Chance me Georgetown EA 2020!

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Hi! I am a rising senior who visited Georgetown recently and loved it. I feel like I am a well rounded applicant, however my testing is slightly low and I was wondering how this would affect my chances. Here are my stats:

I go to a competitive public high school in the northeast. Usually sends 10ish kids to Ivies and a dozen more to top 20 schools. However, 3 applied to Georgetown last year and all were rejected (I think their ECs were weaker though)

GPA: UW 97.8/100, W 99.9
Rank: 8/539
Courseload: Most rigorous (1exception- took ap physics 1 instead of combined ap physics 1&2, if this matters). All honors fresh and sophomore and AP world as a sophomore (1st one allowed to take- got a 4)
This year took Physics 1, English Language and Composition, US History. I got a 4 on all three. Also took pre Calc honors, spanish 4 honors, Latin 4 university and chamber orchestra.
Senior Year courseload: AP Lit, AP macroeconomics, AP Calc BC, AP Bio, Latin 5 honors and chamber orchestra. I’ll have 1 more class but I don’t know what it will be yet because I had scheduling conflicts
Self-studying AP Psychology.
SAT: 2050 superscored. Considering enrolling in prep scholar to bring up 200 points. I have poor subject test scores (630, 590, 550) so I’m not sure if I should take them in October and send those hopefully better scores or take the SATs again and get that up in October and take subject tests in November and risk them not getting them my stronger scores for EA consideration. Ideas?

Awards: (nothing big but some good ones maybe)
-Published in local newspaper for article about accountability, honored by county board for article and given scholarship
-Selected for Area all-state Orchestra festivals 2013&2014, principal violist 2014
-Selected for All-County Orchestra 2010-2015, principal all years
-Harvard and Brandeis Book Awards
-English&music class awards 2013, social studies award 2014, music award 2015
-respect award 2013-2015

Extracurriculars:
-Yearbook Editor-in-Chief (12,11 staff member 9-10)
-Violist in highly regarded Youth Orchestra in my state- (performed in Carnegie, performing abroad next year, huge televised cancer fundraiser, other community performances) (10-12)
-Weekly volunteer at Physical therapy office, help around the clinic and shadow the therapists as well(have 350 hours, will continue until graduation) (10-12)
-Girl Scout since kindergarten- completed silver award and going for Gold- big big project, don’t want to go into it too much here
-Highly involved in Church- on music ministry (10-12), selected as youth representative on Parish Council (1 of 2 selected) (11-12), confirmation retreat organizer (12), possibly co-religious Ed instructor (12)
-Fiddle Club- president 12, vp 11, treasurer 10, member 9- toured abroad this year in Ireland, lots of community gigs and performances every year
-Recycling Club- vice president (hopefully) 12, vp 11, secretary 10, member 9

  • Rec Soccer- spring & fall, k-12

Summers:
2014- Attended NSLC health care and medicine conference; church camp counselor, also self-employed street musician to fundraise for trips abroad
2015- taking for credit online Harvard course in Neurobiology, church camp counselor, street musician again

Other:
Essays: already started, should be great
Recs: guidance counselor will be outstanding, latin teacher who had me all 4 years even more outstanding, other teacher probably an 8/10. Also submitting additional Rec from a physical therapist I shadow, should be pretty great too.

I will submit a music supplement.I play Viola which is somewhat unique and sometimes needed. It should be excellent, maybe a hook? Probably not haha.

I want to be a Human Science major and music minor.
No hooks (unless Viola counts…)

Also another note, my parents have gone through a really messy divorce over the last 5 years which involved me getting a legal advisor and going to court. I might mention this in the family section on common app BRIEFLY, also im sure my guidance counselor will touch on it a little in her letter of rec.

Feel free to chance me for my other schools! Northeastern EA, UPenn, Tufts, Brandeis, American, Ithaca College and SUNY Stony Brook.

Sorry if there are any mistakes because I’m on mobile. If you made it through this lengthy post I appreciate it so much. I will chance you back! Just leave me a link.
Thanks!!

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It looks like you will have a very strong application, You’ve clearly had a phenomenal high school career despite battling adversity and you should be proud of yourself for that.

It’s good that you’re taking a rigorous course load as long as you’ve been getting good grades (and it sounds like you have been based on GPA). This is probably the most important part of the application and yours is top-notch.

For testing, your scores are admittedly a little lower than Georgetown’s average. This won’t get you automatically rejected, though. If you think you would do better by re-taking, go for it, but remember that Georgetown is NOT score- choice. You need to send everything. Have you thought about taking the ACT?

Extracurriculars are very good, especially with leadership positions. Nothing to worry about there.

Summers also very strong. Sending a message that you have productive summers.

Essays and recs sound great! Always good to have a teacher and counselor who know you really well.

Unfortunately, there is never such a thing as a good chance at getting into a very selective school like Georgetown. I don’t think that anyone will have much stronger odds than you, but still, don’t count on it. Remember, you’re very qualified, but so are most other applicants, so if you don’t get in, don’t take it personally. That said, you will be one of Georgetown’s most qualified applicants. If you really want me to quantify it, maybe 30-40%? I’m not sure because it’s so arbitrary.

Your other schools, assuming you give your supplements full effort, etc.: Northeastern, very strong shot (80%?). Penn, again very selective so don’t take it personally if you don’t get in, but maybe 20-30%. Tufts, 60-70%. Brandeis, 80-90%. American, IC, and SUNY Stony Brook: Honestly I think you’re a lock for these. I’ll say 95% because I guess there’s always some bizarre chance that they could reject you but it seems really unlikely.

I hope this was helpful. I appreciate your offer to chance back. Here is the link to mine: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/georgetown-university/1796686-chance-me-georgetown-2020.html#latest

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@2016senior2020 you just made my day, thank you so much! I will go chance you now!

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@ptkid16 did you end up getting in??:slight_smile:

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After visiting another school one last time, I fell in love and applied ED. I was accepted there, so I withdrew my Georgetown RD application. @soccerlover678