<p>i was at georgetown for mun and my chair got into sfs with a c average...although she also joined the circus in hs AND started a global political consulting firm :/</p>
<p>so basically i think that gpa isn't everything IF you have amazing extracurrics..</p>
<p>and yeah, all the gtown students i talked to say that anything giving you a "cultural/international perspective" is uber good.</p>
<p>I think relationship between Georgetown and the high school is very important (as well as what type of school it is). Five of us applied EA (three of us for in all the ranges, great gpa, ec's, etc.) but all got deferred. My public school usually sends several students to great schools (both LAC and ivies), but we haven't had anyone in this range apply from our school to georgetown in years. I think the lack of a relationship hurt us, as well as Gtown taking lots of students from an area Jesuit school. We'll see in the RD round how much this relationship plays a factor.</p>
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I agree with bulldogbull because I got in EA and didn't have high SATs (1860), but I did have a high GPA and took 2 languages to the AP level at my school. I think that's what got me in.
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Do you have any idea how happy you have made me?</p>
<p>Sib you sound like me in so many different ways.</p>
<p>G.P.A.- 2.9/3.5 (yup right there with you)
SAT practices: Will get results on tomorrow.
Nationality: Liberian....however I was in American and lost my Liberian citizenship because they have don't allow dual-citizenship. African-American.</p>
<p>Resume: Attended Brown Summer High School. Going to Brown this school year to get a feel for the college environment and be lectured by one of their professors(don't know what this is called yet...not officially set in stone). Varsity Football Player. Member of the Brotherhood at school. Attended Providence Summerbridge and plan to volunteer this summer. Going to the Congressional Student Leadership Conference this summer. Most likely Mock Trial and School Newspaper will be added to this list. I could also probably toss in the volunteer work I have done through church. </p>
<p>Reasons for low GPA:</p>
<p>All throughout junior high I was a certain type of individual who was smart and acknowledged by teachers and had many friends, but was never really close to anyone or in that certain "crowd". I spent much of freshman year dealing with a bunch of new teachers to my high school whose methods I didn't agree with and trying to break away from who I was depicted to be. I was sick of being the "golden child" in the family expected to do no wrong and guaranteed to go to an Ivy-league school. Add in the loss of my grandfather and the rough time my family was going through financially and I just wanted to escape it all. I lost my thrist for learning. As a sophomore, I recovered and through advice from a guy at church and oddly enough hip hop music(I can write an entire essay on this right here), I understood my responsibility to my family and myself and finally embraced it(wanted to make sure I situated well financially so my mom wouldn't have to work so hard anymore pretty much)....still I was jealous of the freedoom my cousins have. I learned to balance out having fun and being one "the guys", dating, working, etc. while still being the student and person I wanted to be to an extent. </p>
<p>This year I've gotten even closer to being able to be who I am without feeling like I'll be looked at awkard. My friends used to call me "a geek on the low", now it's pretty common knowledge about it being part of my personality. I have gained incredible focus and grown each year....still I want more from the curriculum because I feel my history classes only tell half the story(I have a couple of good teachers though). Still it's been hard to over come that Freshman year 78 averave. Sophmore year was an 88 and this year I
m swirling around a 89-90(I hate math......yet I took an honors class.....good move).</p>
<p>I'm interested in Georgetown because my dad is very politically active in Liberian politics and I see how much there needs to be new life in that country. Hopefully they'll repeal the law that prohibits dual-citizenship because I feel for my demographic over here, but want to me able to make a change across the Atlantic too. They have a bunch of people with degrees who don't know anything....or have any vision. (Got too long with this)</p>