well withdraw.

+100000

[AmandaPB]

I hate you GW, I’m considering withdrawing before you can ruin my cycle’s momentum with a WL or reject. HA!

Uhhhh, you're already in at Berkeley. Might as well withdraw.

+100000

Probably will soon, don’t worry people.

[so_fetch]

In via mail... I got the letter yesterday but I was away for the weekend so it could have come as early as Thursday. Im in california & I submitted the first week in November. good luck to others!!