Before anything: I am not a STEM oriented student. No engineering or computer science for me.
ACT: 34 Composite, 36 E 33 M 36 R 27 S
GPA: 4.5 W (3.89 UW including 9th) (4.0 UW 10th-12th)
Academic course load: 9 AP classes total. As close to strenuous a schedule as my school would permit.
AP: all 5’s on 5 tests so far. the remaining 4 i don’t know.
EC:
-i’m president and co-founder of a large political organization in my county and I have connections and involvement in various congressional campaigns.
-executive officer of a large volunteer club on campus
-elected as an executive officer (not president or vp) for my graduating class (served two years, elected twice)
-played in orchestra and wind ensemble, also did marching band. won many awards with the band. no individual recognition.
-organized several voting drives in my local area
-mock trial, moot court, debate, mun (3 years)
-took 2 college credit classes (alongside college students) at georgetown last summer
-interned at my area’s superior courthouse. served as a clerk
Weak points: few awards/recognition. asian male. middle-class income. no hardships. few noteworthy scholarships.
What are my chances? any replies would be *helpful. Thanks.
I know that Georgetown has a requirement of 3 subject tests. I HAVE taken three (USH, BIO M, M2) but I simply haven’t seen my scores yet.
You are a competitive applicant. Your stats are great and your ECs are pretty good. Write amazing essays, apply ED somewhere, and you could get accepted to any of these schools
Being an Asian male probably helps for applying to private schools if you’re going to be say a political science or linguistics major.
Maybe it does help, but from my own experience in seeing my friends’ rejections from Georgetown, I’ve noticed that a lot of asian males with outstanding academic records are overlooked. Georgetown seems to favor accepting students of color with slightly mediocre academic records and outstanding extracurriculars. The common argument for this is “affirmative action is harming students outside the focal point of perceived minorities in need of elevated education,” i.e. middle/upper income asians (and to a limited extent whites in a similar situation, without drenched backgrounds in higher education). These are subjective points, of course I have little to no statistics to back my claims. But my high school is around 80% asian (chinese mostly) and I know a lot of people who applied to GU with equal or superior records to mine and quite literally all were rejected.
Very solid stats and you are quite competitive. Here’s how I would chance:
Georgetown: Reach
Duke: Reach
Berkeley: Low reach
UCLA: Low reach
CMU: High match/low reach
Obviously all these schools are quite difficult to get into, which is why they are still all reaches, but I would say you are very competitive for them.