Chance Me SFS

Colleges and Universities A-Z Georgetown University
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I want to go to school for International Relations/Politics of some sort so Georgetown seems like the perfect fit with a dedicated school and being in DC. I know my class rank and GPA are a little low so just wondering if I have any chance?

SAT: 1470 (750/720)
SAT Subject: Taking In November expect 700+ on Math 2 and 750+ on US history
GPA (weighted): 96.12 with upward trend and all english and social studies exams 98+
GPA (unweighted): 94.5
Ranking: 82/510
I know this is low but my school doesn’t weight honors and AP’s very much 1.07 for AP’s and 1.04 for honors
APUSH-5 AP Comp-5 AP Chem-3
Senior yr: Accounting, AP Stats, Entrepreneurship, AP Lit, Business and Personal Law, Criminal Law, AP calc, AP Economics, AP Gov (Unfortunately AP Spanish didn’t fit my schedule otherwise I would have taken it)
Extracurricular:
Summer Camp Counselor: 40 hrs a week (Sr yr)
Martial Arts Instructor: 20 hrs a week during school yr (Sr yr)
Barn Manager 10 hrs a week (Fr, So,Jr yr)
National level Equestrian 40 hrs a week (Fr, So,Jr yr)
Model UN (Sr yr)
Masterminds (Sr yr)
Crossfit (All high school)
Meals on wheels (20 hrs)
Kicking for Miracles (Women and children’s hospital fundraiser)
Awards:
-AP Scholar
-Mastery Of Science
-Advanced Regents Diploma
-Gold Honor roll
-Multi time regional champion and national qualifier with arabian horses
Essay: Explains why I stopped riding horses and apparent sudden shift in passion and pretty emotional
Letters of recommendation: Should be good Pre-calc teacher who I had for two years and saw me work to go from a mediocre math student to top of the class and taking two AP maths this year. AP comp teacher who loved me and I was the only kid in the class to get a 5 on the AP exam and a 100 on the Common Core exam as well.
Additional Info: Caucasian, male, both parents went to cornell

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Georgetown, SFS specifically, like to see passion reflected in their applicant’s ECs and such, and I’m just not seeing it. You said you wanted to do IPOL/IR, but your ECs are all over the place and mostly concentrated during your senior year. That makes it very hard to figure out what you’re passionate about on the surface. Hopefully you can explain it more clearly in your essay, but it’s difficult for me to understand why IR. Ideally, you want strong ECs to make up for the lower-end GPA and SAT, so you may struggle in that sense. However, if your essay is as good as you say it is and it explains the rationale behind your ECs, that would help quite a bit. You said you wanted to take Spanish–how long have you taken it? SFS really likes to see foreign languages.