<p>Hi Guys, Chance me for Georgetown please?</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<p>International Student from Pakistan.
Not applying for aid
SAT I: 1410 - 750 CR, 660 M (retook in May, hopefully much better score)
GPA: not calculated at my school but if it were it'd be 3.87 UW
GCSEs: 11 A's
Class Rank: Again not calculated, per se. Was 8/176 in the GCSE results at my school. Definitely top 10% if not Top 5%.
My school sends a great deal of people to Ivies and other top universities each year. This year we had Princeton, Duke, Northwestern, Brown, Middlebury, amongst others. Last year, we had Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Penn, Dartmouth, Cornell, Chicago, Vanderbilt, etc.
Essay: I topped in my school in English Language, and I won the award for best essay writer so I think they'll be reasonably good, hopefully.
Recs: Will be very good, fingers crossed
I'm President of the Drama Club, Lead Role in the Play, done 3 years of debating, won numerous tournaments, shortlisted for national team, MUNs nationally and internationally, won the best english declamation speaker and parliamentary debator awards at school. I've been a regular freelancer for a national newspaper for the past year. Chief Editor of literary magazine.
on the school tennis team this year.</p>
<p>Do you really want to go to Georgetown or do you just want to see if you can get in? I only ask because of your username.</p>
<p>I think you have a pretty decent shot, but int’l acceptance patterns tend to be rather volatile.</p>
<p>I would really want to go!</p>
<p>Are my ECs good enough for Georgetown?</p>
<p>You will definitely get into Georgetown, they don’t place that much emphasis on test scores and for reassurance to you ALL of my friends (and I) were accepted. However the other schools “Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Penn, Dartmouth, Cornell, Chicago, Vanderbilt, etc.” require very good test scores so get them up to be competitive. Your ECs are good too, just make sure to expand on them well on the common app essays and give it a personal touch. Good luck</p>
<p>Whatervg, (again, great tag name) you obviously haven’t done your research or checked out CC. Kids with 700-800s on their SATs are getting rejected from Georgetown. Excuse Georgetown for accepting students with slightly lower test scores but who instead have incredible ECs, volunteer experience, etc.
Georgetown looks at kids holistically. Apparently you prefer kids who just get 2400s on their SATs. The Georgetown community is so diverse, which is what makes it so special, rather than the name brand schools which only feature socially awkward brainiacs.</p>
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LOL, I OTOH, do not see anything that stands out but you’ll have a decent chance.</p>
<p>Thank you for the chances! As far as volunteer work/community service/internships go,
I’ll be doing 2 this summer. One at a International Law think tank, and the other at a Micro-Finance NGO which helps rural and poor women start up small businesses. My essays will all have a communitarian tilt to them.</p>
<p>hey princeton2017! thanks for chancing me, yeah our stats look similar our sats are almost exactly the same. im not by any means an expert, but your ECs actually look good to me so you should have as good a shot as anyone.</p>
<p>and as to hoyagolfer, a kid from my school with a 2320 on his sats recently got rejected from gtown… he is lacking in EC’s and other “holistac” aspects of the application… so from my perspective that seems to be true.</p>
<p>Your ECs show passion. The centering around public speaking and literature will help because they’ll show that you’re (hopefully) not doing random ECs for the sake of a college admission board. The summer internships sound wonderful. Your GPA is quite high.</p>
<p>Hopefully you can score above a 710 on the math section of the SAT. Writing a strong, personal essay and having an amazing teacher recommendation is really important as well. Overall, I think you have a strong chance… but I don’t think anyone could say you will “definitely get in”.</p>
<p>Best of luck :)</p>
<p>Thanks! yeah, I pretty much pursued what I loved doing, EC wise. Reading, writing and debating are my true passions. I think that’ll come across in a forceful way in my essay. Fingers crossed.</p>