chance a worried Californian

Colleges and Universities A-Z Georgetown University
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<p>I am a junior from California, reasonably competative high school; probably top 4%, no rank</p>

<p>GPA: around 4.6 weighted (using only 10th/11th, tell me if they do 9th too), 4.0 or 3.98, unweighted, depending on if 9th is used</p>

<p>APs: 10-AP Euro; 11-AP US, AP Lang, AP Chem; 12-AP Physics, AP Calc AB, AP Comp Gov, AP Music Theory; is all this enough, especially since most of them are senior (due to misinformation by school administration....)?</p>

<p>SAT: 2150, will retake, with hopefully a 200-250 point increase (really stupid mistakes)</p>

<p>SAT IIs: 770 math, 790 chem, 800 us</p>

<p>ECs: -section leader in school band
-coprincipal oboist in major youth orchestra, play English Horn as well
-Part of 2 county honor bands
-jv/varsity track for two years
-3 years of robotics (including FIRST events)
-Cofounder of Dissenters Club, club at school to discuss and extoll virtues of political dissent/debate (3 years in a really convoluted way)
-NASA online community, a selective program where NASA experts teach and lecture online to admitted students (2 years)
-CSF (5 semesters)
-May get a job fall of senior year, though not guarenteed</p>

<p>Leadership: -Founded private charity and website to raise concern for humanitarian and social issues
-As mentioned, bunch of leadership for oboe (instrument)
-Again, cofounder of Dissenters Club
-Probably will start another club begining of senior year</p>

<p>Community Sercive: -400+ hours peer tutoring
-100 hours volunteering at local thrift shop to provide affordable mechandise to the underprivileged (profits </p>

<p>Other- Some other random things such as a few music and academic awards and that I translated a book from my native language into English.</p>

<p>I know compared to all of the people who have internships, intel awards, etc, my stats are nothing too special, but there have been certain familiy obligations that have prevented me from entering too many contests, etc...a summer internship or job would have been impossible....Additionally, my current ECs do in fact take up almost all of my free time. </p>

<p>Georgetown is probably one of my upper choices, so I was wondering if it would be reasonable to keep it there; or is it a complete reach? Also, will race affect/hurt me?; I am East Indian ethnically.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>anyone want to give input?</p>

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<p>everything looks strong</p>

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<p>Write a great essay about your family obligations and how you learned as much from not shirking them as you would have at any internship. Take the SAT again. Your SAT IIs are fine. Don’t start a new club your senior year just for the sake of starting a new club. If it is not meaningful, it will look opportunistic.</p>

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<p>You have a very strong record and you look like you are definitely on the right track. The interview process can also heavily weigh in your favor to present yourself in person. It seems as though Georgetown likes to see community service and I’m sure that will help during the interview. As far as ethnicity goes I believe that it will also help because judging by the ethnicity statistics they would hope for more cultural and ethnic diversity. I agree with glido. Just focus on things you are already passionate about.</p>