Chance Me for Georgetown EA

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Demographics
US citizen (California resident)
public school (underprivileged school, low rate of students pursuing higher ed)
female/white

Major: Culture and Politics (School of Foreign Service)
4.52 UW GPA, 4.0 W, Rank: 1 out of 604, SAT: 760 writing, 640 math

11 APs, 6 Honors classes, reached AP Spanish
AP Scores: 4’s on Bio, Psych, and Spanish, 5’s on APUSH and AP Lang

High School Heisman Award State Finalist
2x First-Team All-League for field hockey
2x field hockey team MVP
5x school Scholar Athlete award winner
Community Service Award (400+ hours)
DNC Youth Debate Winner in 2020

California Youth and Government: elected Youth Chief Justice by 4,000+ peers (Tier 1 leadership) and first freshman appointed to Supreme Court in 70+ years of program history

Conference on National Affairs: highly selective national Youth and Government Conference, appointed to California delegation sophomore and junior year, winner of Distinguished Delegate award

3 years of Varisty field hockey and 2 years of Varsity lacrosse

field hockey captain junior and senior year

New Voters Intern: national youth-led nonprofit dedicated to improving youth civic engagement and voter turnout, interned for over 2 years in three departments, org. recognized as UN Youth Solution in 2020
registered over 100 students at my high school to vote
NHS officer, CSF member

expecting three strong letters of rec, I think my essays were fairly strong (tied my dad’s military service into my desire to pursue diplomacy for the why SFS essay)

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Great record. You’ve done what you can. Best of luck. You are worthy imho.

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If that’s your real name you may want to change it asap for privacy

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Are you being recruited as an athlete? That would make a significant difference in how you are viewed.

GPA is good (assuming 4.52 is actually weighted and 4.0 is UW), SAT is a little low for EA.

SFS is much more selective than general college. My opinion is that EA is a reach, RD Acceptance is a possibility, assuming you are not a recruited athlete.

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You’re a strong applicant, to be sure. You cite one set of SAT scores. Did you take the test more than once? Georgetown cares about test scores and expects to see all scores from all sittings. The score you shared is within the middle 50% range for all accepted students, but closer to the 25th percentile than the 75th.

Note that Georgetown tends to skim the strongest applicants from the EA pool and defer the rest for consideration with the RD applicants, so take that into consideration. All that noted, I still like your chances for ultimately getting a spot.

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SFS being more selective than Georgetown Arts and Sciences is a myth constantly repeated on CC and is incorrect. See below:

Georgetown’s School Specific Acceptance Rates and SAT range- Class of 2026

Georgetown College

Acceptance Rate: 11%

SAT Range: 1420-1560 (previous year’s figure)

Walsh School of Foreign Service

Acceptance Rate: 15%

SAT Range: 1460-1560 (previous year’s figure)

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And for EA:

Georgetown College accepted 9.3% of EA applicants while the School of Foreign Service accepted 12.1% and the McDonough School of Business admitted 9.9%.

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I’m not sure I’d say it’s a myth - SFS applicant pool tends to have slightly stronger SAT scores and GPAs than the overall college - the data you cite supports that with its SAT range.

The applicant pool for SFS is also much smaller than the overall college application pool - and there is some evidence to suggest that SFS applicants are a bit more self-selective due to applicants generally being aware of their intended professional outcomes in ways the college students are not.

It’s a similar position some colleges make in why their ED admit rates are higher than RD - the pools are generally stronger via self selection.

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What you are saying could be true but I see no evidence. And admitting a higher percentage of a smaller pool doesn’t really support your argument. In any case both programs are extremely selective.

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I second this, my D22 is in SFS and she had no intention of applying to college even if it meant a higher chance. It was SFS or nothing.

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And my d only applied to the college and had no interest in SFS. And she had friends apply only to the business school or school of nursing … none of this has anything to do with selectivity of these schools and there is no evidence SFS is more selective than the college - sFS admits a larger percentage from a smaller (though perhaps self selected a bit) pool than the college. In any case both are great and extremely selective.

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I did take the test twice, but my scores were within 10 - 20 points of each other both times, so I just referenced my highest scores in this post. I am hoping that coming from an underprivileged school that doesn’t offer any SAT prep and my strong AP scores will help compensate for it being on the lower end.

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