Chance Me for USC and Georgetown? Any help is appreciated! Thank you!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Gpa: UW 3.85, W 4.25 Rank 12/495
SAT: 2170
(Haven’t taken subjects yet)
I take alot of AP and honor classes. My senior course load is all honor classes except speech and debate (and if I take journalism senior year, that included)
All My AP tests taken so far: AP Physics, AP English Lit, AP World, AP US History

Speech and Debate: numerous tournament awards, top 12 in Prose at State competition(will aim for better coming year)
Most Improved Team Award(went from 50 speech points to 380+ speech points)
DECA- few tournament finalist awards
Inspire Leader
Chinese School: numerous volunteer hours over a span of 5 years, help coordinate many festivals
Selected For Girls State(could not actually go to the family issue, should I include still?)
Youth Group,
Founder/President of UNICEF Club, VP of European Club
Newspaper( Big chance will become Senior Editor of it next year, but its weird as school newspaper got cancelled my sophomore year, junior year I was a guest writer, so should I include it?)
NHS
Save The Family Volunteer, Many hours
Mayor’s Citizenship Award

Summer: Internship at ASU for biological physics, ALOT of chinese school activities, church trip to foreign country.

Race: Biracial (White and Asian)
Income Bracket: 40,000 (Just my mom)

I know I am not completely stellar. I’m probably pretty average, but I just want a good enough spark to get me in there. I know Georgetown is probably a huge reach. I’m scared to aim any higher than that. Please be honest, but don’t bully.

Other schools: In-state schools that I’m pretty secure in, George Washington University, Texas A and M.

I’m more career-focused than the name tbh. I want to end up becoming a forensics pathologist, which requires med school, so I don’t know if I should be tearing my hair out now…

Sorry for the bad format!

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@Igotbighair It’s so hard to determine who will get in and who won’t based on stats but my D got into both schools for Fall 2015 and her stats were 2050 SAT and 4.0 UW GPA, 4.65 W. She also took speech and debate her senior yr and it was her only non-AP class. USC doesn’t put a lot of weight on quantity of volunteer hours anymore. I know this to be a fact because I know the head of admissions for the athletic dept and she told me that EVERYONE has so many hours that it just doesn’t mean anything anymore. She equated it to “white noise”. She said as long as you do something for the community/world that is meaningful to you, that is more important than hours. I truly believe that the reason my D got into both of those schools, when up against so many kids with higher stats, was her essays and her interviews. The Georgetown interviewer was so impressed with my D that she told her she was her top female applicant in the SoCal area and would be conveying that to the admissions board. We were actually shocked that she got in because they “strongly suggest” that you take 3 SAT subject tests, but 2 are required. She only took 2 and we thought that would be a negative against her but it wasn’t. Take your time on your essays and get them read and edited lots of times! Don’t try to answer anything with what you think they want to hear. And be funny and humorous in those quick-answer section on the USC app because I think that helped my D too. She was just trying to be herself and not take it too seriously or stress out about saying the right thing. She got into USC Viterbi for Mech Engineering, UCLA same, and Georgetown for Government, among many other UC’s and Cali schools. She chose USC! I’d be happy to answer any questions you have during your application process…Good Luck!!

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@Igotbighair oh and she was rejected at the ivy’s…Harvard, Yale (although she made it past the ED round with a deferral) and non-ivy Stanford. I actually regret that she even applied to those without having much higher SATs but she thought she’d try. It just puts a LOT more pressure with more essays so I think you are correct to say you might not want to go higher than GT. (even though GT is just about an ivy!)