Newspaper the hatchet is now reporting that up to 10% of gw s roughly 22,000 applicants each year are wait listed not because they don t have the grades but because they can t afford to pay gw s tuition which is about $47,000 a year. so what happens to the wait listed applicants? the vast majority get rejection letters and their spots go to wealthier students. we reached out to the university for comment and were directed to this statement from the school s new senior associate provost. quote, i believe using the phrase need aware better represents the totality of our practices than the phrase need blind. nice scoop, hatchet staff. coming up in the pop culture lead, it s launched music careers and brought us this epic rap battle between barack obama and mitt romney, but now youtube is getting in the award game. we ll look at the nominees, next.